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Street Science | Jan 14th, 2011 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Boston |
In Boston, a team of planners and architects is developing “complete streets”—remade roadways focused on improving quality of life for everyone, not just drivers. (
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Street Science | Jul 20th, 2010 | Topic: Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Jeanne Haffner talks with Eric Belsky, Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, to discuss the reliability of quantitative modeling in the wake of the mortgage crisis of 2008. (
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Street Science | Jun 29th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Jeanne Haffner looks at a new European initiative to encourage local governments to pursue sustainability initiatives, and one city that’s taking its carbon-neutral plan very seriously. (
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Street Science | Apr 30th, 2010 | Topic: Economy | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York, Washington, D.C. |
Jeanne Hafner wonders about ethics, real estate science, and ‘self-regulation’ in the wake of the Goldman Sachs hearings. (
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Street Science | Apr 14th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
Jeanne Haffner looks at the paper tube architecture of Shigeru Ban and its implications for the environment, philanthropy and aesthetics. (
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Street Science | Mar 25th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Boston |
In the latest entry of her column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner looks to history—and her readers—to determine whether, even in an age of computer modeling, hand drawing remains indispensable. (
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Street Science | Feb 17th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: Boston |
In the third installment of her new column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner visits Utile, Inc., a Boston-based planning and design firm, to better understand the importance of graphic representation in planning. (
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Street Science | Jan 25th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
There’s a study behind every urban planning improvement project. Yet how does one effectively analyze that complex entity we call a “city”? In the second installment of her new column, Jeanne Haffner will explore the technological and conceptual devices that planners and others use to do just this. Today: How drawing remains essential to design. (
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Street Science | Jan 22nd, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
There’s a study behind every urban planning improvement project. Yet how does one effectively analyze that complex entity we call a “city”? This Street Science column will explore the technological and conceptual devices that planners and others use to do just this. (
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