PlaceMatters
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffPlaceMatters PlaceMatters is a fascinating nonprofit operated by Ken Snyder, formerly an expert in the Department of Energy’s Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development. PlaceMatters offers a toolbox of cutting-edge software that enables more intelligent community planning ...
PlaceMatters: Cutting Edge Software for Community Planning
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffPlaceMatters PlaceMatters is a fascinating nonprofit operated by Ken Snyder, formerly an expert in the Department of Energy’s Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development. PlaceMatters offers a toolbox of cutting-edge software that enables more intelligent community planning ...
The Chinese Dream
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffThe Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction by the Dynamic City Foundation, Neville Mars, Adrian Hornsby The result of several years of work by experts reflecting on possible scenarios for urbanization in China in 2020, the urban ...
The Chinese Dream
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffThe Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction by the Dynamic City Foundation, Neville Mars, Adrian Hornsby The result of several years of work by experts reflecting on possible scenarios for urbanization in China in 2020, the urban ...
Global Green
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffGlobal Green is the U.S. affiliate of Green Cross International, the organization created by Mikhail Gorbachev to promote a more sustainable world. Run by Matt Petersen, Global Green has helped design homes for the victims of ...
Global Green
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffGlobal Green is the U.S. affiliate of Green Cross International, the organization created by Mikhail Gorbachev to promote a more sustainable world. Run by Matt Petersen, Global Green has helped design homes for the victims of ...
The Concrete Dragon
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffThe Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World by Thomas J. Campanella With impressive figures to show how the Chinese do it bigger, bolder and faster, urban design professor Campanella ...
The Concrete Dragon
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffThe Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World by Thomas J. Campanella With impressive figures to show how the Chinese do it bigger, bolder and faster, urban design professor Campanella ...
The Great Neighborhood Book
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffThe Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking by Jay Walljasper Full of both specific examples and suggestions (drawn from nonprofit think-tank Project for Public Spaces) and more gut-level observations about what makes ...
The Great Neighborhood Book
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffThe Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking by Jay Walljasper Full of both specific examples and suggestions (drawn from nonprofit think-tank Project for Public Spaces) and more gut-level observations about what makes ...
The World’s Greatest Cycling Cities
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffBy Peter Walker My favourite cycling cities are Beijing for the buzz, Paris for its politeness, the serenity of Copenhagen and Waterloo Bridge for the romantic reveries. What are yours? All urban areas have a different character, and ...
They Paved Paradise…And Put Up An Airport?
Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffBy Sean Conroe Word on the street is that New York City may be getting a new addition: The Manhattan Airport. And what better place to develop it than on the largest piece of undeveloped land in ...
Bright Neighbor: New Tool Helps Neighbors Build Better Communities
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Sarah Kuck Bright Neighbor is an online platform that helps community members work together more effectively. Their online social tools allow users to plan out public events, share common spaces, barter and trade time and ...
Bright Neighbor: New Tool Helps Neighbors Build Better Communities
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Sarah Kuck Bright Neighbor is an online platform that helps community members work together more effectively. Their online social tools allow users to plan out public events, share common spaces, barter and trade time and ...
Abu Dhabi Chosen to Host IRENA
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffInternational Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have chosen Abu Dhabi as the agency's first headquarters and French diplomat Hélène Pelosse as its first director-general. A coalition of African and Arab nations celebrated locating the agency in the ...
Smaller Towns And Cities Get Aggressive On Energy Efficiencies
Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffBy Roger Valdez Ambitious programs to build sustainable communities. I have written about energy efficiency programs in Cascadia’s three largest cities and how each of these communities is working to combine federal, state and local dollars ...
Is Your Neighborhood Good For Your Health?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffBy Roger Valdez Study looks for connections between housing and health. Housing and public health advocates have long wanted to establish an empirical connection between the built environment and people’s health. Ideally such evidence would confirm what we ...
Is Your Neighborhood Good For Your Health?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffBy Roger Valdez Study looks for connections between housing and health. Housing and public health advocates have long wanted to establish an empirical connection between the built environment and people’s health. Ideally such evidence would confirm what we ...
Cities Have Smaller Carbon Footprints
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffBy Roger Valdez The Center for Neighborhood Technology has made a new addition to its Housing + Transportation Affordability Index website that maps carbon dioxide emissions. The press release announces that “Urban Living Helps Curb Global Warming” ...
Our Urban Future
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Cities, Green News | Comments OffSlicing the data on cities reveals fascinating patterns. Trend watch! Supercities will be all the rage in the 21st century, as fully 2/3 of the world's population concentrates in urban regions. This centuries-long migration represents the culmination ...