Topic – Urban Planning
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Traffic deaths down due to gas prices?
Americans drive less, slower
Traffic fatality rates in the U.S. have dropped dramatically in 2008, perhaps because drivers were driving less and slowing down…
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Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning from Sustainable Communities in Australia
Island Press (2008)
In his recent book, Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning from Sustainable Communities in Australia, sustainability scholar Timothy Beatley – Heinz…
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Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Island Press (2008)
Half the world’s population is now living in cities that in 20 years’ time are expected to hold approximately 5…
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Mixed-Use group to meet Jan 14
RichmondRail.org on the case
RichmondRail.org, a coalition dedicated to transit and neighborhoods on the west side of the University Line light rail alignment, has…
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Obama well-acquainted with the work of Jane Jacobs
Death and Life of Cities
Obama has read The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and launched into a discussion of the relationship between cities and suburbs.
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Decoding the Mediterranean town
Recent information reveals that old Mediterranean towns were built in an emergent fashion, rather than as the result of large-scale…
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Chinese eco-city stalls
Plans to build Dongtan, an eco-city near Shanghai, have stalled after the 2006 arrest of Shanghai’s mayor on fraud charges,…
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Buffalo looks to adopt smart planning code
The City of Buffalo must reform its zoning code to foster economic development, according to this opinion piece written by…
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95% of population lives on 10% of land
A new global map released by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre reveals that 95% of the world’s population lives…
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