Blogosphere: Historical Cycling Focus, Bay Bridge & Trains, Bikes & Streetcars, Housing Supply & Demand, Permaculture, SF Bike Parklet
November 20, 2012
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| 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: Historical Focus on Cycling in Unlikely Spot GMF Urban Current Christine Grimando, a town planner from York, Maine and an Urban and Regional Policy Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, recently completed travel to the UK and Italy. Ms. Grimando's research focuses on how planners might identify best practices for sustainable urban places across a range of scales... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bay Bridge Used to Be for Trains Too Curbed SF When the Bay Bridge opened in 1936, traffic patterns looked a little different. Early on, the bridge carried three lanes of car traffic in each direction on the upper deck, while the lower deck was for truck traffic and the inter-urban railway, including the Key System that ran through the East Bay... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Strategies for Mixing Bikes/Streetcars Greater Greater Washington Earlier this month, Dan introduced us to one of the street design tools that planners use to ensure safe mixing of bikes and streetcars, the bike sneak. That's one of a whole toolbox full of strategies... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Ballard Transit Planning Partnership Seattle Transit Blog As part of partnership more than a year in the making, on Thursday the Sound Transit board approved $2 million in funding to study rail transit connecting downtown to Ballard. This is joined by up to $800,000 from the City of Seattle... Read On |
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Blogosphere: In Wendell's World, Supply = Demand California Planning and Development Report Wendell Cox, my favorite anti-anti-sprawl researcher, is at it again. This time, he's on New Geography, taking on the oft-quoted forecast of Southern California's future housing market by Professor Arthur C. Nelson of the University of Utah, which found that future demand will be mostly for multifamily housing and small lot (under 5,000 square feet) detached homes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Permaculture = Permanent Agriculture ASLA Dirt That's at least one definition of this innovative practice, explained Jillian Hovey, the Toronto-based head of Sustainable Living Network at the 2012 Greenbuild in San Francisco... Read On |
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Blogosphere: San Francisco's New Bike Parklet Atlantic Cities Travel to the corner of Filbert and Fillmore streets in San Francisco, and you'll likely see a bunch of bicyclists kicking back inside a dismembered automobile, like hunters celebrating a massive kill... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Preparations For Launching HOT Lanes The Source Following on the heels of the successful opening of 11-miles of Metro ExpressLanes along the Harbor Freeway and with more than 50,000 Fastrak® ExpressLanes transponders issued, motorists this week will begin seeing messages on the giant display message boards along the.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Voice for Keeping DC's Height Limits The Atlantic Cities I've been procrastinating this one for a long time. I generally avoid taking stands on controversial local issues in Washington, where I have lived for over four decades, and I am especially uncomfortable being at odds with people I respect and consider friends... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Baltimore Already off Fiscal Cliff Baltimore Innerspace Much has been said about the federal "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and budget cuts that are scheduled to take effect on December 31st, due to the ongoing national tax policy gridlock between liberals and conservatives... Read On |
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Blogosphere: In China, a 30 Story Building in 15 Days Urban Times What if I told you that a thirty-story, earthquake resistant, green building could be built in fifteen days? Believe it or not, this is exactly what happened in Dongting Lake, located in the Hunan Province of China... Read On |
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Blogosphere: International Fight Over Paris Skyline Atlantic Cities Orthodox cathedrals with their trademark golden onion domes are a familiar sight across Russia. And one may soon become part of Paris's famed skyline, right near the Eiffel Tower... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rise of the New Baltimoreans Next American City Baltimore has steadily lost population since the end of World War II. With 620,000 residents, the city has just two residents for every three it had at its peak in the 1950s... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Big Data for Prosperity Development Housing Perspectives Recently, I was asked to contribute a chapter to Investing in What Works for America's Communities, a book that examines what we can learn from the history of community development and provides a multitude of ideas from diverse perspectives about the future of the field... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Air Cleaning Skyscrapers This Big City An innovative air-filtration system is the central feature of the proposed CO2ngress Gateway Towers, a skyscraper project envisioned by two students at the Illinois Institute of Technology... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Faking the Message of Happy Placemaking New Geography Picasso said "Art is a lie that tells the truth". Nowadays, there's less truth to that, as the creative process is increasingly about prettying up and papering over what's broke... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Building Bird Friendly Cities Psy Org That's the finding of a new study by leading Australian environmental researchers Jessica Sushinsky, Professor Hugh Possingham and Dr Richard Fuller of The University of Queensland... Read On |
