03:20 PM
NYC: NYPD Bike Patrol: It’s Officially a Trend : After two readers sent us pictures of bike cops in March, we promised to give a Streetfilms T-shirt to the person who sent us a third pic....
Streetsblog
02:35 PM
The Gas Age, Circa 1986 : A look at the decades-old natural gas predictions of an energy analyst with extraordinary foresight....
Dot Earth
01:11 PM
Obscura Day in New York 2012 : A couple of months ago, we spoke with Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura, about curiosity, exploration and the compiling of a ”collaborative compendium of amazing places that aren’t found i...
Urban Omnibus
01:05 PM
NYC: How Bike-Share Stations Stack Up Against Other Curb Consumers : Compared to other things eating up parking spaces -- new curb cuts, parking placards -- bike-share will be tiny....
Streetsblog
11:32 AM
A Free Range Life : Some may have never heard of the term exurbia before now....
Newgeography.com
11:26 AM
Making Buildings Work: the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center : Between 2002 and 2010, the United States suffered a 25 percent reduction in the number of manufacturing jobs....
Urban Omnibus
10:35 AM
Obama Administration's Safety Data Initiative challenges app developers : By US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and US Chief Technology Officer Todd Park,cross-posted courtesy of the White House Office of Science and Techno...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
10:35 AM
Does “BC” Mean “Bans Clotheslines”? : Xiaozhuli, FlickrBritish Columbia prides itself on a commitment to renewable energy....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
10:34 AM
Arby's building gets rock-star treatment : The old Arby's building, on Gay Street, is slated for a redevelopment that will include retail space and nine luxury apartments. In the meantime, the building is apparently moonlighting as a studio f...
Property Scope
10:05 AM
NYC: The Spatial Payoff of NYC Bike-Share : The curb space taken up by five standard parallel parking spots can accommodate 39 bike-share docks....
Streetsblog
09:58 AM
Scott West Market Square update : Mike Gibson has an update about various Scott and Bernadette West-related ventures on Market Square, in this week's issue of the Metro Pulse. Among other things, the article touches on Scruffy City H...
Property Scope
08:35 AM
NYC: Traffic Pricing Is Evolving. Can Its Opponents? : “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones,” wrote John Maynard Keynes in his ground-breaking 1935 treatise, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.”...
Streetsblog
07:50 AM
FAA protects air passengers and crew with strong stance against laser strikes : To mark National Transportation Week, we've been asking readers to think about safety....
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06:20 AM
A Yankee Ballpark for the Locals : It’s not often that works of landscape architecture make it on to the front page of The New York Times, even if they aren’t described as such. In April, that paper ran a story about...
ASLA.org - The Dirt
06:20 AM
NYC: Today’s Headlines : De Blasio Comes Out Against Parking Meter Privatization and Rate Increases (WSJ) Big Upgrades on Table For Hudson River Greenway in Upper Manhattan (DNAinfo) Sadik-Khan Visits Site of Fatal Staten Isl...
Streetsblog
06:16 AM
Ad firm signs lease for Old City rehab : From the KNS: One Old City landlord has inked its first lease deal. Advertising agency Shelton Group has signed on for 6,000 square feet at 111 E....
Property Scope
06:05 AM
NY Appellate Court Finds Town’s Denial of Special Use Permit is Arbitrary and Capricious : Petitioners applied to the town board for a special use permit to construct a two-story apartment building in the town of West Seneca.  Following a denial, petitioners brought an Article 78 action and...
Law of the Land
06:05 AM
WI Appeals Court Finds Enforcement of an Ordinance Later Found to be Unconstitutional Does Not, Without a Showing of Causation, create an Actionable Takings Claim : Appellant, a scrap metal recycling business, operated lawfully in a commercial zone in Sheboygan. Over the years, the business expanded and began to resemble a junkyard....
Law of the Land
06:05 AM
VT Supreme Court Holds Public Service Board is Trier of Fact in Determining Whether to Grant a Certificate of Public Good for Solar Energy Farm : Appellee is attempting to construct a solar energy farm in Vermont an applied for a certificate of public good.  The Public Service board, after evaluating evidence presented to it by the Proposal for...
Law of the Land
05:47 AM
Wednesday briefing : Woman, 78, about to lose place she's called home for 56 years. KNS Silver Spoon Cafe looking for new location. KNS Mixed-use project planned for Nashville's 12South neighborhood....
Property Scope
04:50 AM
Island Press Staff Picks : This week’s staff pick is from Island Press’s publicity manager, Jaime Jennings. She writes: In my almost six years at Island Press, I’ve had the opportunity to work on more than 90 titles ranging fro...
Eco-Compass
03:00 AM
Mailbag: LID and NU : We received this email a few weeks ago and I wanted to take the time to answer it here. Charles, I’d like your opinion on what seems to be a discord between practitioners and advocates o...
Strong Towns
12:20 AM
Obama Plays Hardball with California : The Obama administration is threatening to take back the $3.3 billion high-speed rail grant to California if the state legislature fails to approve the state’s high-speed rail plan by the end of June....
The Antiplanner
May 15
Exit truck road opened by MDOT at Ambassador Bridge Gateway plaza : 2012-05-15: Michigan state officials celebrated today opening of a two lane truck road that provides a route inside the plaza area that allows trucks from Canada using the Ambassador Bridge to get ont...
Toll Roads News
May 15
ONE Prize: Blight to Might : Terreform ONE, a Brooklyn-based, ecological design-minded think tank led by innovator Mitchell Joachim, announced its call for entries for the third annual ONE Prize competition. This year’s competiti...
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 15
Rupert Murdoch REMINISCENCES : A bunch of British Labour Party parliamentarians recently declared Rupert Murdoch "not a fit person to exercise stewardship of a major international company." Everyone who knew him back in the mid-196...
Toll Roads News
May 15
Downeaster expansion brings jobs, more transportation options to New England : As Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph Szabo wrote in this blog last Saturday, “if we continue strengthening passenger rail service, even more people will choose it.” Under President Obama’s leaders...
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May 15
NYC: EDC Wants 500 Parking Spots at Long-Awaited Lower East Side Development : A rendering of the kind of development possible under the Economic Development Corporation's plans for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area....
Streetsblog
May 15
NYC: Tonight: Weigh in on Bike-Share Stations for Downtown Brooklyn : There’s an important meeting of the Brooklyn Community Board 2 transportation committee coming up tonight, where the DOT bike-share team will present proposed locations for Citi Bike stations. The bik...
Streetsblog
May 15
Gay Street building sold : The Rebori Building, at the corner of Gay Street and Vine Avenue, has been sold. According to a deed on file with the county, Gordon Manley and Claire Manley paid $1.3 million for the property at 128...
Property Scope
May 15
More on Extreme Weather and the Greenhouse Effect : Fresh thoughts on the challenges in attributing extreme weather to human-driven climate change....
Dot Earth
May 15
NYC: City Council Can’t Force NYPD to Adhere to State Law on Crash Investigations : The City Council has concluded it cannot require NYPD to fully investigate traffic crashes, despite indications that current department protocols may violate state law. Investigations into the deaths...
Streetsblog
May 15
Greenland Glaciers — not so fast! : There have been several recent papers on ice sheets and sea level that have gotten a bit of press of the journalistic whiplash variety (“The ice is melting faster than we thought!” “No, its not!”)...
RealClimate
May 15
Light Rail and Racial Justice in Seattle : Anyone familiar with Seattle’s Rainier Valley knows it’s a place in transition. Long one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the Northwest, it has for many decades struggled economically....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 15
Knox Heritage announces Fragile 15 : Here's the list. Read more about it here. 1. Kennedy-Baker-Walker-Sherrill House - 9320 Kingston Pike 2....
Property Scope
May 15
As summer travel heats up, FAA keeps the focus on child safety : Every year as the weather gets warmer and the school year winds down, the summer travel season gathers steam....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 15
NYC: Mapping How NYC Bike-Share Meshes With Jobs and Transit : A map of the coming bike-share system with circles scaled to represent the size of stations. Image: Steven Romalewski Hungry for more bike-share maps? Yeah, us too....
Streetsblog
May 15
Manila Shantytown Fire: 800 Homes Destroyed, 10,000 Homeless : London's Daily Mail reports upon a May 11 fire in a shantytown (informal, illegal settlement) destroyed 800 dwellings and left 10,000 people homeless....
Newgeography.com
May 15
The Responsible Business : On May 4, at the Living Futures conference in Portland, I had the great pleasure of hearing a keynote by the uproarious Carol Sanford....
Eco-Compass
May 15
NYC: Today’s Headlines : ESDC Seeks to Appeal Ruling That It Illegally Skipped Atlantic Yards Environmental Review (Crain’s) Pedro Espada Found Guilty of Stealing Hundreds of Thousands From Health Non-Profit (NYT) Cuomo Man P...
Streetsblog
May 15
Tuesday briefing : Attorney for owner of Walker-Sherrill house: Agreement? What agreement? KNS From the archive: Walker-Sherrill house will be preserved....
Property Scope
May 15
Time For British Columbia Provincial Government to Stand Tall on Historic Rainforest Agreements : British Columbia is endowed with the 7.4 million hectare Great Bear Rainforest and adjacent offshore archipelago of Haida Gwaii, one of the few remaining large blocks of comparatively unmodified lands...
Eco-Compass
May 15
Let’s Be Like Europe and Build More Trains! : One recently revealed aspect of the European debt crisis is the role European passenger trains played in running up national debts....
The Antiplanner
May 15
For Climate, Place Matters : Photo: Mark Strosberg, under a Creative Commons license.Photo: Mark Strosberg, under a Creative Commons license. At this point, most serious researchers agree that the average city-dweller produces fe...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 14
Traffic and revenue forecasts for The Toll Roads of Orange County CA - a history in charts : There are now fifteen years of forecasts versus actuality for the Transportation Corridors Agencies (TCAs) of Orange County California - who have branded their roads simply 'The Toll Roads'- nice and...
Toll Roads News
May 14
S Africa's e-toll imperiled by protests and split in government : 2012-05-15: The future of South Africa's all-electronic toll system is in serious question following a court injunction against the planned start of tolling, and the resignation of Nazir Alli, the lon...
Toll Roads News
May 14
Traffic and revenue forecasts for The Toll Roads of Orange County CA - a history in charts : 2012-05-15: There are now fifteen years of forecasts versus actuality for the Transportation Corridors Agencies (TCAs) of Orange County California - who have branded their roads simply 'The Toll Roa...
Toll Roads News
May 14
Creativity in cities : Despite an unfavorable review in yesterday's NY Times, I enjoyed reading Jonah Lehrer's Imagine: How Creativity Works.  Creativity involves activities within and among brains.  There are networks fo...
Peter Gordon's Blog
May 14
Faces of Distracted Driving: Calli Ann Murray, 2 "Even though we lost her, we want to change other people's behavior" : Calli Ann Murray wasn't Al Andres' first grandchild, but she was something special.  To hear him tell it, even her name held a significant meaning. "The name itself, C-A-L-L-I:  C-A stood for Chinese...
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