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12th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
Submitted by mikejersha on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 11:56amThe 12th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference will be held February 7-9, 2013 in Kansas City, MO. The gathering will bring together professionals and practitioners from various backgrounds in development, planning, engineering, and architecture to see what has been done the past year and what goals are to be accomplished throughout the next year.
Eye on the Street: May 18th, 2012
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 8:37am
Ibiza, courtesy of Andres Duany.
Watch Richard Florida's CNU 20 Friday Night Plenary
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:29pmagainst "sustainability" (the word, not the policy)
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 1:45pm(cross-posted with my personal blog)
Literally (i.e. in normal, non-jargon English) “sustainable” means that it is capable of being sustained over time, whether it is good or bad.
But in environmentalist jargon, “sustainable” means “environmentally friendly” or “non-polluting.” It seems to me that this jargon creates a completely unnecessary barrier between professional environmentalists/planners and the rest of humanity.
How not to make public transit tourist-friendly
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 10:28amAfter CNU, I rode Tri-Rail and Miami-Dade transit to visit a friend in Miami Beach. The Tri-Rail trip was fine; Miami-Dade transit, however, was more of an adventure.
Watch First + Main's Two-Part Series "CNU 20: Confessions" and "CNU 20: Dreams"
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 5:09pm
CNU20 Dreams from First+Main Media on Vimeo.
See the Trailer for First and Main's "CNU 20: Confessions/Dreams"
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 3:44pm»
What's your balloon story?
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:24pmWhat's your balloon story?
WATCH LIVE: Friday Night Plenary with Richard Florida
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 3:40pmRichard Florida, author of the best-selling Rise of the Creative Class and The Great Reset, speaks at CNU 20 on May 11.
Florida is the founder of the Creative Class Group, currently heads the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and is a senior editor at Atlantic Magazine, having recently created the Atlantic Cities program.
Thank you for watching the live-stream. We will have the video archive available soon:
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Calthorpe on Chinese urbanism
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 12:16pmPeter Calthorpe spoke this morning on Chinese urbanism- the good and the bad. From a new urbanist perspective, the good includes density and transportation: Chinese cities tend to be more compact than ours, and the government seeks to limit car use to a 20% modal share (i.e. 20 percent of all trips by car- still an increase over the current 12 percent share).
The bad: lots of streets that are too wide to comfortably cross, and lots of blocks that tend to be on the long side.