Urbanism

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 »

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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). ... read more »

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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 ... read more »

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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. ... read more »

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Sustainability and New Urbanism in the Third World

Submitted by Karja Hansen on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 9:52pm.
A recent article on WorldChanging.com brought up the subject of sustainable planning and building in third world regions. The article specifically discusses the October 15 8.0 earthquake in the Ica region of Central Andean Peru. The city of Pisco near the epicenter has reportedly lost 80 percent of... read more »

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