05:20 AM
Extracts of Local Distance: A Unique Take on Architectural Photography : Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multi-layered shapes. ...
Digital Urban
03:50 AM
Skopje 2014 Visualisation : The clip below details a visualisation of municipality of Skopje (Macedonia) in 2014. The St. ...
Digital Urban
01:50 AM
Canadian Gov moves to buy Ambassador Bridge from Moroun : The government of Canada has initiated talks to purchase the Ambassador Bridge, the major trucking route between Canada and the US .Advertisement:read more ...
Toll Roads News
12:50 AM
The Antiplanner’s Library: The U.K. Has Suburbs Too : Americans moved to the suburbs because of interstate highways. Or they moved to the suburbs because of federal housing policies. ...
The Antiplanner
Feb 8
Court Finds that Dominant Use of Proposed Project is for Senior Housing and Not Education : Regis College made plans to extend its campus by adding a facility for senior citizens which was claimed to further the College’s goal of intergenerational and life-long learning. ...
Law of the Land
Feb 8
Creating “A Better Tomorrow” in America with Sustainable Transportation : Check out this video from America 2050, as part of its “A Better Tomorrow” project to create a “positive vision for the future of America built around investments in sustainable transportation and liv ...
The City Fix
Feb 8
New exec-director sought by Illinois Tollway (PERSONNEL) : Illinois State Toll Highway Administration, commonly known as the Illinois Tollway, is conducting a recruitment for a new executive-director (ED). ...
Toll Roads News
Feb 8
Flux-us! Flux-you! Flux-me! : (Homeaway by Terreform 1. Photographer unknown. Source.)The fabulous Junk Jet has just released their third issue, and it sounds amazing. ...
Pruned
Feb 8
Bowling + live music + local + green : That essentially captures what New York’s Brooklyn Bowl is all about. Bowling. Robert Putnam’s best-seller lamented that the social capital in the U.S. ...
CoolTown Studios
Feb 8
About those EV1 charging stations : Today's WSJ includes "The U.S. Needs an Industrial Policy" by former Shell Oil pres John Hofmeister. Well, no. It's about the last thing anybody "needs". ...
Peter Gordon's Blog
Feb 8
Exxon and the Climate Fight : A British newspaper reports that oil companies direct money to climate skeptics. ...
Dot Earth
Feb 8
Fair Funding for Stormwater Cleanup : It's a huge challenge to clean up the nasty water that gushes through gutters and into Washington's rivers and bays. ...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Feb 8
What Should Happen at Myrtle Avenue’s New Plaza? The Public Weighs In : A two-block pedestrian plaza is coming to Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill, replacing an underused service road between Grand Avenue and Emerson Place. ...
Streetsblog
Feb 8
Reality Check on Old Ice, Climate and CO2 : An expert on glaciers and climate explains how ice records relate to global warming. ...
Dot Earth
Feb 8
A Vow to ‘Bring Republicans to the Table’ for a New Transport Bill : Despite Senate Democratic efforts to move quickly on a new jobs bill that includes infrastructure investment and takes steps towards solving the nation's transportation financing dilemma, Congress has ...
Streetsblog
Feb 8
Local Governments Address Climate Change : The Government Law Center has been examining the role of state and local governments in addressing various aspected of climate change mitigation and greenhouse gas reduction.  Below are links to two r ...
Law of the Land
Feb 8
Fewer Cars, Safer Mortgages : Interesting.  The Journal of Sustainable Real Estate recently accepted a paper showing that, after controlling for incomes, neighborhoods with low car ownership have fewer defaults on mortgages.  NR ...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Feb 8
Ryan Streeter Making Poverty History: A Short History : Former chief economist of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development David Henderson coined the appellation, “Global Salvationism,” to describe the kind of behavior one witnesses at gat ...
Newgeography.com
Feb 8
Carfree Design Manual : As planners, one of our roles is to help stretch the scope of what is considered possible. ...
Planetizen Interchange
Feb 8
Mionske: Vulnerable User Laws a First Step Toward True Traffic Justice : In the second installment of his two-part "traffic injustice" series (here's part one), cycling attorney Bob Mionske covers a lot of ground. ...
Streetsblog
Feb 8
Where Will We All Park? A Slightly Premature Case Study of Hoboken, New Jersey : Hoboken, New Jersey's Department of Transportation and Parking Director Ian Sacs offers this profile of his city and discusses how the dense but car-enamored city is trying to tackle the contemporary ...
Planetizen Op-Eds
Feb 8
Trading Places : We’ve highlighted a couple of explanations of how cap and trade works. ...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Feb 8
Sponsors Sold on Health, Economic Benefits of Minneapolis Bike-Share : Don't count out Boston just yet, but it looks like Minneapolis may be the first American city out of the gate with a public bicycle system of 1,000 bikes or more. ...
Streetsblog
Feb 8
Strong Towns: If a Little Is Good, More Must Be Better : Guest post by Charles Marohn There is no question that the greatest force that shapes the form of American cities is transportation. ...
The Antiplanner
Feb 8
Toward the city come hills : [Image: Mudslides strike Los Angeles; photo by Gary Friedman for the L.A. ...
Bldgblog
Feb 8
Toward the city come hills : [Image: Mudslides strike Los Angeles; photo by Gary Friedman for the L.A. ...
BLDGBLOG
Feb 8
New Books Depict Car Culture at a Turning Point : Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster By Paul Ingrassia Random House, 306 pages, $32 Carjacked: The Culture of the Au ...
Planetizen Interchange
Feb 8
This Week: East Coast Greenway, East Side SBS, and EVs : Another East Side community board discusses Select Bus Service this week. ...
Streetsblog
Feb 8
The End of the Road for Cul-de-Sacs? : Today on the Streetsblog Network, Connecticut Smart Growth asks for a reconsideration of the cul-de-sac. ...
Streetsblog
Feb 8
Guest Blogger Bill Kelly: Whither Weatherization? : The appropriation of $5 billion in the stimulus bill for the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), about 20 times what had usually been appropriated, held promise that significant resources might f ...
NHC Open House Blog
Feb 8
DOT a leader in Open Gov : On December 8, 2009, President Obama issued the directive for his Open Government Initiative (OGI). ...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
Feb 8
Format and Reinstall : [Image: The opening ceremony of the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics; photographer unknown].A comment from Alexander Trevi on a recent post pointed our attention to the final paragraph of an article by ...
Bldgblog
Feb 8
Format and Reinstall : [Image: The opening ceremony of the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics; photographer unknown].A comment from Alexander Trevi on a recent post pointed our attention to the final paragraph of an article by ...
BLDGBLOG
Feb 8
Today’s Headlines : CompStat Critique Says Not All Crimes Make the Cut (NYT 1, 2) Rumor Mill at Full Tilt Over Supposed Paterson "Bombshell" (TBI via Gothamist) Bloomberg Says MTA Retirees Should Also Lose M ...
Streetsblog
Feb 8
Processing: A 3D City in One Minute : We have featured the students work as part of the The Master of Advanced Studies in CAAD at ETH in Zurich quite a lot recently and we are quite fastidious as to what goes on the blog. ...
Digital Urban
Feb 8
Federal Highways and Urban Form : Note: This is the first of what may become a series of interblog debates between the Antiplanner and Charles Marohn of the Strong Towns Blog. ...
The Antiplanner
Feb 7
Second Circuit Finds Adult Use Ordinance Was Not Void For Vagueness : In this Second Circuit decision the Defendants-Appellants appeal from a previous order form the U.S. ...
Law of the Land
Feb 7
The Hotel Room That Saved Some Trees : Last Wednesday afternoon, I arrived in Seattle and checked into a room on the 16th floor of the Hyatt At Olive 8 hotel and began preparing to moderate a panel the next day on transferrable development ...
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
Feb 7
The Hotel Room That Saved Some Trees : Last Wednesday afternoon, I arrived in Seattle and checked into a room on the 16th floor of the Hyatt At Olive 8 hotel and began preparing to moderate a panel the next day on transferrable development ...
California Planning & Development Report
Feb 7
Presidio Parkway WAS discussed for tolling but pols said taxpayer must carry (CORRECTION) : We wrote January 26 that toll financing was never discussed for the $1,045m Presideo Parkway, one of the approaches to the Golden Gate Bridge. ...
Toll Roads News
Feb 7
Welcome to Citiwire.net — February 7, 2010 : Welcome to Citiwire.net! ...
Citiwire.net
Feb 7
Cities Look Abroad to Prosper at Home : For Release Sunday, February 7, 2010 © 2010 Washington Post Writers Group Are we ready to retire the old bugaboo that any American mayor better think twice before visiting a foreign city — that the p ...
Citiwire.net
Feb 7
Ongoing Drag: Commercial Real Estate : For Release Monday, February 8, 2010 Citiwire.net Here’s the good news: The economy may be turning the corner thanks to a heavy dose of government stimulus. And since March stock and ...
Citiwire.net
Feb 7
Are Federal Agencies Finally On The Same Page? : There's an old joke that the locals fear more than a federal government in disarray is a federal government that has its act together. Well, now the joke's being put to the test. read more ...
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
Feb 7
Are Federal Agencies Finally On The Same Page? : There's an old joke that the locals fear more than a federal government in disarray is a federal government that has its act together. Well, now the joke's being put to the test. read more ...
California Planning & Development Report
Feb 7
Why not rail? :   When faced with the costs and logistics of rail, planners and city officials increasingly seem to favor Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), a trend likely to continue through the current recession.  But even ...
Planetizen Interchange
Feb 7
Igneous Hydrology: Landscapes on Demand : [Image: "Scene J3" from Snow Management by Jules Spinatsch, courtesy of the Prix Prictet].I was reminded, via an old post on Pruned, of an amazing series of photographs by Jules Spinatsc ...
Bldgblog
Feb 7
The Long River : [Image: "Chongqing XI" by Nadav Kander, winner of the 2009 Prix Pictet; courtesy of the Prix Pictet].Speaking of the Prix Pictet, the winner of the 2009 prize was Nadav Kander for his project Yangt ...
Bldgblog
Feb 7
The Long River : [Image: "Chongqing XI" by Nadav Kander, winner of the 2009 Prix Pictet; courtesy of the Prix Pictet].Speaking of the Prix Pictet, the winner of the 2009 prize was Nadav Kander for his project Yangt ...
BLDGBLOG
Feb 7
Igneous Hydrology: Landscapes on Demand : [Image: "Scene J3" from Snow Management by Jules Spinatsch, courtesy of the Prix Prictet].I was reminded, via an old post on Pruned, of an amazing series of photographs by Jules Spinatsc ...
BLDGBLOG
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