Viewed on: May 25, 2013
May 15
KPMG moving downtown
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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"
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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
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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
NYC: Today’s Headlines
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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
Wednesday briefing
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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
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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
Throwing Metro Under the Bus
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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
The Extinction Orchestra
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[Images: From Marguerite Humeau's Opera of Prehistoric Creatures; photos by Stuart Bailes and Felipe Ribon]....
BLDGBLOG
May 14
The Extinction Orchestra
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[Images: From Marguerite Humeau's Opera of Prehistoric Creatures; photos by Stuart Bailes and Felipe Ribon]....
Bldgblog
May 14
Medical Arts pix
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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
A Toronto Condo Bubble?
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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
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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
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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
Tuesday briefing
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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
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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
As Usual, California Density Goes Its Own Way -- Up!
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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
As Usual, California Density Goes Its Own Way -- Up!
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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
My Lucky Stroke
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A lucky stroke reveals big gaps in how our health care system diagnoses and treats the country's biggest source of disability....
Dot Earth

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