May 22
NYC: Earth to New York Post: Citi Bike Stations Are Designed to Be Flexible : Hats off to Matt Flegenheimer for the enlightening piece in today’s Times describing the lessons from other bike-share systems that informed New York’s big decisions about Citi Bike....
Streetsblog
May 22
NYC: Careless Driving Amendment Passes Senate, Awaits Action by Assembly : A bill targeted at NYPD’s self-imposed ban on penalizing motorists for careless driving has cleared the State Senate, but awaits passage in the Assembly. NYPD refuses to enforce the law named after Di...
Streetsblog
May 22
NYC: How Cuomo Could Expand DWI Effort to Target All Serial Dangerous Drivers : Governor Cuomo announced Monday that new DMV drivers license rules have taken thousands of dangerous motorists off New York State roads....
Streetsblog
May 22
Climate Attitude Adjustment? : Photo Credit: VinothChandar via Compfight cc Today Yale and George Mason are releasing the third report from their latest national survey, Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies in April 2...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 22
Night and day, Click It Or Ticket seat belt campaign has one goal: your safety : In 2010, if everyone age 5 and older in a passenger vehicle had worn seat belts, 3,341 lives could have been saved....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 22
Preserving Nigeria’s Evil Forests : Throughout history, cultures around the world have created the concept of the evil forest, a dark, scary place where bad things happen....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 22
NYC: Q Poll: Support for Cycling a Vote Winner for Mayoral Candidates : Mayoral candidates stand to gain votes if they support increased bicycling, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll. The last question of the poll, which surveyed 1,082 NYC voters via land lines and c...
Streetsblog
May 22
The Ricotta Index : In February, we announced our second annual writing competition, this year on the topic of cost, metrics, and measurement in urban life....
Urban Omnibus
May 22
Seeking Clarity on Terrible Tornadoes in a Changing Climate : A deeper look at tornadoes in a changing climate....
Dot Earth
May 22
NYC: Today’s Headlines : 2013: Weiner Announces (News, NYT); “Bill de Blasio Drives” (NYT); Q Poll: Runoff Likely (WSJ) Metro-North and Amtrak Expected to Resume Full Service Today (NYT) NYC Bike-Share Modeled on the Best of...
Streetsblog
May 22
The Fiscal Case For Smart Growth : William Fulton   After eight years in elected office in California, I can tell you that I often fell into the same trap as everybody else: chasing revenue....
California Planning & Development Report
May 22
Eric Garcetti's Moment : William Fulton So, we all woke up this morning to the news that Eric Garcetti – longtime city council president, councilmember from Hollywood, and son of former L.A....
California Planning & Development Report
May 22
Catching Growth: The Issues Facing Melbourne’s Public Transport System and Its Outer Suburbs : As our cities grow, their transport needs become more complex....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 22
The Fiscal Case For Smart Growth : William Fulton   After eight years in elected office in California, I can tell you that I often fell into the same trap as everybody else: chasing revenue....
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
May 22
Eric Garcetti's Moment : William Fulton So, we all woke up this morning to the news that Eric Garcetti – longtime city council president, councilmember from Hollywood, and son of former L.A....
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
May 22
One City, Nine Towns: Shanghai’s Western Suburbs : Over a decade ago, as the population of Shanghai soared, density was at an all time high and Chinese urban planners, realizing the city’s growth was unsustainable, they proposed a new solution to the...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 22
When Student Renters Crowd Out Homeowners : Home to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, the Carnegie Museums and Library, Phipps Conservatory, and the expansive Schenley Park, Oakland, a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Penn...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 22
Must-See New Urbanism Projects in Salt Lake City, Utah : Christie Oostema, Planning Director at Envision Utah said in a recent podcast that she hopes to see Salt Lake City become an incubator for new urbanism projects....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 22
Wednesday briefing : Husk, in Nashville, to open on Thursday. Tennessean Hot Bagel Company plans location in Whittle Building. Stuck Inside of Knoxville Rockwood plant Toho Tenax to halve its workforce....
Property Scope
May 22
500 Words a Day: Academic Writing : Its not something many academics admit – but writing is hard, not for all, there are some academics who simply flow words but for many its a challenge....
Digital Urban
May 22
Financial Deformation : I'm in the final quarter of The Great Deformation - The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David Stockman....
Strong Towns
May 21
Penn Pike's $200m EB-5 immigrant visa financing a done deal - Pike to pay lender expenses + $200k for 2% loans : 2013-05-21: The Pennsylvania Turnpike is in deeper on controversial EB-5 visas-for-investment financing than we indicated in previous reports....
Toll Roads News
May 21
Kids (and Teachers) in Peril, From Oklahoma to Oregon : Why do communities fail to secure the buildings that house their children against momentous hazards?...
Dot Earth
May 21
NYC: Gelinas Responds to Komanoff on Bike-share Safety : Manhattan Institute fellow Nicole Gelinas submitted this response to Charles Komanoff’s critique of her weekend opinion piece in the New York Post about bike-share safety. Charles Komanoff, i...
Streetsblog
May 21
NYC: City Council Candidates on the Issues: Andrew Cohen, District 11 : Streetsblog continues our series on City Council candidates with a look at the race for District 11 in the Bronx, which covers Kingsbridge, Riverdale, Woodlawn, and Norwood....
Streetsblog
May 21
NYC: FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano: Bike-Share Racks Are Not In Our Way : We have a message from FDNY that should once and for all take care of fabricated concerns about bike-share docking stations getting in the way of emergency vehicles. Here’s a statement from Fire Commi...
Streetsblog
May 21
NYC: Official Citi Bike Mobile App Now Available : The official Citi Bike mobile application is now available to download....
Streetsblog
May 21
Weaving people back into the urban fabric : How do we make our cities more people-centric? Photo by Blmurch. If cities are to be more people-oriented, shouldn’t we work on sharing the space with each other?...
The City Fix
May 21
Where Are My Cars: SR-167 HOT Lanes : We’ve written before about the “high occupancy/toll” lane experiment on Washington’s SR-167....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 21
At Gallaudet, a commencement message for graduates everywhere: dream big; be bold; work together : At colleges and universities across America, a wave of commencements is underway. For thousands of students, crossing the threshold and becoming graduates is a moment when everything is possible....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 21
NYC: Predictions of Bike-Share Carnage Are a Mirage and a Distraction : Just when you thought the bike-share detractors might have run out of steam — or at least taken a time-out — along comes an intellectually muddled piece in the NY Post warning of dead bike-share users...
Streetsblog
May 21
Djenne: An Evolving Cultural Landscape : Who manages a cultural landscape that has global importance? Does the United Nations have final say or the local community?...
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 21
Competition: Create Your City’s Next Great PLAYscape : Which city is the most fun?...
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 21
NYC: New York Post Serving as Stenographers for Bike-Share Litigants [Updated] : Update: Streetsblog had a call in to FDNY about the Post story....
Streetsblog
May 21
Summer air travel is heating up; DOT has you covered : As May moves toward June, the summer air travel season is heating up right alongside the weather....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 21
The need for disaster-resistant housing becomes tragically clear : by Janet Viveiros, Center for Housing Policy A home in Union Beach, N.J., destroyed by Hurricane Sandy....
NHC Open House Blog
May 21
Study: Millennials lead trend to walkable communities : The actual headlines based on a new U.S....
CoolTown Studios
May 21
Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (May 5 – 18) :   The Dirt has initiated a new bi-weekly feature highlighting news stories from around the Web on landscape architecture....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 21
A Survival Plan for America’s Tornado Danger Zone : There are affordable ways to live more safely in tornado zones....
Dot Earth
May 21
We Want your Opinion: Weigh-in Regarding the Camlica Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey : The Çamlica Mosque, or Çamlica Camii in Turkish, is located at Istanbul, Turkey’s Çamlıca Hill....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 21
Tuesday Network Update : There is a lot happening at the Strong Towns Network. Here's a sample: Andrew Price shares an idea from Australia called Thinkers in Residence....
Strong Towns
May 21
(The GRID Blogger) Sophie Plottel: Shanghai, China : A big Global Site Plans welcome to our newest blogger, Sophie Plottel in Shanghai, China....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 21
Oakland, California’s New Transit-Oriented Development Redefines Space : Oakland continues to bring new development and innovation to its neighborhoods....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 21
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Regular Amtrak and Metro-North Service to Resume Tomorrow After Connecticut Derailment (NYT) Derailment Spotlights Years of Delayed Metro-North Investment from Connecticut (WNYC) EMTs Successfully Res...
Streetsblog
May 21
3 Ways to Create Opportunities for Rural Floridians : Tourists and residents flock to Florida’s metropolitan areas to enjoy bustling theme parks, cities that spill into the ocean, and shiny downtown high-rises....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 21
Tuesday briefing : State gives UT OK to buy, demolish three historic homes. KNS City, UT exploring cultural center at World's Fair Park. KNS Mini-movies are next step in marketing of high-end Nashville homes....
Property Scope
May 21
Working Paper – Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World : We present our working paper entitled ‘Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World‘....
Digital Urban
May 21
Poverty and the Suburbs : Despite claims of a downtown population boom, the reality is that every demographic group is growing faster in the suburbs than the cities–and that includes poor people. According to an L.A....
The Antiplanner
May 20
Downtown Reinvestment: 1801 California Update #2 : Back in January we took a look at the 1801 California renovations and learned that the entire ground floor was being remodeled....
DenverUrbanism
May 20
NFC used in GeoToll's smartphone-as-tolltag, and Neology for windshield tag : 2013-05-20: Google '6C sticker tags RFID NFC' and you generate a long list of suppliers. The tag is now a commodity item....
Toll Roads News
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