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Nov 12
Today’s Headlines
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City Council's Shot Across Bloomberg's Bow: Parking Enforcement Not Acceptable (Post)
Shelly Silver Won't Even Pass Tougher Penalties for Driving Drunk With Kids (Observer, Post, News)
Bus
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Streetsblog
Oct 30
Get Your Wolf On
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Surely one of the most encouraging conservation stories in recent years has been the phenomenal revival of wild wolves in the Rockies.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Oct 30
Bringing Farms to the Heartland — of Suburbia
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Today on the Streetsblog Network, St. Louis Urban Workshop looks at the concept of "agriburbia" -- a way to bring some meaningful food production to suburban sprawl:
In St.
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Streetsblog
Oct 31
Turnpike on alert for legal gridlock - Brimmeier memo
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Eric Heyl of Pittsburgh's Tribune Review obtained the following memo under what he calls the federal Freedom of Imagination Act:To: All Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission employees From: Joseph Brimmeie
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Toll Roads News
Oct 29
Wanted: Smart Workers for Smart Grid
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Early this week, President Obama gave a speech touting the $3.4 billion in grants the federal government has awarded to local companies, utilities and cities working to improve the country’s aging and
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Oct 30
Today’s Headlines
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The Bike Lane Boom: How Does It Play in Western Queens?
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Streetsblog
Oct 30
Congress appropriates funds for GLRI
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As anticipated, Congress approved $475 million in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Oct 30
Nudges, Laundry, and Trash
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Wouldn't it be nice if there were painless and unobtrusive ways to promote a shift to sustainable behavior?
Well, there are.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Oct 29
Macquarie to split gems from dud pikes
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Macquarie are proposing to split their portfolio of pikes into the gems (called Mature MIG) and the duds called (called Active MIG).
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Toll Roads News
Oct 28
The Bark Beetle's Bite
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Via Climate Progress, a transcript from Marketplace that is just riveting. It's about the bark beetle infestation and forest die-offs around Helena, Montana.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Oct 31
Mine / Stack / Vertigo
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[Image: Michael Light, Bingham Pit photograph mounted and on display].A beautiful new book of photographs by Guggenheim Fellow Michael Light has been released.
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BLDGBLOG
Nov 2
Monday's Numbers and Noteworthy News
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Happy Halloween!
In response to reader’s suggestions, we are re-ordering—slightly—the order of presentation as well as adding commercial mortgage-backed securities trading sp
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The Ground Floor
Oct 30
Think Tanks on TV
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Last night, TVW aired a one hour televised no-holds-barred fight to the death friendly discussion with five think tanks in Washington State. If you haven't guessed already, Sightline was one of them.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Oct 30
Bikes at Work Where You Live, Part 1
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Wow.
Our call for pictures of work bikes elicited such an overwhelming response -- more than 300 photos -- that we almost didn't know where to begin.
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Streetsblog
Oct 28
Paul Goldberger Tonight on Why Architecture Matters
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The New Haven Public Library at 133 Elm Street hosts an event this evening, Wednesday, October 28 at 6:00pm, entitled "Civic Conversations on Public Architecture."Paul Goldberger, author of newly publ
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Design New Haven
Nov 7
Update on EcoCity World Summit
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As a follow-up post to our initial announcement of the Ecocity World Summit in Istanbul, scheduled for December 13-15, here are a few links to stories from the Ecocity Media website you may enjoy:
Ke
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The City Fix
Nov 2
It's the Salish Sea Now
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In a step forward for bioregional thinking, Washington has agreed to add a new name to the Northwest's official geographic lexicon: the Salish Sea.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Nov 6
The Fog of Stimulus
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The news is full of stories about the the impact of the ARRA on job creation, including this one from the The Wall Street Journal about a shoe store owner who created or saved nine jobs with
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Newgeography.com
Oct 31
Velib gets trashed--Bike-Sharing Vandals
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From the NYTimes:"Just as Le Corbusier’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris’s bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for
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Smart Growth
Nov 7
Unemployment Rate Nowhere Near White House Predictions
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Check out this chart from geoff at Innocent Bystanders plotting the actual recent unemployment rates against the predicted stimulus-reduced rate from Obama's recovery team:
Google's chart interface i
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Newgeography.com
Nov 6
Fleeting Design
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If you’ve ever worked in distressed communities, you’ve
faced the dilemma that there simply is no private market for what you want to
see built. You can chip away at the
problem of vacant land with t
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Planetizen Interchange
Oct 31
New Local Worlds in Section
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[Image: "Moravian Mount" from New Local Zlín by Margaret Bursa].In a recent post I included an image from Margaret Bursa's project New Local NY, which she produced while a student at the
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Bldgblog
Oct 30
Our Parks Are Secure. What About Our Streets?
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When are the police finally going to reclaim the streets from speeding and dangerous driving?
When will pedestrians and cyclists be able to feel safe and secure on New York City streets?
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Streetsblog
Oct 28
PD editorializes on neighborhood strategies
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A Plain Dealer editorial about the recent PolicyBridge report on Cleveland's neighborhoods concludes that "this as a time to build, not a time to mourn -- precisely the attitude Clevelanders mu
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
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