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Hillbilly Urbanism
Despite Brian O'Neill's best efforts, Pittsburgh isn't part of Appalachia. However, Pittsburgh is located in Appalachia. Confused? Don't be:Hardly any part of the U.S. typifies the concept of rural like Appalachia. Even the most outdated historical stereotypes persist: hillside shacks, impoverished children with no shoes, moonshine....[read more]
From Town to City: Can Grassroots Planning Facilitate The Transition?
Not long ago, Newton, County, Georgia, was classic rural America: a few small towns, some historic buildings, and a lot of farming. But the county has had the good (or bad, depending on your point of view) fortune to be 30 miles from the center of one of the world’s most rapidly expanding cities, Atlanta....[read more]
New HUD Grants Helps Communities In Pursuing Sustainability
This is exactly how the federal government should be supporting sustainability: helping communities who want to do the right thing for their environments, economies, and residents. Congress in its stupidity wisdom may have just used the federal budget to zero out the sustainability assistance program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development but, in what may be its last round of major grants for a good while, HUD yesterday awarded $97 million dollars for planning and other efforts in 27 regions and 29 communities across 32 states. The residents of those communities will be the better for it, and so will the planet.[read more]
A Guide to China’s Rising Urban Areas
Source: Demographia World Urban Areas: Population & Projections: 6th Edition. http://demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf I have a new piece up at NewGeography about China’s rising urban areas. Below is an excerpt from the introduction: From a Rural to Urban Dispersion in the Middle Kingdom China’s rise to economic prominence over...[read more]
STUDY: City Living = As Much CO2 As Rural Life
Via Good, Physorg reports on a recent paper: City dwellers produce as much CO2 as countryside people do: study:"Most previous studies have indicated that people in cities have a smaller carbon footprint than people who live in the country. By using more complex methods of analysis than in the past, scientists at Aalto University in...[read more]
Beyond the Rural-Urban Dichotomy
Most policies, plans and programmes coming from governments and development aid organizations across the world define their geographical areas of intervention in two single terms: urban or rural. In order to be able to make such distinction, traditional statistics and laws mark physical, economic and/or political limits. Typically, the...[read more]
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“I agree I think that the nature of human interaction and involvement depends on the nature of the actual facility itself. Getting people in and around fossil fuel burning power plants is seen as a security risk, but that still leaves many components of our infrastructure that could benefit from being noticed (and that citizens could benefit from noticing). I think of examples like John ...”
“I thinks it's provocative. In Florida, we were given tours of muncipal water treatment facilities as children, less so access to energy facilities. There is a cogeneration facility at MIT that sits comfortably in the urban context, as thousands pass by daily. But I'm always concerned that critical systems and humans should not mix for the most part. Educational programs may make the same point ...”