Viewed on: Mar 22, 2010
Feb 28
The Architecture of Polar Ice Floes
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[Image: Trapped in ice].Back in January 2008, a ship called Tara unlocked from the polar ice near Greenland; it had been frozen in the Arctic floes for a year and four months, repeating the journey of
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Bldgblog
Mar 5
Building an App to Help Neighbors Ride Together
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Of all the ways to improve your bike commute, riding with a friend might be the simplest. Not only do you have someone to talk to at red lights, you also become more visible and therefore more safe.
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Streetsblog
Feb 25
Mexico City Launches Ecobici Bike-Sharing Program
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Last week, Mexico City came a couple steps closer to reducing the 5 million vehicles that pass through it each day with the launch of its new bike sharing program, Ecobici. The Federal ...
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The City Fix
Feb 25
Falling Into the Sustainability Gap
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History is replete with political leaders setting big goals to fix problems in our society or address some perceived external threat to national or global security or well being.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Feb 26
WPC Memo Full of Errors
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Washington Policy Center, a right-leaning think tank, is shopping around a legislative memo opposing an increase in the state's hazardous substance tax. The memo is riddled with errors, including two
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Feb 26
Carling Cup Final Tweet-o-Meter is Live
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The Tweet-o-Meter developed here at CASA is now live for the Cup Final Weekend, making it, in the words of Carling, the First Digital Cup final.The Tweet-O-Meter measures the volume of tweets about th
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Digital Urban
Feb 26
Back in the classroom; this time with Teach For America
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You may know that I started professional life as a teacher. So yesterday it was a pleasure to spend an afternoon back in the classroom as part of Teach For America Week.
And the kids in Ms.
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Welcome to the Fast Lane
Feb 24
On the Road Again: Driving Decline Ends
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It’s official – the historic decline in driving we’ve seen for the past two years has ended. From 2007 up to a few months ago, the economic crisis and high gas prices combined to ...
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The City Fix
Mar 5
Carbon Neutral Caution
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There's been a lot of ambitious talk lately about carbon neutrality. It's exciting stuff, but it's worth pausing to consider just how huge that challenge is. And what, precisely, does it mean?
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Feb 24
German and UK Truck Simulator
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We can't quite remember our search terms on game engines this morning but we stumbled upon a game entitled 'German Truck Simulator'.
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Digital Urban
Feb 26
Albany Chaos Open Thread
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Photo: Times-Union
With Governor Paterson's political career flaming out in spectacular fashion, speculation is rampant that he might step down any day, thrusting Richard Ravitch into New York sta
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Streetsblog
Feb 27
Cut-Out Charlotte
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Below, part of an incredible stop-motion video by artist Rob Carter that uses aerial photos to illustrate a history of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Brand Avenue
Feb 26
Demolished!
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The Chicago Housing Authority has slowly been razing its Cabrini-Green public housing project, and as of yesterday another one of the buildings is gone.
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Urban Omnibus
Feb 26
Yikes!
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The April 2010 Reason (not yet online) this cover story on "The Big Lie ... The White House claims the economy is on the mend.
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Peter Gordon's Blog
Feb 25
Urban Cat
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A slightly bizarre post today, but quite interesting in an odd way, in fact we like it - Urban Cat:
Urban Cat from Elcio Horiuchi on Vimeo.
The movie was by Elcio Horiuchi, created while learning
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Digital Urban
Mar 1
Wisconsin’s High-Cost, Low-Speed Rail
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Wisconsin was the fourth-highest (after California, Florida, and Illinois) recipient of federal high-speed rail money, receiving $823 million to initiate Milwaukee-to-Madison service.
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The Antiplanner
Feb 26
Composite Cityscape: New York
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Darren is a freelance designer/artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, his cityscape composite of New York below has been created as part of a showreel in his bid to gain some freelance visual effe
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Digital Urban
Mar 10
A Question for John Hickenlooper
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A governor is the taxpayers’ last line of defense against money-hungry bureaucrats who incessantly seek their “fair share” of worker incomes in the form of higher taxes for all sorts of boondoggles.
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The Antiplanner
Feb 23
Carling Cup Final using Tweet-o-Meter
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Part of our remit for e-Science here at CASA and du is to use our research in new and innovative ways to get it out into the field.
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Digital Urban
Feb 24
Public OOoornament
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(The OOoo Chair by Martina Decker and Peter Yeadon.)Cut two leg-wide holes ergonomically apart, line the holes and the excised disks with recycled plastics, and voilà, you just made your own OOoo Chai
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Pruned
Feb 26
Artificial Glaciers 101
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[Image: From Wired Science's photo gallery, "Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space"].I thought I'd take a quick look at how to build a glacier.
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BLDGBLOG
Feb 24
Grading RGGI's First Year
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For all the haters who can't abide cap and trade, I give you a new report by Environment Northeast, (ENE) grading RGGI -- that's the carbon cap and trade program that's been operational for over a yea
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Mar 4
The Real Cost of Cap and Trade
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We're finally starting to see results from the first year of RGGI -- the economy-crushing, job-destroying carbon cap-and trade-program in the northeast US:
...said David Littell, commissioner of the
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Mar 2
Back on the Road Again
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The Antiplanner is doing a lot of traveling this month. This week its Portland and Vancouver.
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The Antiplanner
Feb 26
Mark Steyn: Roundabouts and Decline of Civilization
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“I Correlate the Decline of Civilization to the Incidence of Roundabouts.”
(Audio Only)
To be fair, a well-designed roundabout can handle a modest amount of traffic more smoothly than an intersection
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The Antiplanner
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