Urbanism & Design: Opportunities & Challenges In TOD, Dallas Freeway Teardown, Untapped Brownfields Assets
May 30, 2013
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Why Are Chicago's Sidewalk Cafes on the North Side?
WBEZ
Why the city's sidewalk oases thrive on the North Side, but barely survive on the South and West sides
Environment & Ecology: Geography of Tokyo Pollen, Megacity Environmental Policies Matter, Off Grid Sustainability
April 5, 2013
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The Geography of Tokyo Pollen
New Geography
The weather here is turning warmer, the cherry trees are blossoming and the waiting rooms in clinics that specialize in nose and eye problems are filling up with people suffering from runny noses, sneezing and bloodshot eyes.
Urbanism & Design: Missouri Land Assembly Tax Credit, Detroit Development Plans, San Diego Mixed Use Project, Visualizing Four Square Check-Ins, Cleveland Vs. Spokane Parking
March 28, 2013
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Controversial Land Assembly Tax Credit Hearing in Missouri
St. Louis Post Dispatch
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay was among several people to testify in favor of extending the controversial Distressed Areas Land Assemblage tax credit before a Missouri Senate committee hearing Wednesday.
Blogosphere: The Empty Bus Myth, Idaho Stop In Aspen, Making Suburbs Work Like Cities, Debating Fed. Department Of Cities, Tokyo's Cap N Trade Program
February 8, 2013
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Blogosphere: Countering the "Empty Buses" Myth
Human Transit
The Pinellas County, Florida transit agency has done this video to help counter the impressions people get from seeing empty buses around the area...
Read On Blogosphere: Aspen to Vote on "Idaho Stop" Streetsblog.net
Almost exactly 30 years ago, the state of Idaho enacted a traffic rule that would come to be known nationally as the "Idaho Stop," allowing cyclists to treat stop signs…
The Pinellas County, Florida transit agency has done this video to help counter the impressions people get from seeing empty buses around the area...
Read On Blogosphere: Aspen to Vote on "Idaho Stop" Streetsblog.net
Almost exactly 30 years ago, the state of Idaho enacted a traffic rule that would come to be known nationally as the "Idaho Stop," allowing cyclists to treat stop signs…
Blogosphere: Transpo Awards For Roads, Amtrak Philly Impact, Work On Next Fed Transpo Bill, Gentrification Side Effects
September 10, 2012
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Blogosphere: AASHTO's Best Projects are Roads
DC Streetsblog
Are you ready to be inspired? Well, good, because the American Association of State Highway and Transportation just released its list of finalists for the "America's Transportation Award" Grand Prize...
Read On Blogosphere: How Amtrak Might Redefine Philly Atlantic Cities
The big pricetag received most of the attention when Amtrak released its updated vision for…
Are you ready to be inspired? Well, good, because the American Association of State Highway and Transportation just released its list of finalists for the "America's Transportation Award" Grand Prize...
Read On Blogosphere: How Amtrak Might Redefine Philly Atlantic Cities
The big pricetag received most of the attention when Amtrak released its updated vision for…
Blogosphere: Bike Score, Evaluating TOD Justice, Census Change Impact, Form Based Code Value, Brazil Urban Development
May 15, 2012
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Blogosphere: Walk Score Releases Bike Score
Walk Score Blog
Just in time for Bike to Work Week, we are thrilled to launch Bike Score and our first ranking of the most bikeable U.S. cities. See how your city ranks and vote for your city to be next to get Bike Score...
Read On Blogosphere: TOD That Is Healthy, Green & Just Seattle Transit Blog
Today Puget Sound Sage released a new report on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the Rainier Valley. It outlines changes seen in the…
Just in time for Bike to Work Week, we are thrilled to launch Bike Score and our first ranking of the most bikeable U.S. cities. See how your city ranks and vote for your city to be next to get Bike Score...
Read On Blogosphere: TOD That Is Healthy, Green & Just Seattle Transit Blog
Today Puget Sound Sage released a new report on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the Rainier Valley. It outlines changes seen in the…
Blogosphere: Unsustainable Gas Tax, State Of Infrastructure, Transit Recession, Copenhagenization, Frequency vs Coverage
May 10, 2012
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Blogosphere: WMATA Says Blogs Aren't News Media
Greater Greater Washington
WMATA lawyers incorrectly read the laws in 2009 to declare Greater Greater Washington, and other blogs, not part of the news media. Today, they reiterated this incorrect interpretation in response to a PARP request (their version of FOIA) from Michael Perkins...
Read On Blogosphere: Five Things House/Senate Bill Should Do T4 America
The "conference" on the…
WMATA lawyers incorrectly read the laws in 2009 to declare Greater Greater Washington, and other blogs, not part of the news media. Today, they reiterated this incorrect interpretation in response to a PARP request (their version of FOIA) from Michael Perkins...
Read On Blogosphere: Five Things House/Senate Bill Should Do T4 America
The "conference" on the…
Blogosphere: Urban Housing Shift, Centralized HSR, Transit Hubs, Fringe Suburbs, IKEA Urbanism, Landscape Algorithms, Olympic Transit
December 1, 2011
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Blogosphere: Housing Prices Reveal Urban Shift
All About Cities
A new survey in the United States revealed that only 12% of future home buyers wanted to purchase a home in the suburban-fringe. A decade ago, it is quite possible that the number would have been reversed with over 80% wanting a large suburban home...
Read On Blogosphere: An HSR Country is a Centralized Country Pedestrian Observations
1950s' Japan was a fairly monocentric country, in…
A new survey in the United States revealed that only 12% of future home buyers wanted to purchase a home in the suburban-fringe. A decade ago, it is quite possible that the number would have been reversed with over 80% wanting a large suburban home...
Read On Blogosphere: An HSR Country is a Centralized Country Pedestrian Observations
1950s' Japan was a fairly monocentric country, in…
Blogosphere: Apartment Walk Score, 'Train to Nowhere', Cities & Climate Change, Amtrak Costs
November 8, 2011
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Blogosphere: Why Tokyo's Privately Owned Rail Works
November 2, 2011|The Atlantic Cities
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There are megacities, and then there's Tokyo. With a metro-wide population of 35 million, it's the undisputed king of megacities, comfortably beating even the closest competitors in mainland Asia and the Americas... Read On