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On Saturday, I posted an article about the regulatory effectiveness of the traffic police in Beijing and mentioned the new auto regulations. I now have a few English-language articles to link to and they'll explain the regulations better than I have.
investing in sustainability
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Jeff McIntire-Strasburg is the founder and editor of sustainablog.
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Hassan Arif is a research associate at the Urban and Community Studies Institute at the University of New Brunswick. He is currently completing his PhD at the University of New Brunswick in urban sociology. He is also a columnist for the Telegraph Journal.
Hassan can be reached at arif.telegraphjournal@gmail.com.
Urbanism Speakeasy is a podcast with a particular focus on human-scale design. We love streets and places designed for people, regardless of how they happen to travel. No advanced technical degrees or silver spoons required on this show. Our primary goal is to share technical information and trends in ordinary language.
The show is hosted exclusively by Sustainable Cities Collective. For more information about the show and its companion blog, please visit UrbanismSpeakeasy.com.
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Urbanism Speakeasy is a podcast with a particular focus on human-scale design. We love streets and places designed for people, regardless of how they happen to travel. No advanced technical degrees or silver spoons required on this show. Our primary goal is to share technical information and trends in ordinary language.
The show is hosted exclusively by Sustainable Cities Collective. For more information about the show and its companion blog, please visit UrbanismSpeakeasy.com.
Kathryn Gray is the coordinator of Transportation for Michigan, a coalition of Michigan communities working to make their surroundings more livable. Kathryn has studied social relations, policy, public affairs, and public administration. At Transportation for Michigan, Kathryn's eyes are focused on 4 major areas - funding reform, complete streets, regional transit, and rail.
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Like you, Andy wants to be safe while walking, biking, or driving. He's a plangineer encouraging communities to reclaim their streets. This comes in the form of writing, speaking, and podcasting.
urbanism without effort?
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Charles R. Wolfe, M.R.P., J.D. is an attorney in Seattle, where he focuses on land use and environmental law and permitting, including the use of innovative land use regulatory tools and sustainable development techniques on behalf of both the private and public sectors and the successful redevelopment of infill properties under federal, state and local regulatory regimes. He is an ...
Green Lake Park, Seattle
In 1903, landscape architect John Charles Olmsted wrote that “Seattle possesses extraordinary landscape advantages in having a great abundance and variety of water views and views of wooded hills and distant mountains and snow-capped peaks. I do not know of any place where the natural advantages for parks are better than here.
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THE GRID began in 2010 with Renée van Staveren, the Founder of Global Site Plans, blogging about branding, social media, content, and more – all related to environmental designers. Since its inception, the blog has grown to run weekly. Every weekday of the month The Grid is your destination for blogs related to architecture, engineering, environmental non-profits, landscape architecture, ...
biking in Detroit
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THE GRID began in 2010 with Renée van Staveren, the Founder of Global Site Plans, blogging about branding, social media, content, and more – all related to environmental designers. Since its inception, the blog has grown to run weekly. Every weekday of the month The Grid is your destination for blogs related to architecture, engineering, environmental non-profits, landscape architecture, ...
public-private partnership
Last week I had the pleasure of being in Boston for an afternoon discussion among park advocates talking about public-private partnerships (P3s). The meeting took place during a two day visit of the City Parks Alliance board, of which I am a member, and on a couple of spring days with the parks so full of blooming tulips and blossom-laden cherry trees that even the tourism office couldn’t have done a better job of producing.
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City Parks Blog is a joint effort of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land and the City Parks Alliance to chronicle the news and issues of the urban park movement.The Center for City Park Excellence, a division of The Trust for Public Land, works to make cities more successful through the innovative renewal and creation of parks for their social, ecological and ...
wilderness amid industry
boulevards in Paris
This image is borrowed from the Boulevard Temple daguerreotypes, taken in 1838 by Daguerre. It is the world’s oldest known photograph, depicting people and street trees in Paris at that time.
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