• The enduring legacy of John Nolen

    The early 20th Century urban planning giant was right about St. Petersburg—and he inspired the New Urbanism.
    Providing St. Petersburg, Florida, with good city planning was John Nolen’s intent when he drafted Florida’s first comprehensive city plan, a vision of an American Riviera with interconnected systems of parks and preserves giving public access to beaches and bays. To prevent “an unhappy situation...Read more

  • Map shows how cities and towns can fight climate change

    The impact of the neighborhood on many sources of climate emissions is clearly visible in this University of California research.
    A first-of-its-kind interactive geographic map of carbon emissions was created by the University of California at Berkeley for the San Francisco Bay region, showing in detail how the metro area contributes to climate change. Other interactive maps have been created nationwide showing CO2 emissions...Read more