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Richey Piiparinen | Rustwire | Jan 26th, 2012 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: Midwest | Cities: Cleveland |
A big-box retailer wants to open a branch in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville. Supportive politicos say it won’t bring the harm that most chains do, however, because it doesn’t resemble a typical megastore. Richey Piiparinen explains why they’re wrong—and points a finger at the sprawl lobby. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Feb 8th, 2011 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
David Brooks praises cities, TD Bank builds a net-zero energy branch, and sprawl begets sprawl. (
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Karl Magi | Jan 10th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
A conversation with Tai Ziola, a young architect whose approach to the issue of suburban sprawl encompasses LEED compliant housing, renewing urban areas and creating a denser social fabric for inner-city neighborhoods. (
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Karl Magi | Jan 7th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Today, a conversation with an architect with a vision of revitalizing inner cities and building “slow homes” rather than cookie-cutter suburban boxes: John Brown of housebrand. (
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Karl Magi | Jan 6th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles |
An interview with John Davis of pieceHomes, who’s out to convince the mega-mansion crowd that they’ll love his company’s mid-sized, high-efficiency modular dwellings. (
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Karl Magi | Jan 5th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: Seattle |
The first in a four-part series about a new generation of planners and architects that’s beginning to look at sustainable, human-centered solutions to the creeping suburbs. (
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Willy Staley | Mar 23rd, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Built Environment | Region: Central, West Coast | Cities: Phoenix, Washington, D.C. |
Willy Staley writes about the work Senator Chris Dodd is doing to incentivize smart growth (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Feb 12th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Nov 5th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Barack Obama (city) + Joe Biden (transit) = awesomeness for American cities (
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Holly Otterbein | Oct 15th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles |
Last week, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 375 into law, thereby mandating that the state curb its rampant sprawl patterns. The bill also seeks to cut greenhouse gases. Is it too good to be true? (
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A big-box retailer wants to open a branch in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville. Supportive politicos say it won’t bring the harm that most chains do, however, because it doesn’t resemble a typical megastore. Richey Piiparinen explains why they’re wrong—and points a finger at the sprawl lobby. (keep reading…)
David Brooks praises cities, TD Bank builds a net-zero energy branch, and sprawl begets sprawl. (keep reading…)
A conversation with Tai Ziola, a young architect whose approach to the issue of suburban sprawl encompasses LEED compliant housing, renewing urban areas and creating a denser social fabric for inner-city neighborhoods. (keep reading…)
Today, a conversation with an architect with a vision of revitalizing inner cities and building “slow homes” rather than cookie-cutter suburban boxes: John Brown of housebrand. (keep reading…)
An interview with John Davis of pieceHomes, who’s out to convince the mega-mansion crowd that they’ll love his company’s mid-sized, high-efficiency modular dwellings. (keep reading…)
The first in a four-part series about a new generation of planners and architects that’s beginning to look at sustainable, human-centered solutions to the creeping suburbs. (keep reading…)
Willy Staley writes about the work Senator Chris Dodd is doing to incentivize smart growth (keep reading…)
