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Street Art for Redevelopment in Miami
A walk through Wynwood, a neighborhood north of downtown Miami, brings an encounter with two-dimensional fangy creatures that transform the physical and social landscape of this once-industrial zone into a spray-painted cultural destination.Wynwood has become the epicenter of Miami’s artistic rebirth. Over the past decade, Art Basel... [read more]
Integrating Transportation and Culture in Nice
I was recently lucky enough to spend some time in Nice, on the Cote D'Azur in the South of France, and was blown away by the way in which this punchy medium-sized city had come on in leaps and bounds in terms of improving its urban realm. I was last there some 7 years ago when traffic choked the upper half of the city whilst... [read more]
Blink and You Will Miss These Urban Memes
Street art can be elegant, enigmatic, or just plain goofy. In a new addition to our series of posts on how the built environment can be transformed through new forms of “rebel” or street sports, games, and art work, here are a few new “memes” worth mulling over. Perhaps the urban form of flash-in-the pan Internet... [read more]
How transportation can contribute to community building
Project for Public Spaces Director of Transportation Initiatives Gary Toth recently spoke at the Complete Streets Forumin Toronto, Ontario, about the role of transportation alternatives and complete streets in communities and community building.In his speech, posted below, Toth explains that complete streets are to be welcoming... [read more]
It’s a Good Week to be a Bicyclist
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who prefers to travel around on two wheels, this is a very good week to be you! No matter your reason for riding, there’s something interesting happening in the next few days. Biking is a great way to experience great places: it gets us out in the open air, moving at a speed that allows us to... [read more]
Shipping container "cities" bring creative, funky approach to green construction
This started out as an article on prefabricated modular housing, which can bring the construction price of new homes down considerably and lends itself well to use of green materials and straightforward replication. There’s a multi-part series on green prefab construction, including the history and evolution of the industry... [read more]
Eating in the City: San Francisco's Food Truck Movement
There were a few things FCT team member Gareth Pearson knew he wanted to see during his recent visit to San Francisco. Food trucks, parklets, and some urban farming projects. He thought he would have to hunt them down, but was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon them by chance. Here he shares the first of a few highlights from his... [read more]
Great city characteristics make us happier. Unless they don't.
I’ve been looking at some research reports, and confirming that some of the qualities associated with great urbanism – good public transit; easy access to cultural activities, recreation and shops; connectedness – are associated positively with human happiness. I first reported (“The Environmental Building Blocks of... [read more]
Future Cities: Imagining, Planning, and Bringing them to Life
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The concept or idea of a New or Future City can be unsettling, perhaps even unappealing. One begins to imagine Koolhaas’s description of the Generic City, “a city of 15 million inhabitants, in or near the tropics, with high-rise apartments, low rise slums and post modern architecture by unknown 100-strong practices.” [read more]
Russian Crowdsourcing Platforms aim to Solve Local Urban Problems
Solving problems at the local level, the kind encountered by inhabitants of big cities and regional centers, is becoming more and more feasible thanks to projects based on crowdsourcing technology. Crowdsourcing is getting groups of people involved in the discussion and resolution of all sorts of different problems, ranging from... [read more]
China’s Urbanites Take to the Internet in Droves [Infographic]
The good people over at Statista provided us with yet another excellent China infographic, this time about the country’s huge online population. Already, 1 in 5 worldwide internet users is Chinese, yet still less than half of the country’s population is online. Most of those are people living in China’s urban areas, accounting for 73.5%... [read more]
Four Ideas to Lead Cities Into The Future [Video]
The mayor of Rio shares his insight into what can make the city of the future sustainable. Cool! [read more]
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Transformation Through Technology: Delivering Better Public Services
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Webinar: ISO 20121 - Sustainability & Event Management
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Sustainability and Affordable Housing: an Interactive Charrette
When: Sat, 2012-06-02 11:00
Tourism and Sustainable Futures: Beyond 2015
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Public Sector Leadership: driving cultural change
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Youth Policy Summit on Urban Sustainability at UC Denver
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“I don't walk by choice. My vision forced me to give up my car years ago. I won't lie, I miss being able to drive. I hate the bus, though Santa Clara's VTA is one of the best systems in the country. But I am able to get around. And I walk to shop, sometimes as far as 3 miles away. Sometimes I take the bus back, sometimes I just walk back. This changes ...”