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Category Archives: education
“Planning should be aspirational”
“Planning should be aspirational.” Those four words sum up in a nutshell what the planning profession should be all about. They were stated by a friend of mine recently at a meeting and no truer statement was ever said about … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, education, government, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, land use, planning, social equity, urban planning, zoning
Tagged AICP, civics, ethics, goals, humanity, land use, planning, principles, social equity, social justice, urban planning
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Freezeways: Cutting-edge planning for Winter Cities
Atlanta’s ambitious and impressive Belt Line was fostered by a thesis project. Now, comes the Freezeway, a bold theorem by University of British Columbia graduate student Matt Gibbs, which proposes to convert some of Edmonton, Alberta’s bike trails into linear commuter/recreational … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, Alternative transportation, bicycling, Biking, Canada, cities, climate change, culture, education, entertainment, fitness, fun, geography, health, infrastructure, North America, placemaking, planning, product design, spatial design, sports, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, writing
Tagged Alberta, bike trails, Canada, cities, commuting, design, Edmonton, education, exercise, freezeways, skating planning, sports, trails, transportation
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Ten planning lessons from the home of the Big House
Below is my list of ten planning lessons from many years of visiting Ann Arbor and having lived just outside this great city for five years back in the mid-1990s. Enjoy! Town and gown can successfully co-exist. College towns/cities are … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, architecture, art, branding, Cars, cities, civics, colleges, commerce, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, education, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, geography, government, historic preservation, Housing, infrastructure, land use, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, spatial design, sports, sprawl, sustainability, third places, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged ann Arbor, art, cities, colleges, cuisine, downtown, education, geography, land use, Michigan, planning, sprawl, the Big House, U of M, urban planning
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A powerful film – “Short Term 12”
We watched Short Term 12 on Netflix last weekend and were impressed by this remarkable film. The movie is about a temporary treatment facility for troubled teens nicknamed “Short Term 12.” The film is raw, intense, funny, inspiring, heartbreaking, and … Continue reading
“Small, Gritty, and Green” just misses the mark
While quite an interesting read, the book Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World, by Catherine Tumber raised only a few new ideas to this urban planner. Perhaps that was because it … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Alternative energy, art, book reviews, books, branding, cities, civics, climate change, colleges, commerce, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, Economy, education, energy, entrepreneurship, environment, Food, geography, globalization, government, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, inclusiveness, infrastructure, Labor, land use, literature, marketing, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, poverty, psychology, recreation, Renewable Energy, revitalization, schools, Science, Small business, spatial design, sprawl, States, Statistics, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, Trade, transit, transportation, Travel, unemployment, urban planning, weather, writing, zoning
Tagged agriculture, book reviews, books, cities, economics, geography, globalization, industrial cities, land use, Midwest, new economy, Northeast, planning, revitalization, Rustbelt, Small Gritty and Green, sprawl, urban planning
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Roadside Americana: Quaint small college towns
For this list, I chose to keep the town’s size at approximately 15,000 residents or less. Otherwise, it’s increasingly difficult to affix the term “quaint” to a place larger than that population. Berea is the largest community with more than … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, cities, civics, colleges, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, education, entertainment, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, pictures, placemaking, planning, recreation, schools, spatial design, sustainability, third places, tourism, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged Americana, cities, College towns, colleges, education, land use, planning, roadside, schools, tourism, travel
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Searching by bike for truth and reconciliation amid the minefields of Angola
A pretty compelling blog post title, if I do say so myself. It is deliberately so, as the Kindle book I just finished is just that – compelling. Normally, when one reads a book about bike touring, it is an … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Africa, art, bicycling, Biking, book reviews, books, charities, civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, education, entertainment, environment, geography, history, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, literature, military, peace, politics, Travel, writing
Tagged Africa, Angola, bicycling, biking, books, Border War, Namibia, Paul Morris, peace, South Africa, South African Border War, The Halo Trust, travel, war
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