Blogosphere: Anthropological Sign Posts of Pittsburgh
July 12, 2011|Rust Wire
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Here's what she had to say about the project: When Pittsburgh's neighborhoods once throbbed with the heartbeat of industry, members of the working class did their best to carve out small plots of life of their own... Read On
Blogosphere: A Tale of Two Densities
July 12, 2011|Old Urbanist
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In Hoboken, New Jersey, the fourth densest incorporated place in the United States, there is a two-block stretch between 6th and 7th Streets where the "hypertrophic" fabric of the great majority of the city, consisting of walk-up apartments and large brownstones on wide streets, abruptly gives way to a series of smaller rowhouses on narrow streets cut through a single larger block... Read On
Baltimore: Towson Looks to More Walkable Design
July 12, 2011|Baltimore Sun
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Baltimore County has a plan for the heart of Towson, and it looks like Allegheny Avenue. In good weather Souris' Saloon can count on serving customers at tables under a black awning on the wide sidewalk where Allegheny meets the traffic circle at York Road. Down the block, Strapazza opens its sidewalk umbrellas for patrons... Read On
Quote of the Day
July 11, 2011|Minneapolis Star Tribune
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"Cities have just kind of been hunkered down and it's only now, very recently, that some of the cities are finally saying, 'You know, we haven't seen our development fees,' or '[Our] tax base isn't growing. Maybe we really need to start thinking about our standards" Read On
Norman Garrick: Street Networks are the Building Blocks of Cities
July 11, 2011
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Norm Garrick, CNU Board Member and one of the leads on the transportation networks program discusses what they have been working on and how street networks are the building blocks of cities.
Quote of the Day
July 8, 2011|USA Today
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"We found that placing fire stations in a well-connected street network is a more cost-effective use of our resources" Read On
The Impact of Carsharing on Household Vehicle Ownership
July 8, 2011
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Carsharing in North America is changing the transportation landscape of metropolitan regions across the continent. Carsharing systems give members access to an automobile for short-term use. The shared cars are distributed across a network of locations within a metropolitan area. Members can access the vehicles at any time with a reservation and are charged by time or by mile. Carsharing thus provides some of the benefits of personal automobility without the costs of owning a private vehicle.
National: Fire Departments and New Urbanism at Odds
July 8, 2011|USA Today
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Urban villages, quaint and pedestrian-friendly developments embraced by environmentalists, are sparking opposition from fire officials who say the streets are too narrow for their fire engines... Read On
Blogosphere: Parklets Create Public Space
July 7, 2011|California Planning and Development Report
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Among the many counterintuitive theories that Jane Jacobs dispensed was that of the evils of parks: if designed and situated poorly, they could turn into vast dead spaces where unsavory characters could congregate and mischief could ensure. She preferred, instead, smaller, more intimate spaces with close connections to their communities... Read On
Blogosphere: Urban Signal Space
July 7, 2011|Urban Omnibus
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Mobile communication networks, seemingly the most invisible of infrastructures, have an enormous potential impact on the physical environment of the city. As wireless usage skyrockets, the capacity of the network is pushed to its limits, and the technologies that control and transmit the signals must adapt to meet the demand. ... Read On
