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Public Transit: A green line
Submitted by Jon Davis on Mon, 01/07/2008 - 5:37pmQuite a contrast between the Garden State and the Prairie State:
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Public Transit: A green line
Submitted by Jon Davis on Mon, 01/07/2008 - 5:35pmQuite a contrast between the Garden State and the Prairie State:
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Changing Skyline | City planning still bush-league By Inga Saffron Philadelphia Inquirer Architecture Critic
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 7:16pmThere are two kinds of people counting the days until Mayor-elect Michael Nutter fires David Auspitz, the blustering, bullying chairman of Philadelphia's Zoning Board of Adjustment.
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As deadlines loom, the fight for Buffalo's waterfront escalates
Submitted by tbellino on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 2:42pmWhile the New York State Transportation Department prepares to award construction contracts for an improvement of Buffalo's Route 5 elevated expressway,
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Is California Ready for New Urbanism?
Submitted by crandell on Fri, 10/19/2007 - 5:48pmLeaders from CNU's Southern and Northern California chapter groups participated in a debate at the APA California chapter's annual conference earlier this month about whether California is ready to turn around it's development patterns. The consensus? The state still has a long way to go.
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Rethinking Green: Blockbuster Report in Environmental Building News Measures Impact of "Driving to Green Buildings"
Submitted by mackean on Fri, 10/12/2007 - 3:04pmThe Nobel Committee’s decision to award this year’s Peace Prize for environmental activism reminds us that the environment has become a pressing political topic in recent years. The critical question is what kind of practical changes such publicity about global warming will affect.
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McKibben on Global Warming, and (New) Urbanism
Submitted by mackean on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 12:48amBill 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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The Camden NJ Regional Equity Demonstration Project - Rutgers University
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 09/16/2007 - 12:12amAfter 50 years of continuous and accelerating job loss, population flight, propertymarket
decline, plummeting municipal revenues, and civic collapse, Camden has embarked on a
land-redevelopment process of unprecedented proportions, initiated by a state takeover of the city’s municipal functions, A... read more »
Obesity-Walkability-New Urbanism Link
Submitted by crandell on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 11:51amIt seems more and more studies these days are making the connection between the built environment and health, and pointing to the challenge we face in improving our communities.
Two recent news stories are a case in point. One covers a study that found a link between gas prices and obesity. Higher... read more »
SNU Congress I
Submitted by erfurt4 on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 7:17amTo anyone interested in the first Students for New Urbanism Conference:
This post is to notify you about the first Students for New Urbanism Congress
to be held this October at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
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