Quote of the Day
Financial Times
"You find a lot of new suburbs are now building in a town centre with a fake history,"
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(September 8, 2010)
Orlando: Planning the Other Step in Transport
Orlando Sentinel
Ken Nuckols is a tech writer and bicyclist who thinks the SunRail commuter train could create a new business opportunity for him. He is seeking investors to set up a bike-commuter station near a SunRail stop in downtown Orlando. He envisions a place where cyclists who ride the train could secure their bikes, shower and maybe get some simple repairs...
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(September 8, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Boston Globe
"Some planners envision a landscape that isn't recognizably urban, suburban, or rural, but some combination of the three, with multistory apartment buildings next to working farms, and public transit lines extending through neighborhoods where most households have ample space to park their cars."
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(September 7, 2010)
Virginia Beach: City Looks to Change Growth Pattern
Virginian Pilot
For years, Virginia Beach has been a textbook example of suburban sprawl. Housing booms in the 1970s, '80s and '90s led to miles of strip malls, car dealerships and big-box stores with acres of parking lots. Now, the city is pretty much full...
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(September 7, 2010)
Indianapolis: Don't Miss Chance to Jump Aboard Transit
Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis had a better public transportation system a century ago than it does today.Hard to believe? Well, consider that in 1910, according to the city's archives, about 200 passenger trains pulled into Union Station each day....
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(September 7, 2010)
National: How to Shrink a City
Boston Globe
Since cities first got big enough to require urban planning, its practitioners have focused on growth. From imperial Rome to 19th-century Paris and Chicago and up through modern-day Beijing, the duty of city planners and administrators has been to impose order as people flowed in, buildings rose up, and the city limits extended outward into the hinterlands...
(September 7, 2010)
Blogosphere: You Can't Have Good TOD Without T
Planetizen
Philip Langdon argues that if the U.S. is going to shift toward compact, less resource-consuming patterns of development, Americans will have to rely increasingly on mass transit - so it better work...
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(September 7, 2010)
Quote of the Day
Virginian Pilot
"My intent was to get rail so the rail in Norfolk doesn't become a rail to nowhere,"
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(September 3, 2010)
Phoenix: Developer Waiting for Right Moment
Arizona Republic
Reid Butler has a vision to transform his property on the southwestern corner of Central Avenue and Camelback Road into a pedestrian-friendly hub connected to the light-rail line. He's just waiting for the economy to brighten and for neighbors to accept his proposed development, as yet unnamed...
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(September 3, 2010)
Salt Lake City: Transit, Density Concern Citizens
Salt Lake Tribune
While areas of this South Davis County community adjacent to the freeway have exploded with big-box growth, the future of the city's old Main Street is in question. For several months, city planners have worked with consultants and the community to refine a land-use plan for the one-mile corridor between Parrish and Pages Lanes...
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(September 2, 2010)
