The Captain Ahab of Neighborhood Design
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Clark Williams-Derry A study adds to the evidence that compact neighborhoods reduce driving. Sometimes I feel a little like Captain Ahab, forever in search of an elusive white whale. In my case, though, the whale is ...
Ofgem Plans ‘Smart Grid Cities’ As It Gears Up To Go Green
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Tim Webb Regulator cites plans to provide infrastructure for renewable micro-generation Britain will create up to four "smart grid cities" after the energy regulator set aside £500m from customers' utility bills to start rewiring the ...
Complete Streets Could Help America Lose Weight, Says CDC
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Sarah Goodyear When non-transportation-geeks ask me why transportation policy is a topic worthy of more attention on the national stage, I often start by talking about the public health implications. Not only are tens of thousands ...
London To Plant 2m Trees by 2025, Says Mayor’s Office
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffPress Association Mayor's adviser announces plans to make London 'greener, cleaner and more civilised' with 2m tree plan London needs more parkland and to plant more trees to combat predicted rises in summer temperatures, an environment chief said ...
Carmaggeddon Averted as Broadway Comes to Life
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffWhen New York City opened up new pedestrian zones in the heart of Midtown this summer, naysayers predicted a traffic nightmare. Nearly two months later, we're still waiting for the much-feared Carmaggedon. In this video, Streetfilms funder ...
Carmaggeddon Averted as Broadway Comes to Life
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffWhen New York City opened up new pedestrian zones in the heart of Midtown this summer, naysayers predicted a traffic nightmare. Nearly two months later, we're still waiting for the much-feared Carmaggedon. In this video, Streetfilms funder ...
ReBurbia — What’s YOUR Vision for Transforming the Suburbs?
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffWe all know that North American sprawling exurbs need a 21st century makeover (that "the ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier"), but what will Suburbia 2.0 look like? A star-studded cast of Worldchanging ...
ReBurbia — What’s YOUR Vision for Transforming the Suburbs?
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffWe all know that North American sprawling exurbs need a 21st century makeover (that "the ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier"), but what will Suburbia 2.0 look like? A star-studded cast of Worldchanging ...
Filling Urban Voids . . . With Farms?
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Lisa Stiffler Ripples, and sometimes waves, of the economic tsunami continue to roil through cities across the United States. One product of the downturn is stalled real estate projects. Many shelved projects have left vacant lots, ...
Urban Farming Takes Root in Surprising Ways
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Lisa Stiffler There's a move afoot to spread urban farming and its healthful benefits to folks without their own plots for planting. Will Allen is gaining national attention for Growing Power, a Milwaukee program that's growing food ...
Urban Farming Takes Root in Surprising Ways
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Lisa Stiffler There's a move afoot to spread urban farming and its healthful benefits to folks without their own plots for planting. Will Allen is gaining national attention for Growing Power, a Milwaukee program that's growing food ...
Winning Designs Chosen in Rising Tides Contest
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffEager to help cities adapt to climate change, more than 130 design groups from 18 countries entered the Rising Tides competition to come up with a plan to protect the inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay ...
San Francisco Carves a Park from the Midst of Its Pavement
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Paul Jaffe The entire family of San Francisco city agencies responsible for maintaining its streets made an unconventional decision to close a portion of a street to cars and convert the new space into a ...
What is a City of the Future?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Bill Becker The choice: Will they use the money to become cities of the past or cities of the future?The question: What is a city of the future, anyway?The choice should be simple. A city official’s ...
Reader Report: Review of the Ecological Urbanism conference
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffBy Herbert Simmens Some 57 speakers from a half dozen countries presented projects and ideas spanning three continents - all in three days - at the Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future conference at ...
But is it Affordable?
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Offby Roger Valdez Smart growth and affordable housing advocates struggle to find answers. Last summer, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) prepared a report to the Vancouver City Council on the city’s EcoDensity Initiative pointing out the ...
Making Streets Safer For Seniors
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffBy Elizabeth Press Transportation Alternatives' Safe Routes for Seniors campaign started in 2003 to encourage senior citizens to walk more by improving their pedestrian environment. Funded by the New York State Department of Health's Healthy Heart program, ...
People Friendly Design in London
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffStreetfilms voyaged across the pond to visit some of London’s innovative transportation and public realm projects. We interviewed Paul Harper, a head urban designer at Design for London, who was in charge of the 100 Public ...
Bloomberg Puts Forward A Bold, Transformative New Vision For Broadway
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffBy Aaron Naparstek Before and After: A rendering of a car-free Broadway at 7th Ave., Times Square, looking north. Download a larger image. New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan unveiled plans to pedestrianize a large swath of ...
New Inaba Project on Display in Rome
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments OffWaiting Room [Image: The Waiting Room, Rome, by Jeffrey Inaba/Inaba Projects].Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Projects has a new pavilion on display now in Rome, sponsored by Enel, ...