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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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2.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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Urban Sprawl Repair Kit Offers Simple Plans to Fix Suburbia | Inhabitat (www.inhabitat.com)The suburban landscape consists largely of endless expanses of paved parking lots pocked with strip malls, gas stations, chain restaurants, and McMansions
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Jeb Brugmann (jebbrugmann.com)Taking readers on a street-level tour of the world’s cities, Urban Revolution provides an anatomy of our urbanizing planet.
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Charlottesville Community Design Center - Welcome (cvilledesign.org)CCDC is one of the newest of over 40 community design centers across the country. Community design is a movement which began in the 1960s, which focuses on the creation and management of environments for people.
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University of Idaho Community Design and Planning Research (www.class.uidaho.edu)This site provides citizens, elected officials and students access to case study research on issues important to community revitalization and urban design for small towns and cities
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PublicRealmHandbook (www.grosvenorpublicrealm.co.uk)Our Public Realm Strategy, "Places for People: Public Realm Strategy for Mayfair and Belgravia", prepared by Gehl Architects, sets out our strategic vision, principles and advice for improving the public realm.
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8 Ways to Create City Utopias for Peds and Cyclists (Or At Least Stop Killing Them...Us) : TreeHugger (www.treehugger.com)Without even knowing it, you are daily performing, probably at least a little bit, the death-defying act of pedestrianism.
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Introducing The Master Plan: A Chronicle of New Urbanism and Exurban Decay (www.fastcompany.com)The suburban landscape that awed him circa 1963 was the fruit of a warm climate, middle-class manufacturing jobs, Federal Housing Administration mortgages, brand-new interstate highways, and tax code changes that made shopping malls a slam-dunk for developers
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Abstract : The environmental and economic costs of sprawling parking lots in the United States (www.sciencedirect.com)Measuring parking lots and calculating parking spaces
Spatial footprint metrics Parking lot footprint
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Get active, Espanola! Group wants healthy living prioritized in urban planning (www.midnorthmonitor.com)The working group is a sub-committee of the Rainbow Heart Health Coalition, which is affiliated with the Sudbury and District Health Unit (SDHU). Its purpose is to convince Espanola council to endorse the Espanola Active Community Charter and integrate it into the town's strategic planning process.Coincidentally, the town ratified its new five-year Official Plan on December 8.
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The Mayors' Institute on City Design (www.micd.org)The Mayors' Institute on City Design was initially proposed in 1985 by Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. of Charleston, South Carolina, in a letter to Jaquelin T. Robertson, Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, following a symposium there on design and politics.
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Portland and the Limits of Urban Planning Policy (www.urbanophile.com)I’d like to illustrate this performance from a Midwest perspective by comparing Portland to Indianapolis. You can think of Portland as being in “first place” from a policy perspective by popular acclaim.
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while the Forum is primarily concerned with urban design, the not-so-hidden agenda of this design competition is to propose a new economic development model.
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Downtown Clevelands Redesigning Public Squares (downtowncleveland.com)In 2008 ParkWorks and Downtown Cleveland Alliance began the first ever comprehensive redesign process for Public Square.
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Baltimore Zoning By laws: No new parking lots under proposed plan (www.baltimoresun.com)Baltimore's downtown would include designated districts that are defined by unique building structures, and regulations would prohibit blocking views of the city's iconic structures under a proposed vision for future development.
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Must View: Blog | Sustainable Cities (sustainablecities.dk)We aim to inspire and engage in conversations about sustainable cities with people, communities and organizations from all over the world. We collect and disseminate knowledge in order to help people and cities become more sustainable in future.
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Next American City » Magazine » A New Spin on Urban Mobility (americancity.org)Robin Chase and William Mitchell both live in Boston, a city at once packed with cars and efficiently served by public transit. It’s a good laboratory for the two transportation innovators, who have spent their impressive careers thinking of better ways to move people around urban spaces
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Layton on Poverty in Canada (www.themarknews.com)What the federal government can do to fight poverty in the country's urban centres.
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-Waterloo winter cyclists who will wear GPS units to help design bike routes (news.therecord.com)John Hill, a regional planner who works on ways to reduce car use, says the region will provide volunteer cyclists with a special device — a customized global positioning system — that will record information about routes and times.
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Orillia Plan set to be official (www.orilliapacket.com)Orillia's future landscape could be shaped for years to come with a vote by city politicians tonight.After two years at the drawing board, the city is poised to adopt a brand new official plan.And a controversial vision for a lakeside convention centre could be one step closer to reality if council agrees to a last-minute change.
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The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) today released a new report showing the federal government can jump-start its national climate change strategy by partnering with municipalities on cost-effective, community-based projects.
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Provincial government report recommends abandonment of much of rural Ontario (www.ruralcouncil.ca)Most of rural Canada cannot sustain itself. Rural residents need help to cover basic needs, from airfare to city hospitals for their medical needs to subsidized energy for their homes. Rural towns need provincial subsidies to cover up to 90% of their infrastructure needs.
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