Blogosphere: Economics of Congestion, HSR in Texas, Russian Machu Picchu
Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Rethink Economics of Traffic Congestion The Atlantic Cities With a few notable exceptions, transportation planning practice in the United States is focused on managing or eliminating traffic congestion. Regardless of whether planners are advocating for highway infrastructure to improve level-of-service, or transit projects... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Filling Downtown with People, Not Cars SF Streetsblog The new Transbay Transit Center is expected to transform San Francisco's downtown core by focusing new development around a massive regional transit hub in eastern SoMa... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Streetcar Headed to Downtown StL? Citizens for Modern Transit Is a modern streetcar system headed to Downtown St. Louis? The Partnership for Downtown St. Louis (Partnership) released a Request for Qualifications today for a streetcar feasibility study for connecting the areas of Downtown, Midtown, Central West End, and Skinker-DeBaliviere in the City of St. Louis... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is Demand Based Planning a Myth? Caltrain HSR Compatability Blog With over 80% of riders using Caltrain to commute to their jobs during rush hour, one would think that the service would be planned around where people live and where people work, using cold hard numbers from the census... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Detroit Turns Freeway into a River Grist On Thursday, Detroit tried a little Venetian experiment, turning one of its freeways into a river. This would have been great if it had been intentional, like an artistic statement about transportation and modern society or something... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How To Do Texas HSR Keep Houston Houston I'm getting a lot of hits on a post I did awhile back arguing that High Speed Rail is pro-sprawl. So if a bunch of people are going to link here off of a HAIF discussion on HSR I might as well jot down all my views in one place... Read On |
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Blogosphere: South Korea's Focus on Green Growth Urban Times Practical and resourceful environmental protection has been a focus in South Korea since 2008, when the government proclaimed green growth as a national development model... Read On |
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Blogosphere: 3rd Annual TOD Summit in LA LA Streetsblog Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has been a hot topic in Los Angeles, with planners noting that most of the city's development will be around transit nodes in the coming decades... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Origami Meets Street Art in Paris Pop Up City Check out these lovely rainbow origami street art creations by Mademoiselle Maurice. After spending one year in Japan, she was inspired to bring these colorful geometric figures to the streets of Paris... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Permanent Pro-Sprawl Campaign Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space Last week, someone sent a link from the Biloxi (MS) Sun-Herald to an e-list I'm on, a screed letter to the editor about how the Congress for the New Urbanism, which did a lot of charrette work in Biloxi after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, is basically a plot to destroy individualism and the good life as we know it... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bloomberg vs. Fatsos Next American City Just yesterday, New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he plans to ban large sodas from being sold in delis, street carts, movie theaters and other places to help prevent obesity... Read On |
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Blogosphere: An Early Defense of Zoning Market Urbanism At Discovering Urbanism, Daniel Nairn offers an interesting summary of Edward Murray Bassett's 1922 defense of zoning (available as a free e-book). Bassett faced opponents who were against a new type of land use regulation, many arguing that zoning was unconstitutional... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Atlas of Suburbanisms Mammoth The University of Waterloo's Atlas of Suburbanisms - a research project by the School of Planning's Markus Moos and Anna Kramer - looks like a fantastic effort to understand Canadian suburbs on their own terms and as components of larger urban systems.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Atlas of Suburbanisms Mammoth The University of Waterloo's Atlas of Suburbanisms - a research project by the School of Planning's Markus Moos and Anna Kramer - looks like a fantastic effort to understand Canadian suburbs on their own terms and as components of larger urban systems.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Casinos Are Not the Future Salon Atlantic City and Asbury Park are like two brothers with nothing in common. Both are cut from the same cloth, old Jersey weekender spots with famous seaside boardwalks... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Design for the Public Realm The Polis Blog "Public Places - Urban Spaces" - a recently updated textbook on urban design and planning - includes a review of six place-making frameworks by the likes of Kevin Lynch, Nan Ellin and the Congress for a New Urbanism... Read On |
Blogosphere: The Russian Machu Picchu
English Russia
Yes, it can probably be called "Machu Picchu" on the former Soviet territory. The main difference - real Machu Picchu has tourists but no locals, this place has no tourists, only locals...
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