Topic – Walkable Urbanism

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  ‘Shared Space’ challenges the sidewalk standard

  Reduces the dominance of cars

  Matt Dietrichson, Jan 27, 12.

  Shared Space streets can reduce the dominance of cars by getting people and vehicles to share the road space

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  Peter Brown

  Development Opportunity Areas

  Director, Better Houston / Former Houston City Council Member, Jan 17, 12.

  Houston's Development Opportunity Areas

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  Mid rise development on the rise in Houston in 2012

  Young pros seek luxury rentals

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Jan 11, 12.

  Developers are predicting and working on a mid rise development boom in Houston in 2012 with projects spread around the urban core of the Houston region.

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  Ray LaHood

  Hou rail means jobs, options

  U.S. Secretary of Transportation , Nov 29, 11.

  Houston light rail will mean more transportation options & jobs

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  Louise A. Mozingo

  End office sprawl now

  Professor of landscape architecture & environmental planning / University of California, Berkeley, and author, Nov 29, 11.

  To rethink sprawl, start with offices

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  Raj Mankad

  Is ND the real sustainability?

  Editor – Cite Magazine, Nov 29, 11.

  Is LEED - ND sustainability we can believe in?

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  Galveston City Council votes against mixed use

  May surrender recovery funds

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Nov 15, 11.

  Galveston narrowly voted, over Mayor Jaworski's objection, to remove the mixed income part of a public housing recovery project, endangering $25m in funding.

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  UC Davis opens nation’s largest ‘zero net energy’ development

  Reduced use & onsite energy

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Nov 09, 11.

  The University of California - Davis has opened the nation's largest 'zero net energy' development by reducing energy use by 50% and providing solar energy.

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  Capping freeways to undo harms of 1960s freeway bing

  Parks connecting neighborhoods

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Nov 09, 11.

  Cities across the US are considering capping over sunken freeways to reconnect neighborhood and provide public space and parks to undo mistakes of the past.

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  Siting of federal offices to prefer transit, mixed use, walkable areas

  Seeking location efficiency

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Nov 08, 11.

  The GSA Public Buildings Service is working to more efficiently site federal offices near transit and walkable amenities, while more efficiently using space.

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