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14 Days and Counting . . .

February 3, 2012 by Robert Kirkman
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I have been continuing to read Wendy Brown's book, Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs, though sporadically. My train commute really isn't all that long, and I've had many, many other things to read in the mean time.I have small addition to my review-in-progress of the book, which merges with the theme from my last post: skepticism.... [read more]

From Events in the Gents to Pop Up People

February 2, 2012 by julian dobson
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You can imagine how people reacted. The idea of 'events in the gents' doesn't really bear thinking about.Yet the anarchic enthusiasm of a bunch of people in Hackney to bring their local high street back to life says something about the way people care about their communities - even to the point of breaking into a boarded-up public toilet... [read more]

The environmental building blocks of urban happiness

February 2, 2012 by Kaid Benfield
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  As regular readers may remember, I am fascinated by the relationship of our cities, and the way they are configured, to our mental and emotional well-being.  The relationship of urban form to physical health is finally getting some of the attention it deserves, but how the shape of our communities and neighborhoods affects... [read more]

Reimagining Model Cities

February 1, 2012 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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During last week’s Transforming Transportation conference, Jaime Lerner expressed that one of the greatest compliments he has ever received was from his driver who told him that Curitiba looked exactly like the architectural model Lerner was carrying with him at the time. [read more]

How Formula One Made Your Car More Sustainable

January 31, 2012 by Bob Leonard
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Read about how yesterdays innovations pioneered in Formula One are applied in your car, today. Do you think NASCAR has the same effect? [read more]

Why the grid is a great asset to our cities

January 30, 2012 by Paul Knight
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I have heard many criticisms about the grid plan–It’s boring, It’s unnatural, et cetera. Having happily visited and lived within gridded towns and cities I have wondered why these perceptions exist. What is so wrong with straight streets? Following, I address some common fallacies in a defense for the grid. [read more]

Layering Walkable Urbanism via Photoshop and Pompeii

January 30, 2012 by Chuck Wolfe
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Welcome to a new orientation towards city ruins—where Photoshop and urbanism have something in common—as shown in the accompanying image of the archaeological site of Pompeii. Here, both software and excavated city feature layers of perception.First, the original photograph blends with four Photoshop “adjustment layers”, including... [read more]

Observations By Bicycle

January 29, 2012 by Kate Gallery
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A wonderful piece for those of who get to commute by bicycle. Really captures the essence of what it's about! [read more]

Is your state a Talent Migration Loser?

January 25, 2012 by Jim Russell
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If people vote with their feet, then Texas is a loser ... in the world of higher education. A journalist for the Washington Post crunched the numbers of the high school graduate college migration. The worst "brain drain" is in New Jersey. Texas is a distant second.There are a bunch of tasty data morsels in this blog post. There's a link... [read more]

Does Car + Bike = A Good Thing?

January 24, 2012 by Patrick Lydon
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Besides gaining ultra-buff legs, many ‘part-time’ bike commuters end up with an extra  $12,400 at the end of the year. Earlier this month, I wrote a piece about how Rush Hour can Save you Money, it compared a typical Silicon Valley commute using a car, and the same commute using a bicycle. At the end of the article, a breakdown of... [read more]

Is Europe is more naturally sustainable than America?

January 24, 2012 by Tyler Caine
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Do European cities have a more natural predisposition towards sustainability than American ones? Is age the only reason? [read more]

How Citizen Mapmakers are Changing the Story of our Cities

January 19, 2012 by This Big City
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We see them every day, popping up on our Twitter feeds, filtered through blogs, or even scattered throughout the New York Times: maps portraying not the usual locations or destinations, but data. From people’s kisses in Toronto, to the concentration of pizza joints in New York, to the number of women who ride... [read more]