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Tax revenue from downtown mixed-use outperforms big-box superstores and malls
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 7:40amAnalysis of property tax revenues from Sarasota, Florida reveals that mixed-use, compact development outperforms Walmarts and conventional shopping malls by a considerable margin when compared on a revenue-per-acre basis. So writes one of our better observers of the built environment, Mary New... read more »
The Sustainable Communities Initiative
Submitted by Mary Vogel on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:57pmThe Sustainable Communities Initiative
View article with images, formatting, links and comments at http://blog.sustainableindustries.com/category/built-environment/
MaryVogel | July 21, 2010
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"Mayors Institute" Model Comes to Israel (With a Little Help from CNU)
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Mon, 06/14/2010 - 6:52amAiming to import the success of the Mayors Institute on City Design — the National Endowment for the Arts program that has helped prepare more than 800 US Mayors over 24 years to be the "chief urban designers of their cities" — the Movement for Israeli Urbanism hosted the inaugural class of the... read more »
Putting a lid on the Downtown Connector at the Urban Labs luncheon
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 5:41amTalk about power lunching. At yesterday's Urban Labs lunch, at St. Luke's Church, a few minutes' walk from the Hilton, those of us at Table 1-A finished off our box lunches and then within about an hour sketched out a possible solution to a vexing problem of downtown Atlanta - the Downtown Connector... read more »
Food, Energy, Transportation, Urban Design, Climate for an Eternity without Oil!
Submitted by kimgyr on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 8:48pm2. The specific challenges that we must all address are A) the production of food without petroleum – there were approximately 100 million Americans in 1915 and 21.5 million horses (≅5:1) to help
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Housing market strengthens for smart growth: dramatic new data from the DC area
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 7:12amThe housing market is trending ever more dramatically toward smart growth. A look at recent home sales data in the Washington, DC metro area shows how.
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Removing Federal Obstacles to Urbanism
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 12:15pmUrbanists and smart growth advocates often talk about long-standing Federal policies and practices that undermine cities and small towns and stand in the way of realizing the benefits of good urbanism
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HUD Official Offers Economics-Savvy Vision for New Sustainability Office
Submitted by rgallentine on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 3:42pmNewly 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 - 2:20pmToday, 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 - 5:34pmI 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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