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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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Video:The World's Greatest Threat: Cul-De-Sacs? | Planetizen (www.planetizen.com)Written and produced by the team of First + Main Media and Paget Films, Built to Last posits that the world's greatest threat is not war, global pestilence, or even the swine flu. No, it is the cul-de-sac.
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Un centre-ville à l’image des Sudburois (testsite.levoyageur.ca)’est à l’unanimité que les conseillers municipaux ont approuvé l’attribution du contrat pour Une vision, un plan et une stratégie d’action pour un plus grand centre-ville à Urban Strategies Inc. mercredi dernier lors de la réunion du Conseil municipal.
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44.Architect weighs in on creating skinny cities (www.nationalpost.com)
Sidewalks are scarce, public transit is spotty or unappealing and stores, schools and recreational facilities are located far from most users. All of these factors have led to an increased dependence on the car and a decreased reliance on calorie-burning transportation like walking or cycling.
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Canadian Urban Institute. Urban Century Newsletter (www.canurb.com)dedicated to providing solutions to important issues that have an impact on the quality of life in urban areas and communicating those solutions to a wide audience through a variety of media.
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Fortunately, though, one of the houses along Cedar Dr. is abandoned (where all the trees can be seen). A hole has been cut in the fence behind the towers…
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Harcourt, who chairs QUEST -- an action group designed to improve Canada's urban energy systems -- and is the associate director of the UBC Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability, says that projections show a global population expansion of four billion people or more in a little over 40 years.
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Local cyclist a champion for new bike paths (www.thesudburystar.com)Her main focus now is to ensure the Bell Park Path is constructed properly as part of reconstruction of the Grace Hartman Amphitheatre. It would be a rare victory on the infrastructure side for a committee that has seen pathways disappear.
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Community Involvement Committee assists Portland Plan team (www.portlandonline.com)The Portland Plan process started two years ago, building on the important work done through visionPDX, which gathered and compiled an impressive amount of information. Much of that feedback can be reviewed in the Community Input Summary, which captures 17,000 comments from a wide variety of Portlanders. The bureau also developed the Portland Plan Outreach Chronicles to summarize what we heard during the public meetings and summits in May and June 2008
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Avenza Mapping and GIS Solutions (www.avenza.com)MAPublisher® transforms Adobe® Illustrator® into a powerful cartographic authoring tool. MAPublisher bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems and graphic design making cartography faster, easier and more efficient than it has ever been.
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