Blogosphere: Walk Score For Canada, Bike Share & Transit, Future Of Driverless Cars, City Road Diets, Mapping Density, GOP & Cities
January 24, 2013
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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: Walk Score Ranks Canada's Cities Walk Score Blog Vancouver, with a Walk Score of 78, topped Canada's most walkable cities in our first ranking of Most Walkable Canadian Cities and Neighbourhoods. We rated the walkability of more than 300 Canadian cities and 1,200 neighbourhoods... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Drivers Cover 51% of US Road Spending DC Streetsblog There's a persistent misconception in American culture that transit is a big drain on public coffers while roads conveniently and totally pay for themselves through the magic of gas taxes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bike Share Needs to be Part of Transit ASLA Dirt Bike sharing became a surprising common theme throughout last week's Transforming Transportation conference, which was co-hosted by EMBARQ and The World Bank and featured debates, panels, and lectures on the rise of sustainable urban transportation... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Whither the Driverless Car Next American City Audi and Toyota are debuting advanced prototypes of "autonomous cars," which will provide enhanced "smart" crash avoidance and seek parking while the driver hops out and goes about her business.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Road Diets Changing American Cities DC Streetsblog This road diet - or "street rightsizing" - removed one traffic lane on a four lane road through 1.5 miles of the city's College Park neighborhood. Since then, traffic collisions are down 34 percent. Pedestrian activity increased 23 percent and cycling rose 30 percent... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Sustainable Urban Transport Needed ASLA Dirt By 2030, 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities. To avoid an explosion of cars, which creates air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, and traffic deaths, new, more sustainable patterns of urban development are needed.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Budapest Risks EU Subsidies Eltis Due to delays in the development of public transport, Budapest cannot realistically impose a congestion charge until 2016, according to local media citing the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Streetcar Will Be Center of Attention Again Cincinnati City Beat The public spotlight is nothing new for Cincinnati's $125 million streetcar project, but it's a factor supporters are getting increasingly tired of dealing with. Facing new delays and political controversy, the streetcar is once again in the news.. Read On |
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Blogosphere:Hong Kong Trams Revamped, Here to Stay My Sinchew Trundling along slowly against a backdrop of glittering skyscrapers, Hong Kong's trams are entering a new phase of their life but their well-loved retro look is here to stay... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
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Blogosphere: A Better Map of Population Density Drawing Rings Around the World If you want to produce a map of population density the usual way to go about it is to get some Census data on density in different zones (wards, Census tracts, etc) and plot it like the map below.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: MIT's Solar Building Tool Captain Plan It "The city of Cambridge, Mass has teamed up with MIT to produce a Solar Tool that allows people to type an address into a website and get a detailed account of that roof's solar electric potential... Read On |
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Blogosphere: GOP and the City City Journal After the presidential election in November, New York Times exit polls found that Republican candidate Mitt Romney had received only 29 percent of the big-city vote to President Obama's 69 percent... Read On |
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Blogosphere: America's Fastest Growing Cities Forbes (via Smart Growth America) When Chuck Gordon and Mario Feghali started Sparefoot, the 25-year-old entrepreneurs relocated to Austin, Texas, from Los Angeles, having received seed money from local tech incubator Capital Factory... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Will the Lowline Make the Leap Curbed NY Since Dan Barasch and James Ramsey unveiled their plans for an innovative underground park, the project, known as the Lowline, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, gained the support of government officials, and won the hearts of many local residents... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Innovations in Urban Ecosystems The Nature of Cities Cities face unprecedented challenges. Global environmental change is placing increasing pressure on ecosystem functions and their ability to support human activities... Read On |
