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Urban Issues: Vision For Richmond's Future, Vancouver Embracing Accessory Units, Traffic Cones, New Google Maps

May 16, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN A Grand Vision for Richmond's Future  Bacon's Rebellion   By 2035 the Richmond region will grow by roughly 200,000 households (435,000 people) and 200,000 new jobs. That's a mind-numbing number for a metropolitan region with barely more than 1 million inhabitants today.
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Urbanism & Design: Prescriptive vs. Market Urbanism, Using Dev Fees For Transpo, Sim City Greenwashes Parking

May 10, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Prescriptive vs. Market Urbanism  City Block   From Ilan Greenberg in The New Republic - San Francisco's Gentrification Problem isn't Gentrification. Greenberg compares the public debate (often writen, and discussed previously here) in San Francisco compared to more the more familiar narrative in other cities.
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Urban Issues: Vancouver Affordability, Geography Of US Suicides, Atlanta In-Town Job Migration, NYC Apartments Sue Bikeshare

May 9, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Pushing Back on Wendell Cox's Vancouver Claims  Price Tags   If (you've) heard once, (you've) heard a hundred times that it takes about 10 years of average household income to buy an average home, and that this renders us the second least affordable city in the entire world, or at least the English-speaking world.
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Urban Issues: Social Media & Planners, Seattle Foreclosure Pain, Online Taxes & Local Stores, Chicago Housing Growth

May 8, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Social Media Can Help Planners, Two Cases  Planetizen, Brent Todarian   With the right approach, social media can expedite the exchange of information between stakeholders, facilitate participatory planning, and build better places.
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Urbanism & Design: Toronto's Waterfront Value, Shared Streets in LA, Smarter Smart Growth

May 2, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Toronto Waterfront Generated Twice the Revenue Spent 680 News Toronto   Waterfront Toronto is doing some bragging about taxpayers’ money being well spent. It has released a study that finds revitalizing the waterfront has generated more than twice the value of public investment to date.
Read On   LA Union Station Draft Plans Released The Source  …
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Environment & Ecology: Courtroom Curbing Cars, Parkour and Historic Preservation

May 2, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Court Rules Cities Fail on Air Pollution, Need to Ban Cars Guardian UK, via: @urbandata   The UK faces European fines and British cities may have to ban cars to dramatically reduce harmful effects of air pollution
Read On   Uniting Historic Preservationists and Parkour Athletes The…
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Urbanism & Design: Regionalism In Atlanta, Toronto Density Bonus Debate, Abu Dhabi Rock Stadium, Case For Low-Rise Density

April 26, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Is Regionalism the Way Forward for Atlanta?  Atlanta Journal Constitution   Last summer's transportation sales tax defeat and a series of divisive political feuds has set back the idea of effective regional solutions for metro Atlanta.
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Transport: Salt Lake LRT Early & Under Budget, Cinci Streetcar Obstructionism, Winnipeg BRT Snag, Costly SF Cable Cars

April 25, 2013
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TRANSPORT Salt Lake LRT Network 2 Years Early, $40M Under Budget  Salt Lake Tribune   Riding high from this month's celebratory airport TRAX line launch - completed two years early and $40 million under budget - the Utah Transit Authority crossed a host of other items off its to-do list Wednesday
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Urbanism & Design: Reviving East Midtown Manhattan, Santa Rosa TOD Vote, Tampa Ped Friendly Makeover, Zombie Subdivisions

April 22, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN A Better Way to Revive East Midtown Manhattan  New York Times   WE are told that New York needs to be lofted back into global competitiveness. That the city isn't modern enough.
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Urbanism & Design: India's IT Hub Trouble, Greek Crisis Urbanism, Portland Bans Downtown Parklets, Walking In Toronto

April 18, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Bengaluru Rues Rapid Growth as India's IT Hub  Guardian UK   Technology boom has brought higher incomes but slums proliferate and services are squeezed in crowded 'garden city'
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