Viewed on: Nov 22, 2009
Nov 18
Salt Space / Biospeleology
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The previous post reminded me of a news item reported roughly two weeks ago, that the town of Carlsbad, NM, is in danger of collapsing into the earth below due to the out-of-control dissolution of und
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BLDGBLOG
Nov 18
Salt Space / Biospeleology
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The previous post reminded me of a news item reported roughly two weeks ago, that the town of Carlsbad, NM, is in danger of collapsing into the earth below due to the out-of-control dissolution of und
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Bldgblog
Nov 18
Quadraturin
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A Soviet-era, Polish-born, Ukrainian-raised writer named Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky was the subject of a short profile and review over at The Nation last week.
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BLDGBLOG
Nov 18
Quadraturin
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A Soviet-era, Polish-born, Ukrainian-raised writer named Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky was the subject of a short profile and review over at The Nation last week.
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Bldgblog
Nov 18
Mapping Main Street: Flushing, Queens
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Mapping Main Street heads to Flushing for some audio-video explorations of Main Street produced by neighborhood students, providing a local snapshot of the nation-wide project.
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Urban Omnibus
Nov 18
Today’s Headlines
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DOT: East Side BRT "Might" Include Physically Separated Lanes (News)
Bloomberg, Cut This Cost: 2,400 City Employees Drive to Work in City-Owned Cars (News)
Assembly Passes Leandra's Law, I
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Streetsblog
Nov 18
The Sentient City Survival Kit
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The Sentient City Survival Kit is a design research project that explores the social, cultural and political implications of ubiquitous computing for urban environments.
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Digital Urban
Nov 18
Valencia, Spain 3D City
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The 3D cities roll out continues at increasing pace - the movie below captured by YourWorldIn3D details Valencia, Spain:Its certainly impressive, Google's increasingly strong focus on geographic infor
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Digital Urban
Nov 18
The Compact City Myth
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Can smart growth — compact development combined with alternatives to the automobile — play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions?
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The Antiplanner
Nov 17
Transportation News Roundup
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It's been a busy couple of days for transportation news over at Planetizen, the primo source for urban planning news on the Web!
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The Centre for Sustainable Transportation
Nov 17
Introducing the Bike Tree
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A couple years ago, I mentioned that secure bike parking is important to creating affordable, green transportation.
Personally, I’ve well provided.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Nov 17
Story Behind the Story: Reporting from the Roller Derby
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posted by David Kidd
Writer Rob Gurwitt and I were in Providence City Hall: he to gather information for an upcoming story, and I to take pictures of whomever and whatever Rob thought would be
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Governing.com: 13th Floor
Nov 17
Streetfilms: Veronica Moss Goes to Times Square
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She's back! Veronica Moss, D.C. lobbyist for the Automobile User Trade Organization (A.U.T.O.), recently returned to New York to get her first look at the new, pedestrian-friendly Times Square.
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Streetsblog
Nov 17
Solving Downtown Sacramento's Problems With An Arena
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The environmental impact report for the huge Sacramento rail yards redevelopment project was upheld earlier this month by Superior Court Judge Lloyd Connolly.
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California Planning & Development Report Blogs
Nov 17
A Treeline Story
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Some of the highest growing trees in the world are also the oldest—bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) from the Great Basin in the western United States (eastern California, Nevada and Utah).
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RealClimate
Nov 17
Photo of the Week?
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A remarkably prescient photo from 1891:
No further comment needed, I think.
Hat tip to Nancy Hirsh.
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Nov 17
High Hopes — And Higher Standards — for Bloomberg 3.0
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Our series on the next four years of NYC transportation policy continues with today's essay from Joan Byron, Director of the Pratt Center for Community Development's Sustainability and Environment
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Streetsblog
Nov 17
How to Get More People Walking in Cincinnati?
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Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog UrbanCincy notes with deserved pride that Cincinnati was ranked the seventh-safest large city for pedestrians in the nation in Transportation for America'
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Streetsblog
Nov 17
Today’s Headlines
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Windshield Perspective Rules as Council Makes Mockery of Parking Laws (News, NYT, Post, Observer)
Silver Yields on Leandra's Law; Bill Requires Ignition Interlocks for Convicted DWI Offenders (N
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Streetsblog
Nov 16
I Will Stay If...
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The Cleveland edition of GLUE's "I Will Stay If..." campaign will take place on Wednesday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Speakeasy in Ohio City.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
Edgar Farm lease
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The Countryside Initiative is offering one farm for lease in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Edgar Farm in Valley View.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
Port Authority opinions
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In the wake of Adam Wasserman's departure from the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, a Plain Dealer editorial said that "the port has to change, and it will change if it wants its traje
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
Union Gospel Press restoration
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The $21 million renovation of the Union Gospel Press building in Tremont should be completed by the end of the year. About half of the units in the 175,000-square-foot complex have been rented.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
Akron CSO settlement
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The U.S. Department of Justice, the Ohio Attorney General, and Akron City Council approved the settlement of the lawsuit over the City's combined sewer overflows.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
Long Durations
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Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) Slowly, Surely Peeling Potatoes, from Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir.
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a456
Nov 16
Learning from TTI
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This week, I finally got around to looking at the latest (2009) Texas Transportation Institute study on traffic congestion. (1)
Two facts struck me as interesting. First, the great congestion surg
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Planetizen Interchange
Nov 16
Euclid Waterfront Improvements Plan
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The final draft of the Euclid Waterfront Improvements Plan (PDF) is available for public review, and the Euclid Planning and Zoning Commission will hold public hearings about the plan on Tuesday and W
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
Water quality reports
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The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District issued two reports: a survey of water quality and habitat in the middle Cuyahoga River (PDF) and an assessment of West Creek (PDF).
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
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