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Life in Pittsburgh ... With a Lot Less Car in It - The 12 Step Program (urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com)Bob Firth is a designer in Pittsburgh who has done a lot there over the decades, including designing the city's wayfinding signage system. In May, he had a piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about focusing cities, in this case Pittsburgh specifically, not on the car but on people, place, and more sustainable forms of transportation.
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There's money to be made by living near transit — Metropolitan Planning Council (www.metroplanning.org)Turns out New Urban Property Services, which bills itself as “Chicago’s only Transit-Oriented Real Estate Brokerage Company,” assists prospective renters and buyers in their search for apartments and homes near specific El stops and Metra stations – even allowing people to select how close to a station they want to be
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A national member-led organization committed to strengthening Canadian communities by creating better economic opportunities and enhancing environmental and social conditions is hoping Winnipeg might one day become a transition town.
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Why aren't bike paths built with roadwork? (thesudburystar.com)This letter is in support of the article written by Rachel Punch on the subject of unsafe cycling in Sudbury.I couldn't agree more. To see the amount of road work being done all over the city and area without a plan to include cycling lanes boggles the mind.
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More metered parking would change Sudbury ‘overnight’ - Kevin Closs (www.northernlife.ca)There is a simple, relatively cheap solution to many of Sudbury’s problems, including (the need for) safe cycling and walking, the decreasing urban tax base and (the need to improve) downtown spaces — metered parking.
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Rainbow parking in demand - (www.thesudburystar.com)The Rainbow Centre recently introduced a reserved parking system, meaning store staff and customers all have to follow and park in designated areas. It is due to a huge surge in demand for the mall's 1,000 plus parking spaces.The mall decided to alter the new system and have reserved parking on the rooftop and open parking on the enclosed main parking level.
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Transit for Livable Communities (www.tlcminnesota.org)Transit for Livable Communities is a nonprofit organization working to reform Minnesota's transportation system. Through advocacy, organizing, and research, we promote a balanced transportation system that encourages transit, walking, bicycling, and thoughtful development.
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WE PREVENT STREET SWEEPING TICKETS (theticketangels.com)The Ticket Angels was founded on a very basic need. To always remember to move our cars. My neighbor, Matt — co-founder of The Ticket Angels — had knocked on my door one day to let me know that if I didn’t move my car in the next 5 minutes I would get a 61 dollar street sweeping ticket.
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Townsquare™ (www.migtownsquare.com)Townsquare™ is the easy-to-use, web-based communication solution that helps you make better decisions, build stronger communities and improve public satisfaction.
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The Inclusive City : Content: (www.inclusivecity.com)A sample of what you'll find in the Inclusive City:
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11.Removing Street Signs For Safety's Sake (communities.canada.com)
Although the scheme was conceived in 2000, I only found out recently that the Dutch town of Drachten removed nearly all its traffic signals and signs in an effort to promote road safety.
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Parking Lots to Parks: Designing Livable Cities (blog.sustainablog.org)As I was being driven through Tel Aviv from my hotel to a conference center in 1998, I could not help but note the overwhelming presence of cars and parking lots.
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Complete Streets: What they are and why we need them (spacingtoronto.ca)Conversations about the architecture of Toronto’s streets tend to be terribly divisive. You’re either a cyclist or a driver
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14.Don't build more roundabouts Gord Slade Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)
Greater Sudbury taxpayers should not be paying $125,000 to lower the speeding by 2-3 km/hr on any street.
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Oh, blast! $50-M plan on hold (www.thesudburystar.com)More than $50 million worth of development got bogged down in Greater Sudbury's planning committee last night.After more than five hours of discussion, the city's planning committee agreed to adjourn without a decision on the second phase of the SmartCentres development along Countryside Road
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16.Public meeting Thursday on North Bay bike path (www.nugget.ca)
Sinclair met with more than 30 concerned residents last week who are worried about what a proposed bike path will do to their properties and the street the live, walk and drive on."We need some assurances that if a bike path is going to be on this part of the street there are going to be steps taken around speeding," Sinclair said Monday.
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+ Urban Project Bureau (www.urbanprojectsbureau.com)Urban Projects Bureau is a collaboration of architects, urbanists and academics, engaged in pioneering work in the fields of architecture and urbanism. Committed to spatial design as a transformative practice,
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Manual Representing Breakthrough on Walkable Streets (www.ite.org)City officials, planners, advocates and others who want to use the manual to make their streets more pedestrian- and business-friendly
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19.Bicycle accessibility needs to be improved - Andrew Gagnon (www.northernlife.ca)
Sudbury either needs to improve the bicycle accessibility throughout the city, so that people like me can get around the city safely, or Sudbury needs to get safer drivers.
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20.Pedalling a new downtown in Ottawa and Region (www.ottawasun.com)
Details of the city’s pilot project to create east-west segregated cycling lanes between Preston and Elgin streets were unveiled Monday night to the roads and cycling advisory committee. The project — if it survives public consultation and gets council approval — won’t be implemented before next year.
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21.» Designing streets as public spaces in Northern climate cities • Spacing Montreal (spacingmontreal.ca)
Is it possible to plan people-centric streets and friendly urban environments in Northern cities that face rough winters?The answer is a resounding YES ― at least, according to the Danes. Like their Viking ancestors before them, Louise Kielgast and Kristian S. Villadsen, part of the world-renowned design firm Gehl Architects,
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From NIMBYs To DUDEs: The Wacky World Of Plannerese (www.planetizen.com)Ric Stephens has compiled a list of some of the wackiest -- yet at times quite realistic -- urban planning words, in a vocabulary he has dubbed 'Plannerese.'
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23.Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ (www.cityofsound.com)
In short, the city of Newcastle, NSW is the largest coal port in the world. Yet as the harbour has essentially become a giant open mouth belching coal to China, and people and other business have drifted to the suburbs (an over-simplification, but ...), the historic core of the city has hollowed out, leaving numerous vacant buildings
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Council should think twice about rural lot development - Lilly Noble (www.northernlife.ca)if we allow more and smaller lots to be severed in rural areas and new homes are built, perhaps the new lot owners will drill their own wells, have their own septic systems and cost the city nothing.
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Zoning reform, libertarianism, and the nature of community (switchboard.nrdc.org)The city planners of Anchorage, Alaska, are attempting to bring that city’s land-use regulations into the 21st century.
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