Jun 3
Impact of Sports Facilities: Unveiling the New $975 million Football Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota : On May 13, 2013, the schematic design for the new Vikings Football Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota was unveiled to the public....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 3
Parametric Design and Manufacturing: Cipher City Landing in Athens, Greece : Parametric design and manufacturing, that seem to be in good tune with micro scale projects, are gaining more and more space in the architecture schools programs all over the world....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 3
NYC: Today’s Headlines : 18-Year-Old Cyclist Killed by Motorist in East Harlem (DNA) Lines Form as Citi Bike Opens to Everyone (NYT, WSJ, Post, NY1, AMNY) WSJ Editorial Board Member Dorothy Rabinowitz Denounces the Privileged...
Streetsblog
Jun 3
Monday briefing : Boutique butcher shop set to open in Bearden. KNS Lakeshore Park playground to be constructed in boy's memory. KNS KNS photo/Amy Smotherman Burgess...
Property Scope
Jun 3
Yamal and Polar Urals: a research update : Guest commentary from Tim Osborn, Tom Melvin and Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit, UEA Records of tree-ring characteristics such as their width (TRW) and density (usually the maximum densit...
RealClimate
Jun 3
A Look Back at Oregon’s Senate Bill 100 : Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the passage of Oregon’s “landmark” land-use law, known as Senate Bill 100, a columnist with the Salem Statesman-Journal looks back at the history of the passage a...
The Antiplanner
Jun 2
A Tornado Chaser Falls Doing Extreme Science : A potent tornado kills a storm-chasing scientist, two colleagues and seven others....
Dot Earth
Jun 2
Sarah Susanka’s Not So Big Plenary: A Summary of the Friday Morning Plenary at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Sarah Susanka has written nine books for her best-selling “Not So Big” series....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 2
Collaborative Consumption is Quickly Gaining Ground: The New Economy of Sharing at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Lee Sobel, a Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst for the U.S....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
Jun 1
CNU 21: Closing Plenary : It is a great honor to be asked to speak at the closing plenary. Thank you for all of those that stuck around....
Strong Towns
Jun 1
Costa Rican Turtle Defender Found Slain on the Beach He Patrolled : A young Costa Rican conservationist is slain after warning about ties between sea turtle poaching and drug trafficking....
Dot Earth
Jun 1
Unforced Variations: June 2013 : June’s open thread…...
RealClimate
Jun 1
Unbelievable Chutzpah: Going Over the Line : I have reblogged this post from my other blog, The Scholar's Survival Manual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Ed Klein...
This Week's Finds in Planning
Jun 1
Lack of Participatory Planning is to Blame: Istanbul, Turkey Faces-Off on Day-Five : As a foreigner making her home in Istanbul, Turkey, I feel honored to hear the noise in the streets, the sounds of banging pots and traditional Turkish coffee carafes, honking horns, and chant...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
New Urbanism, Meet the Third World: The Charter Awards at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : The Charter Awards are annual awards given to projects submitted by students and professionals by the Congress for the New Urbanism at the annual Congress. A group of carefully chosen...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
Integrating Our Aging Population Into Mixed Use Communities: The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Jon Dauphine, Senior Vice President of Education and Outreach for AARP, said that in 2007, there were 37 million people in the U.S. over the age of 65....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
Is the “Great American Grid” Even American?: The Great American Grid Debate at The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Susan Mudd, who has attended 20 out of the 21 Congress for the New Urbanism annual congresses and is John Norquist’s wife, explained to me that the reason why CNU has chosen to call their annual gathe...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
Lean Urbanism with Andrés Duany: Thursday Morning Plenary of The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 : Founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and Congress for the New Urbanism cofounder, Andrés Duany, discussed the post-recession future of new urbanism. His major theme was...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
Toll account management 'apps' allow motorists with smartphones to check balance make toll payments etc : 2013-05-31: North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) is offering for free download an 'app' for smartphones that allows TollTag customers to manage their accounts anywhere....
Toll Roads News
May 31
The Quandary of Suburban Poverty : For Release Sunday, June 2, 2013 © 2013 Washington Post Writers Group Luis Ubiñas knows what poverty is all about. Today he’s president of the Ford Foundation....
Citiwire.net
May 31
Sprawl’s Hidden Problem: Wasting Public Money : For Release Friday, May 31, 2013 Citiwire.net It’s no secret that mayors and other local leaders around the country are searching for ways to balance municipal and state finances. Last month, the Gove...
Citiwire.net
May 31
Welcome to Citiwire.net – May 31 : Welcome to Citiwire.net....
Citiwire.net
May 31
EAGLE Project Progress – Trains! : RTD has shared the first video of their new electric multiple unit (EMU) commuter rail vehicles moving under their own power at the Hyundai Rotem plant in South Korea!...
DenverUrbanism
May 31
Roundup — New Visions for Penn Station, Elevating Buildings, NYC as City-State, Upsides of Insularity, and Process and Progress : Four MAS commissioned proposals for the future of Madison Square Gardens, Clockwise from Top Left: H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, SHoP Architects, Skidmore, Owings & Me...
Urban Omnibus
May 31
NYC: DOT Working on Maintenance Initiative to Expand Reach of Plaza Program : DOT’s plaza program has brought new public spaces to neighborhoods across the city, and even most City Council members can appreciate that....
Streetsblog
May 31
NYC: Why Stephanie Rides : Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov Stephanie had just commuted from Chelsea to her job in the Time-Life Building in Midtown, where she works in magazine publishing. “I don’t have a bike at home – my co-op...
Streetsblog
May 31
2013 Brooklyn Film Festival : It gets bigger every year. The 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival begins tonight and runs through June 9th....
Urban Omnibus
May 31
NYC: Caption Contest: Anthony Weiner on a Citi Bike : Photo: NY Mag I don’t care if this is a carefully choreographed photo op. For one day, at least, we’re not going to run a picture of the Weinermobile in a post about Anthony Weiner....
Streetsblog
May 31
NYC: The Weekly Carnage : The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs and beyond....
Streetsblog
May 31
Major Tar Sands Pipeline Rejected : Huge news out of British Columbia just now: the province is officially rejecting plans to build the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 31
Experts Foresee No Detectable Health Impact from Fukushima Radiation : A new international assessment of the Fukushima nuclear disaster foresees no discernable rise in health risks in Japan....
Dot Earth
May 31
NYC: Now That Citi Bike Is Live, Will All Cyclist Injuries Be Newsworthy? : Now that Citi Bike is live, the media are apparently paying close attention to traffic crashes that injure cyclists....
Streetsblog
May 31
NYC: TWU Still Backs Bill Perkins After He Leaves 125th Street Riders in the Lurch : State Senator Bill Perkins successfully pressured DOT into shrinking its plan for Select Bus Service on 125th Street in Harlem....
Streetsblog
May 31
Dots to connect : This morning's LA Times editorializes about the "The 501(c)(4) fiasco ... the public needs to be assured that the IRS can enforce the law independently and fairly ......
Peter Gordon's Blog
May 31
Homeownership and Financial Well-being : Adam, Stephen, and I have previously written on some of the downsides of homeownership from an urbanist perspective; owner-occupied units are biased toward being single family homes, and when owner-oc...
Market Urbanism
May 31
NYC: Citi Bike Has Already Surpassed 10,000 Trips Per Day : Photo: People Looking at Citi Bike Bike-share users made 10,099 trips, and annual membership continued to surge in the third full 24-hour period of usage stats that Citi Bike is reporting. Usage betwe...
Streetsblog
May 31
NYC: Which City Council Member Will Call for Bike-Share Expansion Next? : Council Members Stephen Levin, Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Jimmy Van Bramer want bike-share to expand in their districts....
Streetsblog
May 31
Weekend Reading 5/31/13 : Alan Bill McKibben crushed this interview with an Australian TV station....
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 31
The Trouble With ‘Civic Media’ Studies : On the Radical Anti-Institutionalism of Internet Intellectuals I recently attended a talk by Ethan Zuckerman, the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media advertised as addressing t...
The Goodspeed Update
May 31
Take Back the Asphalt : Cities find that when space reserved for cars is given over to other uses, lots of great things happen....
Dot Earth
May 31
Chipotle planned on Peters Road : Burritos and banking go together -- at least they will in West Knoxville. Pigeon Forge-based SmartBank is planning a branch at the corner of Peters Road and Cedar Bluff Road, but the project includes...
Property Scope
May 31
Improved access to and from key Texas port spells opportunity for truckers, shippers : One of the most important things we've done at DOT in the past four and a half years is to provide good stewardship for the $48 billion in economic stimulus funds that were invested in America's trans...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 31
Friday briefing : Market 211 offers event space, lodging on Market Square. KNS Only 70k cubic yards of fly ash remain in Roane spill site. KNS TVA suffers blow, loses biggest customer....
Property Scope
May 31
Friday Fun: 4 Lessons from the Urban Data Challenge : A San Francisco, California, streetcar plies Market Street, near the Embarcadero....
The City Fix
May 31
NYC: Today’s Headlines : $185 Million in Federal Sandy Funds Will Flood-Proof Amtrak Gateway Tunnel (DNA, News, CapNY) 30 Percent of Citi Bike Members Are Women; JSK: “We’ve Got to Do Better” (Velojoy) Hot Ride: Man Faces Lar...
Streetsblog
May 31
Captive America: An Interview with Alyse Emdur : [Image: Prison Visiting Room Backdrop, Woodbourne Correctional Facility, New York; photograph by Alyse Emdur]....
Bldgblog
May 31
Captive America: An Interview with Alyse Emdur : [Image: Prison Visiting Room Backdrop, Woodbourne Correctional Facility, New York; photograph by Alyse Emdur]....
BLDGBLOG
May 31
CNU 21: Day 3 : If you are here in Salt Lake City today, we're going to be doing a podcast or two in the main conference hotel....
Strong Towns
May 31
Ano Poli, Thessaloniki: The Charm of Architectural Integrity : In almost every city, there is a specific area that everyone visits to spend hours just walking, taking photos, and relaxing....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 31
Midnight Tram Through Nottingham: The Economic Impact of Tramlines : Tramways have a greater impact on communities than local governments give them....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
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