May 29
Rokakis on "preparing struggling communities for their next phase of development" : In a Plain Dealer op-ed, Jim Rokakis described the region's problems with abandoned houses and presented the arguments for a strategic demolition program....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
Natural Hair Care Act Passes in Oregon : Hair braiding, by flickr user stevendepoloIn a win for fairness and common sense, the state of Oregon will no longer subject people who practice African-style hair braiding (and other forms of natural...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 29
NYC: Citi Bike Membership Surges Past 20,000 — Smell the Desperation at the Post : Photo: @GemmaKaneko That acrid scent wafting from the News Corp....
Streetsblog
May 29
NYC: Daily News Tries Race-Baiting to Gin Up Controversy Over Safer Streets : Is either of these Inwood cyclists invincible in traffic? Ask the Daily News. Photo: Brad Aaron It’s truly amazing how much work the tabloids put into opposing measures that save lives....
Streetsblog
May 29
Brookings job sprawl report : The latest report on job sprawl by Elizabeth Kneebone of the Brookings Institution said that the recession "helped drive a slight uptick in urban core job share in more than half of the nation's large...
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
Bus transportation making an impact: an update from the BRT world : TransMilenio BRT system, Bogotá, Colômbia....
The City Fix
May 29
Ghost War : [Image: A "ghost" tank; image via PBS]....
Bldgblog
May 29
Ghost War : [Image: A "ghost" tank; image via PBS]....
BLDGBLOG
May 29
Recent Housing Center reports : The Housing Research & Advocacy Center issued two of its yearly reports....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
2030 District gets grant : A $175,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation enabled the the Cleveland 2030 District to hire architect Jon Reidy as its executive director (PDF)....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
NYC: Why Joe Rides : Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov Joe Zaro owns Zaro’s, a local chain of bakeries with locations in Grand Central and Penn Station, among others....
Streetsblog
May 29
Worcester Union Station Bus Hub brings better access, more transportation options : Nearly a year ago, in June 2012, I visited Union Station in Worcester, Massachusetts, to see the progress the Worcester Regional Transit Authority had made rehabilitating the city's important transpor...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 29
Brownfields Are Just Untapped Assets : President Obama has made revitalizing local communities that have been hit hard by the decline of manufacturing a priority, said Jay Williams, the new White House deputy director of intergovernmental...
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 29
Shaping the City with Horticulture: Parks and Plazas : The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society just organized a conference on Civic Horticulture in Philadelphia....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 29
Strongsville interchange proposal : Leaders in Strongsville hope that funding from the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission will be used to build more noise barriers along the Ohio Turnpike and Interstate 71....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
Take Part in Global Site Plans’ Inaugural #thegrid Chat on Twitter : Wednesday, June 5th at 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT Join Global Site Plans on Twitter on Wednesday, June 5th from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT for a live Twitter chat....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 29
NYC: Today’s Headlines : A Peek at Four Visions for Penn Station From Architecture Firms Selected by MAS (NYT) 2nd Ave Sagas Blasts Bill Perkins For Obstructing 125th Street Bus Improvements CB 12 Requested Uptown Bike Lanes,...
Streetsblog
May 29
Wednesday briefing : Jones Lang LaSalle will manage 10.5M square of state-owned and leased office properties. Tennessean Lamar Alexander says 'no chance' TVA will be sold....
Property Scope
May 29
A Development for Fresh Food, Health and Wellness in New Orleans : An exciting transformation is taking place on the corner of Broad and Bienville in New Orleans, Louisiana. Construction is now underway on the ReFresh project, a 60,000 square foot development...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 29
Visit Public Square: The Congress for the New Urbanism’s CNU21 is Taking Requests : Have you ever been able to control what you learn in a class? You can with CNU21’s clever combination of MindMixer and all of the 202 courses offered at the conference: Public Square. CNU21<...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 29
Transbay Transit Center: San Francisco Builds a Visionary Transportation Hub : If you’ve ever taken Bay Area public transit, you’ll know that there are many options for traveling within and between cities....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 29
Moving into the Future: Planning for Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada Region : Following another dry winter in the Sierra Nevada Region, wildfire risks are on the rise in Northern California and the season has just begun....
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 29
Phase two casino plans : While skeptics have questioned whether the phase two casino in downtown Cleveland will ever be built, City officials are confident it will proceed....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
Free NY/NJ Ferry Service For Bicyclists? : The epic, years-long battle for converting one Holland Tunnel tube to a bicycle/pedestrian-only facility may find compromise in this proposed free ticket voucher program for bicycle-toting ferry passe...
Planetizen Interchange
May 29
Plan Bay Area Debate : The Antiplanner will be in Marin County, California tomorrow to debate Plan Bay Area, the “sustainability” plan for the nine-county region....
The Antiplanner
May 28
Put a Face on Climate Change : Photo: iStock.Scientist and Yale communications researcher Anthony Leiserowitz recently lamented that when it comes to climate change “You almost couldn’t design a problem that is a worse fit with our...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 28
NYC: To Reach 10,000 Bikes, DOT Looks to Sponsorships, Sandy Recovery Loan : With 6,000 bicycles, New York’s bike-share program is already the largest in the country....
Streetsblog
May 28
East Coast, West Coast – What about Our Coast? : Most Americans take it as an article of faith that there’s a strong connection and relationship between the major cities of the East and West coasts.  Indeed, there may be 3,000 miles separating Ne...
Newgeography.com
May 28
NYC: NYPD: 1,192 Pedestrians and Cyclists Injured, 11 Killed in Traffic in April : Image: NYPD Fifteen people were killed in New York City traffic in April, and 4,409 were injured, according to the latest NYPD crash data report [PDF]. As of the end of April, 56 pedestrians and cycli...
Streetsblog
May 28
NYC: Bike Habitat’s Charlie McCorkell: Citi Bike No Threat to NYC Bike Shops : Charlie McCorkell is a pioneering NYC bike advocate and the owner of one of the city’s most successful bike shops, Bicycle Habitat....
Streetsblog
May 28
CP&DR News Summary, May 28, 2013: Will Hollywood's Millenium Towers Fall? : Courtney Oustad Is 55 stories too high for a building in Hollywood? Neighbors think so -- especially when it will dwarf the iconic Capitol Records building next door....
California Planning & Development Report
May 28
For NHTSA, a safer summer means preventing heatstroke : With the Memorial Day weekend now in our rear-view mirrors, temperatures are heating up across the nation....
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 28
CP&DR News Summary, May 28, 2013: Will Hollywood's Millenium Towers Fall? : Courtney Oustad Is 55 stories too high for a building in Hollywood? Neighbors think so -- especially when it will dwarf the iconic Capitol Records building next door....
California Planning & Development Report Blogs
May 28
NYC: This Week: Nostrand Ave Select Bus, PPW Anniversary Ride : With all the excitement about bike-share launching this week, don’t forget the community-level meetings where your voice can help make a big difference....
Streetsblog
May 28
NYC: Why I-Hsing Rides : Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov I met I-Hsing on her morning commute from the South Street Seaport area, where she’d dropped off her kids at school, to her job near Bryant Park....
Streetsblog
May 28
Bike-sharing arrives in New York City via Citi Bike : Citi Bike, America’s largest bike-sharing system opened in New York City on Monday. Photo by shinya. New York City has joined the ranks of U.S. cities now offering bike-sharing systems....
The City Fix
May 28
Dewhirst, Heinz buy on Broadway : David Dewhirst and Mark Heinz have bought a pair of properties in the Broadway-Central Street corridor. The downtown developers recently acquired an empty warehouse on Broadway and a vacant lot on La...
Property Scope
May 28
NYC: Shameless: Daily News Tries Linking Death of Senior Cyclist to Bike-Share : A senior riding a bike in Bath Beach was killed by a motorist Monday, and the Daily News used the crash to criticize the city’s new bike-share system. Ignoring how he was killed, the Daily News exploi...
Streetsblog
May 28
NYC: Bloomberg Was on Fire at Yesterday’s Bike-Share Presser : Photo: Dmitry Gudkov Yesterday’s Citi Bike announcement was maybe the last occasion to see Michael Bloomberg answer a whole string of bike-related questions from the NYC press corps in one sitting....
Streetsblog
May 28
Logistics firm signs Miller's Building lease : Joe Petre, of Conversion Properties, passed along word that Chattanooga-based logistics firm American Access Transport has leased 9,000 square feet on the third floor of the Miller's Building. The Ga...
Property Scope
May 28
Detroit Windsor Truck Ferry protests Hazmat on Ambassador Bridge : 2013-05-28: The Detroit Windsor Truck Ferry (DWTF) presently carries most hazardous materials (hazmat) across the Detroit River a bit downstream of the Ambassador Bridge, but Michigan DOT is proposing...
Toll Roads News
May 28
The back door : Paul Bloom had another wonderful essay in a recent New Yorker ("The Baby in the Well: The case against empathy").  It is all about hard to achieve wisdom and perspective. "...[w]hen [Natalie] Holloway...
Peter Gordon's Blog
May 28
CNU 21: Day 1 : Welcome to CNU 21. The Strong Towns Team is planning a lot of cool stuff, from some blog posts to some video and audio. We'll link to it all here as the days unfold....
Strong Towns
May 28
Civic Horticulture: Productive Gardens : The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society just organized a conference on Civic Horticulture in Philadelphia....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 28
Civic Horticulture: The Street : The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society just organized a conference on Civic Horticulture in Philadelphia....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 28
On Memorial Day, honoring the service of merchant mariners : This past weekend we celebrated Memorial Day, honoring the courage, sacrifice, and heroism of the many men and women of our Armed Services. On Monday, Deputy Maritime Administrator Paul “Chip” Jaenich...
Welcome to the Fast Lane
May 28
Heading to Salt Lake City : Sitting here at MSP with Justin Burslie, waiting to board a flight to CNU in Salt Lake City....
Strong Towns
May 28
The Preservation of the Mariani-Teruggi House: La Plata, Argentina : The destruction of this house located on 30th Street between 55th and 56th in the city of La Plata, Argentina is a testimony of the history of the country. The destruction of the Mari...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 28
Pedestrians, Cyclists and Public Transit Users: Big Spenders : I often do my shopping by bicycle, but regularly find it difficult to find a safe place to lock my bike on commercial strips in the city. While some businesses have taken it upon themselves to install...
Global Site Plans: The Grid
May 28
NYC: Today’s Headlines : Bike-Share Headlines: Bike-Share Debuts, Giving New Yorkers a New Transit Option (NYT, AP, WSJ, News) In First Six Hours, Bike-Share Logged 6,050 Trips, 13,768 Miles, And Totaled 16,...
Streetsblog
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