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Retrofitting suburbia
Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots...
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Open street map
The U.S. OpenStreetMap community gathered in San Francisco a few weeks ago for its annual conference, the State of the Map. The loose citizen-cartography collective has now been incrementally mapping...
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Habitats for Humans, The paradox of urban perfection
We can’t help ourselves – when we see something unattractive in our cities we want it gone – it must be made more beautiful / more contextually sensitive / newer / cleaner. But what happens when we...
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New Suburbanism: Reinventing Inner-Ring Suburbs
As inner-ring suburbs in the United States become denser, demand for access to nearby walkable urban environments is rising. Residents are looking for shorter driving distances to commercial, cultural,...
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What is Placemaking?
“’Placemaking’ is both an overarching idea and a hands-on tool for improving a neighborhood, city or region. It has the potential to be one of the most transformative ideas of this century.”...
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“The real pollution from the automobile is architectural.”
via: thisbigcity Tagged: cars, Cities, planning, TRANSPORTATION, urbanism
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Is Suburban Sprawl on Its Way Back?
THIRTY miles from downtown Minneapolis is the small city of Otsego, defined by its proximity to two highways and its investment in two wastewater treatment plants. Its one grocery store is a...
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The City Social: Why Urbanism Needs To Return To Observation
I have to admit that, as a planner, there are times that I get whisked away by the elegance of drawings and the process of making them, and there are times that I feel like designers are the leaders of...
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Jeff Speck: The walkable city
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car — which he calls “a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic...
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Isabelle Anguelovsky: National Research Prize for Young Talent
We would like to congratulate our faculty member Isabelle Anguelovsky who received the National Research Prize for Young Talent, awarded by the Generalitat of Catalunya and the Catalan Foundation for...
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Retrofitting suburbia
Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots...
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Open street map
The U.S. OpenStreetMap community gathered in San Francisco a few weeks ago for its annual conference, the State of the Map. The loose citizen-cartography collective has now been incrementally mapping...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Habitats for Humans, The paradox of urban perfection
We can’t help ourselves – when we see something unattractive in our cities we want it gone – it must be made more beautiful / more contextually sensitive / newer / cleaner. But what happens when we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Suburbanism: Reinventing Inner-Ring Suburbs
As inner-ring suburbs in the United States become denser, demand for access to nearby walkable urban environments is rising. Residents are looking for shorter driving distances to commercial, cultural,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is Placemaking?
“’Placemaking’ is both an overarching idea and a hands-on tool for improving a neighborhood, city or region. It has the potential to be one of the most transformative ideas of this century.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The City Social: Why Urbanism Needs To Return To Observation
I have to admit that, as a planner, there are times that I get whisked away by the elegance of drawings and the process of making them, and there are times that I feel like designers are the leaders of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jeff Speck: The walkable city
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car — which he calls “a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic...
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