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The Interface Effect: Good Urbanism Spreads
Submitted by burlesona on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 2:32pm.For those who remember my previous post on Property Value Theory, today I wanted to share a photographic comparison I made between two urban infill projects of similar age here in Houston.
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Frank Gruber rationally discusses the many urbanisms
Submitted by logannash on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 4:54pm.Journalist Frank Gruber has a great series of articles up on the Huffington Post entitled "In Search of a Fou
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Property Value Theory - Some useful terminology and observations on urban property values
Submitted by burlesona on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 9:57pm.I've been developing a theory and some terminology that I find very helpful in explaining urbanism to developers, city officials, and others who "don't get it." Here's the gist of it, at the end you can find a link to my blog if you'd like to read a bit more.
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Sustainable Urbanism Module by Farr Associates
Submitted by Sandy Sorlien on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 3:45pm.The Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS) announces the availability as freeware of the new Sustainable Urbanism Performance-based SmartCode Module, written by Farr Associates
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What if Jane Jacobs had directed "Slumdog"?
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 3:39pm.Is the slum in the title of the wildly popular Oscar contender Slumdog Millionaire a fetid, altogether inhospitable place that any reasonable person would try desperately to escape?
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Ten Most Enlightened Suburbs - Models for the Future
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 9:56pm.At UTNE Reader Peter Katz and Jay Walljasper outline ten North American communities that are defying the notion of "suburb."
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Calling BP Amoco home, urbanism is
Submitted by Jon Davis on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 8:36pm.Chicago's newspapers hit the streets today (May 6) with -- among the usual hyperbole and pabulum -- a story to warm the cockles of any new urbanist's heart.... read more »
Take a look at China
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 2:06pm.It is an article of faith among some defenders of the sprawl status quo that China is inevitably trending towards sprawl (thus allegedly proving that the human desire for sprawl is universal).
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Canons for Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism on line at cnu.org/canons
Submitted by HDittmar on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 11:01pm.Elizabeth Moule, Stefanos Polyzoides and I
presented a document at the Green Council that was intended to serve
as a lesser companion to the Charter in the area of green urbanism and
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McKibben on Global Warming, and (New) Urbanism
Submitted by mackean on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 5:48am.Bill McKibben's recent reviews from the New York Review of Books suggest New Urbanism's potential role in the fight against global warming.
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