Quote of the Day
Financial Times
"You find a lot of new suburbs are now building in a town centre with a fake history,"
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(September 8, 2010)
Orlando: Planning the Other Step in Transport
Orlando Sentinel
Ken Nuckols is a tech writer and bicyclist who thinks the SunRail commuter train could create a new business opportunity for him. He is seeking investors to set up a bike-commuter station near a SunRail stop in downtown Orlando. He envisions a place where cyclists who ride the train could secure their bikes, shower and maybe get some simple repairs...
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(September 8, 2010)
Blogosphere: Framing New Broadway
Streetsblog
Recession or depression? Estate taxes or death taxes? How events or policies are named, or "framed," has become crucial to their viability. Indeed, the ascendancy of the right wing in the U.S. in recent decades is attributed in part to the Right's mastery of political phraseology to demonize leftist and even centrist policies...
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(September 8, 2010)
Blogosphere: What is a Sustainable Community?
NRDC Switchboard
Today I begin a new job, as leader of NRDC's new sustainable communities initiative. It's really more an evolution of my old job, since for a decade and a half I have already been all about advocating a positive vision for environmentally responsible placemaking...
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(September 8, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Boston Globe
"Some planners envision a landscape that isn't recognizably urban, suburban, or rural, but some combination of the three, with multistory apartment buildings next to working farms, and public transit lines extending through neighborhoods where most households have ample space to park their cars."
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(September 7, 2010)
Virginia Beach: City Looks to Change Growth Pattern
Virginian Pilot
For years, Virginia Beach has been a textbook example of suburban sprawl. Housing booms in the 1970s, '80s and '90s led to miles of strip malls, car dealerships and big-box stores with acres of parking lots. Now, the city is pretty much full...
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(September 7, 2010)
Indianapolis: Don't Miss Chance to Jump Aboard Transit
Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis had a better public transportation system a century ago than it does today.Hard to believe? Well, consider that in 1910, according to the city's archives, about 200 passenger trains pulled into Union Station each day....
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(September 7, 2010)
Toronto: Optical Illusion for Safety
The Globe & Mail (via Transportationist)
It's already on the big screen, but now a 3D image is being used on the streets of West Vancouver in an attempt to jolt reckless drivers into reality.
Motorists travelling on 22nd Street in West Vancouver will be confronted with a 3D image of a little girl chasing a ball in the street starting next Tuesday...
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Motorists travelling on 22nd Street in West Vancouver will be confronted with a 3D image of a little girl chasing a ball in the street starting next Tuesday...
(September 7, 2010)
National: How to Shrink a City
Boston Globe
Since cities first got big enough to require urban planning, its practitioners have focused on growth. From imperial Rome to 19th-century Paris and Chicago and up through modern-day Beijing, the duty of city planners and administrators has been to impose order as people flowed in, buildings rose up, and the city limits extended outward into the hinterlands...
(September 7, 2010)
Blogosphere: You Can't Have Good TOD Without T
Planetizen
Philip Langdon argues that if the U.S. is going to shift toward compact, less resource-consuming patterns of development, Americans will have to rely increasingly on mass transit - so it better work...
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(September 7, 2010)
