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Amazing new maps from an L+U favorite, Strange Maps, featuring 'A Taxonomy of City Maps: "Imagined cities built from the fragments of real ones: something similar is happening in Tout bien rangé, a cartography-based artwork by French artist Armelle Caron. It consists of a series of map pairs, one a blind, but recognisably real city map, the other what looks like an assembly kit for that same city, with the its blocks impracticably but neatly arranged by shape and size."..

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Even though urban areas account for some 70 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions, cities aren't the problem causing climate change, but the solution, argued Jaime Lerner, the highly influential former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil and now architect and urban designer, at a conference organized by The Economist...

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Mayors have three jobs, but most enjoy only one or two of them. The ones they like are creating public policy or building political support for those policies. Almost universally, the one they don't is managing the city government...

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At The Economist magazine's "Intelligent Infrastructure" conference, Geoffrey West, a physicist at the Santa Fe Institute and subject of an interesting profile in The New York Times Magazine, argued that companies and cities function like biological organisms and have finite lifespans...

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You might not see much similarity between Yolo County, Calif., with its open farmland and small cities, and the densely packed streets of New York City. But both are on the Natural Resource Defense Council's list of "America's Smartest Regions for Transportation."...

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Judith Rodin, the innovative leader of the Rockefeller Foundation, said the design community needs to focus on improving the resiliency of our infrastructure at a conference hosted by The Economist...

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I have another post up at New Geography called "Census 2010: Urbanizing Indiana." Similar to my Chicago piece, this looks at the latest Census results for Indianapolis and Indiana. For Indy, the story has some similarities to Chicago...

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Charles Royer has a thoughtful essay on the future of Pioneer Square, which is worth reading. It contains this aside about obstacles to development: But there's a catch called Incentive Zoning..

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