May 15
Should the speed limit on arterial roads increase? : An arterial road in China....
The City Fix
May 15
Permanent Supportive Housing Helps Struggling Veterans Recover : Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE by Maya Brennan, Cen...
NHC Open House Blog
May 15
NYC: City Council Members Joining Citi Bike: The Tally Grows : Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer is no stranger to bicycling. Now he's joined Citi Bike. Will his colleagues join him?...
Streetsblog
May 15
Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts: Hunts Point, Bronx : In our third of a series of profiles of Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCDs) around the five boroughs, Joey de Jesus takes us on a tour of Hunts Point, Bronx...
Urban Omnibus
May 15
Northwest Fossil Fuel Exports: New Sightline Report for Canada : In British Columbia’s provincial elections yesterday, the right-of-center Liberal party pulled off an astonishing upset to hang onto power....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 15
Ann Arbor Bridge Replacement connects communities...safely : As Secretary of Transportation, there have been few things more satisfying to me than seeing this Department put men and women to work improving safety in communities across America....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 15
NYC: Leroy Comrie Bill Would Force NYPD to Report to Council on Hit-and-Runs : Queens City Council Member Leroy Comrie is set to introduce a bill that may have an impact on how NYPD approaches hit-and-run crashes, which kill dozens of NYC pedestrians and cyclists a year. Leroy C...
Streetsblog
May 15
KPMG moving downtown : Big Four accounting firm KPMG announced this week that it is relocating its audit, tax and advisory practices from West Knoxville to First Tennessee Plaza. KPMG is currently located on North Peters R...
Property Scope
May 15
How Electricity and TV Diffused the "Population Bomb" : In the late sixties, India was the poster child of Third World poverty. In 1965, the monsoon rains failed to arrive, food production crashed, and much of the country was on the brink of starving....
Newgeography.com
May 15
Law firm eyes JCPenney building : This morning's column highlighted the financing plan for the JCPenney Building, and it included an interesting tidbit. The plan envisions selling a portion of the building for just over $2 million....
Property Scope
May 15
San Francisco Establishes Affordable Housing Fund : In November 2012, San Francisco voters passed Proposition C, establishing a city-wide affordable housing fund on the enormous margin of 31%....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 15
Engaging Citizens to Improve Neighborhoods with Neighborland : Neighborland was born out of a street art project by Candy Chang, where nametag-like stickers reading “I wish this were a __________” invited the passerby to imagine possibilities for empty storefront...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 15
Achieving Equity in a World of Social Disparity: #thegrid Discusses Urban Planning Challenges and Solutions to Achieving Social Equity and Inclusiveness : How do you achieve social equity and inclusiveness through urban planning? In order to answer this question, we must first define these terms....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 15
European Influences on Early American Planning: A Review and Summary of “Town Planning in Frontier America” by John Reps : This is the third post in a three-part series reviewing and summarizing the CNU21 suggested reading list....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 15
NYC: Today’s Headlines : The Times and Bike Snob Examine Bike-Share NIMBYs Citi Bike Passes 10,000 Members Two Weeks Before Opening Day (DNA) DOT Re-Evaluates Some Bike-Share Stations (Team Tish, News) WNYC and The Record Exp...
Streetsblog
May 15
Thinking Globally, Building Locally: CNU21 Preview Podcast Summary : This post summarizes the CNU21 Preview Podcast, “Thinking Globally, Building Locally.” CNU21 is this year’s annual Congress for the New Urbanism conference and will be held at the...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 15
Communities Working Together: The Lake Tahoe Sustainability Collaborative : “There is growing concern for the issue of sustainability — whether the Earth’s resources will be able to meet the demands of a growing human population that has rising aspirations for consumption and...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 15
Wednesday briefing : Kern's Bakery makes 'Fragile 15' list. KNS City Council OKs tax deal for former KUB building. KNS Missy Wallen, of BB&T, to retire in July. KNS Salsarita's sees continued growth with 8th store....
Property Scope
May 15
Tyranny Lafayette : While Plan Bay Area is terrorizing the San Francisco area, Plan Lafayette is doing the same to the much smaller community of Lafayette, Louisiana (city population 125,000; parish population 225,000)....
The Antiplanner
May 14
Tolls restored Penn Pike H'burg as mainlanes I-81 reopened : 2013-05-14: The Pennsylvania Turnpike restored tolls late Monday night in the 21 mile, 34km leg south of Harrisburg -  IC226 I-81 to IC247 I-283 - that has served as a detour for I-81 since last Thurs...
Toll Roads News
May 14
Throwing Metro Under the Bus : Metro service cuts hearingHere’s a picture of hundreds of people who crowded into a hearing room Tuesday to protest looming and massive bus cuts at King County Metro....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 14
Nearly Unknown in the West: Sub-Saharan Africa’s Cultural Landscapes : According to Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye, University of Delaware, “there has been no scholarly work that explores African landscapes that doesn’t somehow implicate the Europeans.” That statement may...
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 14
Fare-free transit, Houston beats Austin, better commuter transit, and more : Continuing to work through the backlog of smaller misc items... Join the Save the Astrodome group on Facebook....
Houston Strategies
May 14
NYC: Bike-Share and the Mistake of Placing Too Much Stock in NIMBY Sentiment : The wisdom in Matt Flegenheimer’s bike-share NIMBY opus comes across nicely in the kicker: Nearby, on University Place, Alfred Haffenden, 71, sat between a bike station and his table of available cons...
Streetsblog
May 14
NYC: Give to Streetsblog By Thursday and You Could Win Goodies From Planet Bike : Thanks to everyone who’s given to Streetsblog and Streetfilms so far in our spring pledge drive — we’re nearly a quarter of the way to our fundraising goal of $40,000....
Streetsblog
May 14
New locomotives carry America's rail renaissance forward : What if we took the most popular passenger rail corridor in America and improved it with a fleet of 70 new electric locomotives?...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 14
NYC: Eyes on the Street: Checking Out Books at Putnam Plaza : The Uni, a portable library, visited the Putnam Plaza on Sunday as part of a FAB Friday event....
Streetsblog
May 14
The Extinction Orchestra : [Images: From Marguerite Humeau's Opera of Prehistoric Creatures; photos by Stuart Bailes and Felipe Ribon]....
BLDGBLOG
May 14
The Extinction Orchestra : [Images: From Marguerite Humeau's Opera of Prehistoric Creatures; photos by Stuart Bailes and Felipe Ribon]....
Bldgblog
May 14
NYC: Elba Granizo, 75, Killed by Motorist in Elmhurst : Roosevelt Avenue and 90th Street, where senior Elba Granizo was struck and killed by a driver last Sunday....
Streetsblog
May 14
NYC: Parks Department Detours Hudson River Greenway in Harlem Until December : The closed section of the path, looking north from 133rd Street. The Hudson River Greenway between 133rd Street and 135th Street in West Harlem is closed until December, with users instructed to use 1...
Streetsblog
May 14
Industry Pollution Expert Calls for Comprehensive Review of Coal Transport Along Railways : Roger O. McClellan is regularly trotted out by coal export backers whenever they are trying to dismiss concerns about coal dust pollution....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 14
Medical Arts pix : Developer Tom Grace on Tuesday gave a tour of the Medical Arts Building, which is slated for a major renovation. Grace's team is looking to convert the office property to 49 apartments and three reta...
Property Scope
May 14
Promoting ridesharing for the daily commute in Mumbai : An auto-rickshaw transports passengers in Gujarat, India....
The City Fix
May 14
A Toronto Condo Bubble? : Toronto has experienced a virtual explosion in high rise condominium construction in recent years, especially in the downtown area....
Newgeography.com
May 14
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Marty Golden and David Weprin Among Politicos Who Consider Themselves Above Traffic Rules (Post) City Hires Firms to Improve Public Realm Along With Midtown East Rezoning (DCP via Curbed) Elba Granizo...
Streetsblog
May 14
The Driving Boom is Over : The Driving Boom -- a six decade long period of steady increases in per-capita driving in the United States -- is over. So says a new report from the U.S....
Strong Towns
May 14
Cultura Ambiental: A Paradigm Shift for the People of Buenos Aires : In 2010, Siemens and The Economist published the first reliable index ranking for green cities worldwide....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 14
Tidal Wave Energy: Is it Ecologically Sustainable? : Global energy demand continues to grow and tidal wave energy generation devices can provide a significant source of renewable energy....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 14
An Update on the Reconstruction of the Turcot Interchange in Montréal, Canada : In December 2011, a former Grid blogger, Yosef Robinson, wrote a piece about the reconstruction of the Turcot Interchange, a major highway junction in Montreal, Canada....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 14
Tuesday briefing : Knoxville budget aims to expand downtown momentum. KNS Cosby man to serve no prison time in plea to bicyclist's 2011 death. KNS School board discusses future of historic Knoxville High....
Property Scope
May 14
15,000 Agents: A* Pathfinding : Games engines such as Unity are the perfect platform for agent based modelling, they allow a combination of 3D urban cityscapes and navmeshes/grid graphs/point graphs and local avoidance systems....
Digital Urban
May 13
Toll express lanes can get investment grade ratings but it will be tough - Moody's : 2013-05-13: The New York investment rater Moody's says in a new report that toll express or managed lane projects can achieve investment grade ratings, but it will be tough....
Toll Roads News
May 13
As Usual, California Density Goes Its Own Way -- Up! : William Fulton Well, California's at it again -- going in a different direction than the rest of the country.The Census Bureau recently released a new report showed that -- by at lea...
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
May 13
CP&DR News Summary, May 14, 2013: Is Union Station Ready For That Closeup, Mr. DeMille? : Courtney Oustad Preliminary plans were recently revealed  Los Angeles's 77-year old union station modernization project....
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
May 13
CP&DR News Summary, May 14, 2013: Is Union Station Ready For That Closeup, Mr. DeMille? : Courtney Oustad Preliminary plans were recently revealed  Los Angeles's 77-year old union station modernization project....
California Planning & Development Report
May 13
As Usual, California Density Goes Its Own Way -- Up! : William Fulton Well, California's at it again -- going in a different direction than the rest of the country.The Census Bureau recently released a new report showed that -- by at lea...
California Planning & Development Report
May 13
Changing the Water in the Fish Tank : David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, now a viral video, misses an essential truth....
Planetizen Interchange
May 13
My Lucky Stroke : A lucky stroke reveals big gaps in how our health care system diagnoses and treats the country's biggest source of disability....
Dot Earth
May 13
This National Transportation Week, celebrate America's opportunity network : In millions of transportation-related jobs in the United States-- from the U.S....
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