Viewed on: Nov 22, 2009
Nov 16
Cleveland Cold Storage building
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The owner of the Cleveland Cold Storage building says that he has been treated unfairly by the Ohio Department of Transportation.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
Lecture recaps
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Dru McKeown summarized Douglas Farr's recent lecture, and Rust Wire reported on Timothy Beatley's talk last week. Both spoke about sustainable urbanism.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 16
No Tuna Surprise
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Conservationists and U.S. officials say quotas for catching bluefin tuna in the Atlantic were not lowered enough to restore the species.
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Dot Earth
Nov 16
A Climate Communicator's Indian Journey
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A journalist's journey through India reveals the potent divisions over climate change between communities with and without wealth and access to energy.
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Dot Earth
Nov 16
Consumption Illustrated
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Did you know that in the United States we consume
60,000 plastic bags every five seconds?
106,000 aluminum cans every thirty seconds?
two million plastic beverage bottles every five minutes?
Sounds l
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Sightline - The Daily Score blog
Nov 16
Metropolis Art Prize: Drift
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The Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize now has over 450 individual entries from five continents.
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Digital Urban
Nov 16
“Building Cities Shouldn’t Be a Partisan Issue”
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Over the weekend, we came across an article from the Isthmus of Madison, Wisconsin, reporting on a conservative scaremongering campaign against a commuter rail proposal.
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Streetsblog
Nov 16
Automobility and Freedom: Conflicts and Resolutions
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Much of my work involves developing transportation demand management and smart growth policies which improve travel options (walking, cycling, public transit, carsharing, etc.), reform pricing and tra
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Planetizen Interchange
Nov 16
Monday's Numbers and Noteworthy News
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Noteworthy News
Commercial Mortgage Alert mortgage spreads based upon a weekly survey of 15 active portfolio lenders conducted by Trepp, the analytics firm.
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The Ground Floor
Nov 16
Today’s Headlines
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City Council Wants Its Lax Parking Enforcement Law, Has the Votes to Override Bloomberg (AMNY)
Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Bronx Woman at Grand Concourse; CT Man Killed on Bx River Parkway (News)
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Streetsblog
Nov 16
The Movement to Driverless Cars
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The idea of driverless cars is beginning to catch on. An intermediate step, road trains, is being planned in various parts of Europe.
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The Antiplanner
Nov 16
Living above the big box
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Sometimes a giant supermarket or big box store like Home Depot coming to your neighborhood is an inevitability, but The RISE in Vancouver, Canada proves it doesn’t have to be a one-story warehouse sur
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CoolTown Studios
Nov 15
Dutch Cabinet Approves Kilometer Tax
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The Dutch Cabinet approved legislation Friday that would tax drivers per kilometer driven. Parliament still needs to pass it before it can become law. Ownership and sales taxes on autos would be abo
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Net Density
Nov 15
Arrested Development Recap
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If economic troubles haven’t already prompted us to reassess current development trends, a panel that assembled November 7 at Cooper Union’s Great Hall certainly could.
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Urban Omnibus
Nov 15
Somewhere Between Blight and Gentrification...
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Is there a happy medium between the run-down liquor store and
the gourmet shop?
What is the best form of Main Street retail, as people move
back to the city and re-emergent neighborhoods acquire sh
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Planetizen Interchange
Nov 15
Shelved in the Sky
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I couldn't resist this photo of a man blown off his feet by high winds on the British coast.[Image: Photo by Steve Poole/Rex Features, via the Guardian].How could we take better spatial advanta
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Bldgblog
Nov 15
Messianic Urbanism
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I mentioned Tom Zoellner's book Uranium the other day, in the context of atomic geology, but there is another brief comment in that book worth calling attention to here.
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Bldgblog
Nov 15
Messianic Urbanism
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I mentioned Tom Zoellner's book Uranium the other day, in the context of atomic geology, but there is another brief comment in that book worth calling attention to here.
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BLDGBLOG
Nov 15
Shelved in the Sky
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I couldn't resist this photo of a man blown off his feet by high winds on the British coast.[Image: Photo by Steve Poole/Rex Features, via the Guardian].How could we take better spatial advanta
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BLDGBLOG
Nov 15
Searching for Greenwash at Greenbuild
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I'll admit to entering the halls of Greenbuild — the mammoth green building conference and expo, held last week in Phoenix — with a cynical theory: Greenbuild would be filled with greenwash.
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Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward
Nov 14
Reactions to changing Medical Mart plans
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MMPI's announcement that they now intend to build the Medical Mart at the northern edge of Mall C surprised Cleveland leaders, and they are concerned about the proposed changes.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
Pearl Road wind turbine
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The new wind turbine at Pearl Road Auto Parts in Cleveland began producing electricity on Friday. It was erected in September.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
Metroparks GIS tools
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The Cleveland Metroparks are using geographic information systems technologies to help manage their 22,000-acre network of parks.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
Groundbreaking in Twinsburg
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The Cleveland Clinic held a groundbreaking ceremony on November 5 for the $96 million Twinsburg Family Health & Surgery Center. The 190,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in 2011.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
Shifting retail landscape
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The new 147,244-square-foot Costco in Strongsville is scheduled to open next week. Meanwhile, specialty grocer Chandler & Rudd in Shaker Heights closed earlier this month after 145 years of business.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
All You Can Eat multimedia
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Materials from the recent All You Can Eat event are now available online, including a project gallery and video of the panel discussion.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
The Road To Recovery
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A new report from Policy Matters Ohio examined the distribution patterns of transportation projects funded by federal stimulus dollars.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
Cycling for Clinic employees
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The Earth Day Coalition highlighted the Cleveland Clinic's efforts to encourage bicycle commuting.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
West Orange zoning overlay
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Chagrin Falls Village Council approved a zoning overlay for the proposed 11-unit residential development on West Orange Street. Some residents disagreed with the decision.
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Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
Nov 14
LA story
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Friday's LA Times reported "Gold Line links downtown to East LA ...
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Peter Gordon's Blog
Nov 14
Road Trains: The Best of Both Worlds?
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The idea of “road trains”, a group of cars using advanced technology to form a caravan of cars driven semi-autonomously, arose from two different sources this week.
The (in)famous Antiplanner, Randall
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Net Density
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