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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Aug 4th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: |
The second of a two-part series describes the transformation of a pedestrian mall into an active street. (
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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Aug 2nd, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: |
The first of a two-part series describes the transformation of a forlorn pedestrian mall into an active street. (
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Simmons Buntin | Sep 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Denver |
Simmons Buntin concludes his tour of New Urbanist Denver with urban planner Carolyn Dooling by visiting Lowry in Denver, Belmar in Lakewood, and Iris Hollow and the Holiday Neighborhood in Boulder. (
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Jeremy Rosenberg | Jul 14th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Austin, Los Angeles |
The tops of L.A.‘s buildings are bland as a smogless sunset. But at least this design saves lives — right? (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jul 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real? (
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Dave Steele | May 19th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: Central | Cities: Milwaukee |
After forty years in the statistical doldrums, what does Milwaukee make of a sudden, slight increase in population? Local expert and urban enthusiast Dave Steele reports. (
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Jeffrey Hill | May 6th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: San Francisco |
Last month, NAC’s Michelle Kuly and Pooja Shah visited San Francisco last month for the “Space in the City” symposium, subscriber cocktail party at Swig and EcoCity 2008 conference. Michelle even penned a thank you haiku to friends and supporters. More… (
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Meredith Aska McBride | Apr 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston |
Hospitals’ stir fears, sect youths conditioned to deceive outsiders, Olympic torch relay switches route and more in today’s headlines.
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Brendan Crain | Apr 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000. It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children. And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment? Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Apr 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Austin, Dallas |
Tibetan protesters continue their focus on China’s olympic march, UPenn students win student urban design competition, Florida HUD returns to local control, Hispanics contribute $60 billion to the telecommunications industry ... this and more in today’s headlines. (
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The second of a two-part series describes the transformation of a pedestrian mall into an active street. (keep reading…)
The first of a two-part series describes the transformation of a forlorn pedestrian mall into an active street. (keep reading…)
Simmons Buntin concludes his tour of New Urbanist Denver with urban planner Carolyn Dooling by visiting Lowry in Denver, Belmar in Lakewood, and Iris Hollow and the Holiday Neighborhood in Boulder. (keep reading…)
The tops of L.A.‘s buildings are bland as a smogless sunset. But at least this design saves lives — right? (keep reading…)
New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real? (keep reading…)
After forty years in the statistical doldrums, what does Milwaukee make of a sudden, slight increase in population? Local expert and urban enthusiast Dave Steele reports. (keep reading…)
Last month, NAC’s Michelle Kuly and Pooja Shah visited San Francisco last month for the “Space in the City” symposium, subscriber cocktail party at Swig and EcoCity 2008 conference. Michelle even penned a thank you haiku to friends and supporters. More… (keep reading…)
The average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000. It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children. And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment? Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface. (keep reading…)
