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Balkanology, New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe

Friday, November 14th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

Sarajevo, 2008. ©Wolfgang Thaler Last week, just a few hours after having landed in Switzerland for the IETM Autumn Plenary Meeting (which focused on the very sexy theme of 'misunderstanding'), i was sitting in a train ...

Waste Towers

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

[Image: London waste towers, designed by Dow Jones Architects, via Building Design]. London's Dow Jones Architects have proposed "a radical series of waste-crunching towers across London to help meet recycling targets and generate low-cost energy for local ...

Green Urban Economic Development

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

Our allies at SPUR recently released a report, Growing green: How San Francisco can become a leader in the cleantech boom, which while focused on San Francisco (as you might have gleaned from the title) makes ...

Congrats, Next American City

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

The urbanist journal Next American City is on my short list of critical urban resources. In comparison to many policy- and planning-oriented magazines, it's routinely intelligent, passionate and forward-looking -- I sometimes disagree with the perspectives ...

Affordability and the City

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

Downtown housing affordability is an international problem. Interesting article:  Alan Ehrenhalt argues in The New Republic that cities throughout North America are undergoing a "demographic inversion," in which the center city is once again becoming home to ...

The Future of Shopping Malls: An Image Essay

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

By Morgan Greenseth Mall culture in the United States -- at least as we know it -- is coming to an end. Last month, the fall of Steve & Barry's became the next addition to a series ...

Concrete Dragon, a Book Review

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

We've written a lot about China and the future of the planet. If you want to better understand the role China will play in the future, you might want to start with The Concrete Dragon: China's ...

Permapave and Green Infrastructure

Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

We've written before about porous pavement, and the role it could play in helping to green our storm water infrastructure. Now Blaine tells us about a new one, Permapave: Permapave attempts to address the storm water ...

Gas and Home Prices

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

by Clark Williams-Derry Transportation costs are affecting home prices in U.S. suburbs. It seems to be a trend: the press is noticing that rising transportation costs are starting to erode the value of housing prices in ...

Stranded in the Places Cheap Gas Built

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

Paul Krugman writes about why the answer to the problem of the car is not, or at least not entirely, under the hood, and makes this nice point: Changing the geography of American metropolitan areas will be ...

Stranded in the Places Cheap Gas Built

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

Paul Krugman writes about why the answer to the problem of the car is not, or at least not entirely, under the hood, and makes this nice point: Changing the geography of American metropolitan areas will be ...

Using Disasters for Systemic Change

Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

After reading Justus Stewart’s recent article about a BIM collaboration I immediately thought of the Earthquake in China, the Cyclone in Myanmar, Hurricane Katrina and the SE Asian Tsunami, and last year’s mini-disaster in the San ...

Book Review: Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

By Peter Newman and Isabella Jennings Reviewed by: Davidya Kasperzyk AIA Architect and Bioregional Planner Searching for a universal theory to save our precious orb is a compelling action pursued by many. In this noble effort ...

The Greening of Greensburg

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Urban Design and Planning | Comments Off

Last May, an EF 5 tornado hit western Kansas. In Greensburg, the storm leveled every building, picked up cars and tossed them into rooftops, demolished the streets, left more than two-thirds of the town’s population homeless ...