Viewed on: May 16, 2012
02:35 PM
The Gas Age, Circa 1986
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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
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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
11:32 AM
A Free Range Life
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Some may have never heard of the term exurbia before now....
Newgeography.com
10:34 AM
Arby's building gets rock-star treatment
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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
09:58 AM
Scott West Market Square update
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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?
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“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
06:20 AM
A Yankee Ballpark for the Locals
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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
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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
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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
05:47 AM
Wednesday briefing
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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
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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
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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
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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
ONE Prize: Blight to Might
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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
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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
Gay Street building sold
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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
Greenland Glaciers — not so fast!
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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
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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
The Responsible Business
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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
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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
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Attorney for owner of Walker-Sherrill house: Agreement? What agreement? KNS
From the archive: Walker-Sherrill house will be preserved....
Property Scope
May 15
For Climate, Place Matters
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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
Creativity in cities
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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
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