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HUD Official Offers Economics-Savvy Vision for New Sustainability Office
Submitted by rgallentine on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 8:42pm.Newly appointed Director of HUD's Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities ... read more »
Call to "Build Back Better" in Haiti echoes post-Katrina message in Gulf States
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 7:20pm.Today, crews made up of both international relief workers and self-organized Haitians are struggling mightily to rest
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Water Usage by Land Use
Submitted by mhathorne on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 10:34pm.I am trying to dig up some information about averages of water usage based on different land uses. Does anyone have any information along these lines that they could share?
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Studies Show New Urbanism Good For Health
Submitted by abanks on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 2:34pm.With CNU’s 2010 Atlanta Congress: New Urbanism: Rx for Healthy Places on the horizon, New Urbanism’s connection to the health industry has never been stronge
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Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland - read before Transportation Summit Nov 4-6 in Portland
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 4:19pm.For those coming to the CNU Transportation Summit Nov 4-6 in Portland, OR http://www.cnu.org/transportation2009, I'd like to recommend that you read the discussion on Planetizen titled Beloved and Aba
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Other Cities, Take Note: Bold, Smart, Green Vision Proposed for Downtown Raleigh
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:22pm.Dan Douglas was, until recently, chief downtown planner and director of the Urban Design Council in Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina.
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LEED-ND Dilemma
Submitted by burlesona on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:31pm.Hi everyone,
I'm working on a project in the Houston region, and we're interested in going for LEED-ND certification. I've run into a problem, however, and I was wondering if anyone had constructive thoughts on what we might be able to do about it. We're land planners primarily, and haven't done any... read more »
New jersey: 2 tri-county towns join Live Where You Work program
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 11:37am.Under the program, people can receive low-interest, 30- or 40-year fixed-rate loans in exchange for buying their first home in the town where they work.
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Urbanism is value: Higher Walk Score means higher neighborhood home values
Submitted by logannash on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 4:41pm.Thanks to a new report put out by CEO's For Cities, there's further statistical evidence for what New Urbanists have been saying for quite a while: people
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High-Speed urbanism: The push against an airport HSR station in Madison
Submitted by logannash on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 9:48pm.Thankfully, it seems clear that livability and sustainable transportation planning are part of Obama and DOT head Ray LaHood’s plan for Ameri
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