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May 23
Maine Turnpike CEO Peter Mills says he'll have York toll options for board by the fall - studying cash payers : 2013-05-23: In the fall Peter Mills CEO of the Maine Turnpike plans to present his board of directors with options for the future of toll collection at important and troublesome south end of the Turnp...
Toll Roads News
Jun 12
New Hampshire Supreme Court Finds Registration Sign for Resort is a Directional Sign and Entitled to Sign Exemption Under Local Ordinance : River Run Company, Inc., owner of the Attitash Mountain Village resort in Bartlett, New Hampshire, applied in September 2009 for a permit to place a sign along a local highway to advertise suites at t...
Law of the Land
Jun 7
NYC: “The Daily Show” on Citi Bike: “Doesn’t Anybody Have a Real Objection?” : Forget the ridership numbers: you know you’ve hit the big time when Jon Stewart and company spend a full nine minutes satirizing you at the top of “The Daily Show.” The first segment, which leans heav...
Streetsblog
Jun 5
NYC: Words of Wisdom From London’s Bike-Share Chief : London launched its bike-share system in 2010, and it looks like New York’s experience so far isn’t so different from theirs....
Streetsblog
May 31
Is the “Great American Grid” Even American?: The Great American Grid Debate at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Susan Mudd, who has attended 20 out of the 21 Congress for the New Urbanism annual congresses and is John Norquist’s wife, explained to me that the reason why CNU has chosen to call their annual gathe...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
New Urbanism, Meet the Third World: The Charter Awards at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : The Charter Awards are annual awards given to projects submitted by students and professionals by the Congress for the New Urbanism at the annual Congress. A group of carefully chosen...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 24
Ground Sounds : [Image: From a map of the San Andreas Fault, cutting through the Carrizo Plain, by T.W. Dibblee (1973), courtesy of the USGS]....
Bldgblog
May 31
Welcome to Citiwire.net – May 31 : Welcome to Citiwire.net....
Citiwire.net
Jun 4
How Storm Chasers Have Made Tornado Alley Safer : A meteorologist focused on severe weather hails the contributions of storm chasers....
Dot Earth
May 24
Chicago area Elgin O'Hare Western Access AET pikes move into costruction : The Illinois Tollway is moving ahead on construction of the Elgin O'Hare Western Access (EOWA) project following final approvals by the state legislature....
Toll Roads News
May 23
Program Support Internship: Apply by June 28, 2013 : Global Site Plans, branding for environmental design, specializes in branding for small and medium-sized architecture, engineering, environmental non-profits, landscape architecture, and urban plannin...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
Debate Over Plan Bay Area : The Antiplanner’s presentation at last night’s debate over Plan Bay Area is now available in PowerPoint or PDF format. You can also download Tom Rubin’s presentation in PDF format....
The Antiplanner
May 30
NYC: Support Pro-Human Transportation Journalism – Give to Streetsblog : We are rolling right along with our spring pledge drive....
Streetsblog
May 29
Worcester Union Station Bus Hub brings better access, more transportation options : Nearly a year ago, in June 2012, I visited Union Station in Worcester, Massachusetts, to see the progress the Worcester Regional Transit Authority had made rehabilitating the city's important transpor...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 24
Should Free-Market Advocates Support Limits on Food Stamps? : Here’s a toughie. Assume you support free-markets. That means you probably oppose government limits on what foods people can buy, such as New York Mayor Bloomberg’s so-called Big Gulp ban....
The Antiplanner
May 23
Inspiring Urban Places Win Rudy Bruner Award : Inspiration Kitchens in Garfield Park, Chicago, took home the Bruner Foundation’s Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) gold medal, which comes with $50,000 in support for the project....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
Jun 12
Sightline Talks Bicycling : Patrick Barber, flickr, used with permission.Next week I’ll be driving my SUV pedaling to the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium at the University of Washington in Seattle....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 24
Ground Sounds : [Image: From a map of the San Andreas Fault, cutting through the Carrizo Plain, by T.W. Dibblee (1973), courtesy of the USGS]....
BLDGBLOG
Jun 6
The Green Roots of Turkey’s Urban Unrest : Widespread protests in Turkey started with focused anger over plans to replace an urban park with a mall....
Dot Earth
Jun 2
Collaborative Consumption is Quickly Gaining Ground: The New Economy of Sharing at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Lee Sobel, a Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst for the U.S....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 26
Where Will They Go When There’s No More Room in Arlington? : A fresh musical take on the persistent tussle between war and peace -- and the human cost of conflict....
Dot Earth
May 23
Girding Cities for a Perilous Century : For Release Sunday, May 26, 2013 © 2013 Washington Post Writers Group It’s as bold a move as one could imagine....
Citiwire.net
Jun 2
Sarah Susanka’s Not So Big Plenary: A Summary of the Friday Morning Plenary at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Sarah Susanka has written nine books for her best-selling “Not So Big” series....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
Integrating Our Aging Population Into Mixed Use Communities: The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Jon Dauphine, Senior Vice President of Education and Outreach for AARP, said that in 2007, there were 37 million people in the U.S. over the age of 65....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 5
Smugness Alert : Young people have been told so often that they are especially virtuous for living in inner cities and riding transit instead of driving that they have developed a serious epidemic of smugness....
The Antiplanner
May 30
What Infrastructure Deficit? : An economist named Ed Dolan who lives in Washington state opines that the collapse of the Skagit River Bridge reveals an “infrastructure deficit.” That’s certainly the prevailing wisdom....
The Antiplanner
Jun 10
NYC: Why Sri Rides : This wraps up Dmitry Gudkov’s series of bike-share-themed “Why I Ride” profiles on Streetsblog. Thanks Dmitry!...
Streetsblog
Jun 8
Urban Trees as Triggers, From Istanbul to Oregon : When leaders crack down in fights over scarce urban trees, trouble follows....
Dot Earth
May 23
June 13: Urban Omnibus Block Party 2013 : Click here to buy your tickets for a party and auction to benefit Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League’s online publication dedicated to...
Urban Omnibus
Jun 10
The next housing finance system should create access and affordability for all in America : by Ethan Handelman, National Housing Conference Since financial crisis six years ago, the gears of government have ground slowly toward a replacement housing finance system....
NHC Open House Blog
May 29
NYC: Why Emily Rides : Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov Emily lives in the East Village and commutes to Midtown. She was riding to work for the first time....
Streetsblog
May 29
Studio Report: Future Bronx(es) : As another semester ends and final reviews come to a close, the wealth of creative energy spent in design studios this spring risks becoming confined to student portfolios and never contributing to br...
Urban Omnibus
May 30
Developing Classical and Contemporary Models in ESRI’s City Engine – CASA Working Paper 191 : CASA Working Paper 191 – Developing classical and contemporary models in ESRI’s City Engine – is now available to download. By Flora Roumpani, The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Univer...
Digital Urban
Jun 7
NYC: Dorothy Rabinowitz vs. Veronica Moss: Which One Is Satire? : Again we have to hand it to the Wall Street Journal: They know link bait when they see it. Having apparently decided that pageview count is more important than credibility, the Journal editorial staff...
Streetsblog
Jun 1
Unbelievable Chutzpah: Going Over the Line : I have reblogged this post from my other blog, The Scholar's Survival Manual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Ed Klein...
This Week's Finds in Planning
May 28
Put a Face on Climate Change : Photo: iStock.Scientist and Yale communications researcher Anthony Leiserowitz recently lamented that when it comes to climate change “You almost couldn’t design a problem that is a worse fit with our...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 24
It Shall Rise from the Ashes: A Review of the Film ‘Detropia’ : Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus is the official motto of Detroit meaning “We Hope for Better Things; It Shall Rise from the Ashes.” Adopted after the city of Detroit burned to t...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 1
Lack of Participatory Planning is to Blame: Istanbul, Turkey Faces-Off on Day-Five : As a foreigner making her home in Istanbul, Turkey, I feel honored to hear the noise in the streets, the sounds of banging pots and traditional Turkish coffee carafes, honking horns, and chant...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 23
Welcome to Citiwire.net – May 23 : Welcome to Citiwire.net. This week we focus on city resilience around the globe....
Citiwire.net
Jun 8
With CO2 Cuts Tough, U.S. and China Pledge a Push on Another Greenhouse Gas : The United States and China pledge to act together to cut releases of a potent greenhouse gas....
Dot Earth
Jun 5
NYC: Why Jose Rides : Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov Jose is a computer science student at CUNY. He recently bought an annual membership to Citi Bike. “I live near Brooklyn College, so I take the subway into Manhattan....
Streetsblog
May 24
Where Are My Cars: Another Decline in Washington : Vehicle travel on Washington’s state roads fell again last year....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 24
Roundup — Beaches Bounce Back, Stormproofing, Coworking, 5Pointz, and The School of Transgressive Placemaking : Rockaway Beach | Image via Oscar Rohena BEACHES BOUNCE BACK Beach season is finally upon us, and the Department of Parks and Recreation has been hard at work restoring the city’s 14 m...
Urban Omnibus
May 24
NYC: Mesmerizing! Citi Bikes Arrive : Here it is: A bike-share station with bikes, and it’s not a photo shoot. A reader sent this shot of Foley Square across from the courts this morning. The blue bikes are a great conversation starter....
Streetsblog
May 30
Restlessness or Multitalented: A Book Review of Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted : Walking into Central Park, one admires the beauty, serenity, and incredible vistas this safe haven offers its visitors....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 29
Natural Hair Care Act Passes in Oregon : Hair braiding, by flickr user stevendepoloIn a win for fairness and common sense, the state of Oregon will no longer subject people who practice African-style hair braiding (and other forms of natural...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 27
The Little Flour Mill That Could: Historic Preservation in Spokane, Washington : This historic industrial building  – gone commercial haven – success story begins with “The Biggest Man in Spokane,” Simon Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer, a prominent member of Spokane’s Jewish co...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 7
Trend or Coercion? : The Wall Street Journal reports that the “latest urban trend” is “less elbow room” as measured by an increase in accessory units and additional homes built on the lots once occupied by only one home....
The Antiplanner
May 29
NYC: DOT Trims Harlem Bus Plan; Bill Perkins’ Office: “We Are Definitely Pleased” : Congratulations are in order for State Senator Bill Perkins, who has successfully condemned more than 32,000 crosstown bus riders to travel on 125th Street at speeds that are often slower than walking...
Streetsblog
May 27
NYC: Bike-Share Goes Live at 11 – Don’t Forget to Activate Your Key : As of 8:15 a.m., the bikes on Howard Street by Streetsblog HQ were available to annual Citi Bike members. All stations will be turned on by 11 a.m. this morning....
Streetsblog