Jun 13
Seeking Constructive Debate on Nuclear Energy : A Pulitzer-winning historian of the atomic age defends nuclear energy and a new film about it....
Dot Earth
Jun 13
Royal Gorge Bridge damaged in fire, tram destroyed : One of Colorado’s most interesting and famous pieces of infrastructure, the Royal Gorge Bridge, has been damaged in the ongoing Royal Gorge wildfire....
DenverUrbanism
Jun 13
NYC: Colbert Gets in on This Whole Rabinowitz Thing : It’s not quite as brilliant as Al Madrigal’s segment on the Daily Show last week, but Stephen Colbert’s riff on Dorothy Rabinowitz at the end of this clip is totally worth your time this morning....
Streetsblog
Jun 13
A Film Presses the Climate, Health and Security Case for Nuclear Energy : A new film stirs strong feelings and fresh thinking on nuclear energy....
Dot Earth
Jun 13
Why We’re Broke: Closing Plenary at the Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Charles (Chuck) Marohne, Strong Towns Chuck Marohne, Executive Director of Strong Towns, said that the mechanisms of growth we have become accustomed to are waning. L...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 13
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Barclays Center On-Site Parking Mostly Empty (NYT, AYR) Looks Like Marty Golden Still Opposes Speed Cams Because He Thinks They Don’t Work (NY1) Prendergast Confirmation Stonewalled by L.I....
Streetsblog
Jun 13
The Future Cities Are Smart Cities : In the midst of rapid technological innovation, our cities are becoming “smarter.” We may have passed the first part of the digital revolution, but the fact stands that technology is now an inseparabl...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 13
Cell Phone Tracking Data Sold in Hopes for Better Decision Making: Transportation’s Future with Technology at The Congress of the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Rob Milam, Fehr & Peers Ron Milam, Principal-In-Charge of Technical Development at Fehr & Peers, discussed the effect of big data on transportation planning and engineering. He began...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 13
Guerrilla Planning From the Bottom Up: Tactical Urbanism at the Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Mike Lydon, The Street Plans Collaborative Mike Lydon, Principal at The Street Plans Collaborative, opened the session with, “It’s time to redesign the project delivery proces...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 13
Transforming Miami: One Ride at a Time : Though ranked among the least bike-friendly cities in the country, Miami is improving....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 13
Downtown garage owners seek demolition approval : The owners of the Pryor Brown garage, at the corner of Church and Market streets, are seeking permission to demolish the building. According to an agenda for next week's Downtown Design Review Board...
Property Scope
Jun 13
Thursday briefing : New Knoxville position to help plan cycling, pedestrian routes. KNS State: Ex-Knox County trustee Mike Lowe used title business to bilk taxpayers. KNS Farragut to consider noise ordinance....
Property Scope
Jun 12
Rise in bond yields is dilemma for toll financing ANALYSIS : 2013-06-12: The Wall Street Journal this morning headlines "Global Tumult Grips Markets" and leads with: "The tectonic plates of the world economy are shifting, moving the yield on the 10-year Treasur...
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 12
Oregon: Driving Downhill : There’s a lot of history packed into this chart on Oregon’s vehicle trends: the seemingly relentless driving boom of the 1950s through 1990s; the decoupling of gasoline consumption from vehicle travel...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Jun 12
Meta-stuff : Urban planners generally love densities....
Peter Gordon's Blog
Jun 12
Dumb Money, Day 3 : Let's summarize where we've been so far this week. On Monday, we showed how banks and large investors have the capacity to leverage modest amounts of equity into large market positions by taking on de...
Strong Towns
Jun 12
15 Years of Photographing Harlem: A Conversation with John Reddick and Albert Vecerka : Tomorrow night, June 13th, is the 3rd annual Urban Omnibus Block Party, where friends, fans, and regular readers convene to celebrate and help support Urban Omnibus....
Urban Omnibus
Jun 12
NYC: Albany’s Slimmed-Down Speed Cam Legislation Could Cross the Finish Line : Larger circles indicate a higher incidence of speeding near schools. Click for full-size PDF....
Streetsblog
Jun 12
NYC: Eyes on the Street: Reason Number 6,734,090,855 NYC Needs Speed Cams : Turn up the volume and listen for the sociopathic pacesetter about halfway through this clip. This is southbound Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights, recorded with my bike-mounted camera at the inte...
Streetsblog
Jun 12
Nominate your city for the 2014 Sustainable Transport Award : 2012 STA winner Mexico City impressed the committee with its extensive BRT system, Metrobús. Photo by ITDP....
The City Fix
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
Jun 12
FTA support improves access to transit, opportunity in Nebraska and New Mexico : When DOT helps make it easier for people to get access to job sites, medical services, grocery stores, and higher education, we're not only helping transit riders; we're improving communities...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
Jun 12
NYC: Bloomberg’s Resiliency Plan Calls for Permanent Bus, Ferry Expansion : Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled a resiliency plan to better prepare New York for flooding due to climate change and severe storms....
Streetsblog
Jun 12
Belmar by bus is easy, but RTD could make it easier : It’s unfortunate that downtown Lakewood, aka Belmar, doesn’t have a stop on the new West light rail line. But RTD offers great bus service to Belmar from the Wadsworth light rail station....
DenverUrbanism
Jun 12
Wild Moment: A Fawn Saved By Someone Else’s Mom : An imperiled baby deer flees to a human mom before finding its own....
Dot Earth
Jun 12
Chelsea Fringe: A Garden Festival for the Masses : The Chelsea Fringe, a volunteer-driven, public garden festival, is only a year old but already had 150 events this summer....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
Jun 12
What Benefits Older People Benefits Everyone : By 2050, one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older, but, unfortunately, less than half of our country’s jurisdictions are prepared for this massive demographic shift....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
Jun 12
Green Infrastructure Is Becoming Mainstream : Green infrastructure is now big time, given the head of water for the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) is now promoting its benefits....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
Jun 12
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Bloomberg Unveils Storm Resiliency Plan (Observer, Post, News, WNYC, NYT) WNYC Estimates That 10% of Citi Bike Stations “Flatline” Each Day; Post Notices Power Outages Too Bay Ridge Community Board Co...
Streetsblog
Jun 12
Wednesday briefing : Preserving the past: Historic cabins a family hobby. KNS Report: TVA may host "open house" to display findings of archaeological dig at Locust and Summer Place....
Property Scope
Jun 12
Crowdsourcing the Evolution of an Industrial Neighborhood: The Granary District’s Journey at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : James Alfandre, Kentlands Initiative James Alfandre, Executive Director at the Kentlands Initiative, opened the session by defining crowdsourcing....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 12
Building Momentum for Bicycling in New Orleans : This past May 2013, New Orleans received a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community award from the League of American Bicyclists. Undoubtedly, the award was well deserved....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 12
Safe Cycling in South Lake Tahoe: Making Bicycle Education a Part of the Solution : Hands down, I live in biking Mecca....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 12
SFPark Program Puts Parking Theory to the Test : What’s the longest it’s ever taken you to find parking in an urban environment like San Francisco?...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 12
So, Who's That New San Diego Planning Director? : On Tuesday, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner announced that he had selected Bill Fulton, this publication's founding editor and publisher, as the city's new planning director.  Rather than comment on this s...
California Planning & Development Report
Jun 12
So, Who's That New San Diego Planning Director? : On Tuesday, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner announced that he had selected Bill Fulton, this publication's founding editor and publisher, as the city's new planning director.  Rather than comment on this s...
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
Jun 12
UCL Quad – Procedural City and Lumion : The Quadrangle at University College London was designed by William Wilkins and constructed between 1827 and 1828....
Digital Urban
Jun 12
They’ll Do It Every Time : A middle-class urban planner sees a working-class neighborhood and says, “I wouldn’t want to live there....
The Antiplanner
Jun 11
Bus/toll lanes (BTLs) being proposed for Tampa Hillsboro area : 2013-06-11: Tampa's toll and transit authorities will be jointly proposing a first bus/toll lanes (BTL) project this fall.  Joe Waggoner chief executive of the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority...
Toll Roads News
Jun 11
The life and death urban highways : Cover for the newly released publication “Vida e Morte das Rodovias Urbanas“....
The City Fix
Jun 11
NYC: NYC Bike-Share Clearly Isn’t Ready to Blanket the City Yet : Bike-share would work well in much of New York, according to a 2009 report from the Department of City Planning. To get there, the system has to be reliable first....
Streetsblog
Jun 11
Ely Building sold : It's not often that hockey sticks are the catalyst for Knoxville real estate deals, but a downtown gem is one exception. The Ely Building, at 406 W....
Property Scope
Jun 11
Chris Jordan’s Journey : Chris JordanEditor’s note: For information on our upcoming 20th anniversary speaker series event featuring Chris Jordan, see our earlier post here. Chris Jordan is a renowned...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Jun 11
Cell Phone Population Spike Catching up With Humans : Our main source of connectedness, mobile phones, could soon outnumber us....
Dot Earth
Jun 11
Demand for TIGER infrastructure funding remains strong : The applications for TIGER 2013 are in, and the conclusion is clear: America's communities want to make their transportation infrastructure safer and more effective, and they need Federal support to d...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
Jun 11
NYC: Eyes on the Street: SUV Driver Crashes Into Ambulance at 71st and Broadway : Photo: Liz Patek Reader Liz Patek sends in these photos of a crash at 71st and Broadway last night....
Streetsblog
Jun 11
Hard work : This morning's WSJ includes "Rail Lines Bring Housing Clashes ......
Peter Gordon's Blog
Jun 11
Foothill/Eastern tollroad in S Cal gets its investment grade ratings for $2.4b refinancing : 2013-06-11: The financially challenged Transportation Corridors Agencies (TCA) in southern California have good news in receiving investment grade ratings for the Foothill/Eastern (F/E) 241 toll road...
Toll Roads News
Jun 11
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Tri-State Links Fresh Direct Mitigation to Implementation of Sheridan Recommendations (MTR) Woman Loses Leg on East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx After Driver Swerves Near Her (Post) Off-Duty NYPD Cop A...
Streetsblog
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