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Category Archives: environment
Most congested megacity index for 2014
Below are the results from the most congested megacity index which are based on an interesting and fairly simple measure of street congestion – the average number of stops and starts per vehicle during a given year. Please note that … Continue reading
Posted in cities, planning, transit, transportation, land use, bicycling, environment, health, spatial design, sprawl, walking, Europe, urban planning, Asia, geography, South America, UK, sustainability, infrastructure, China, pollution, India, North America, Statistics, Active transportation, Cars, civility, humanity, Passenger rail, Alternative transportation, commerce, logistics, traffic
Tagged cities, planning, transportation, cars, Beijing, Istanbul, geography, Paris, travel, traffic, spatial design, London, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Shanghai, Jakarta, Bangkok, New York City, Los Angeles, Moscow, congestion, Buenaos aires, Rio, newgeography
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Review of “Inventing Los Alamos” – Atomic utopia and urban paradox
I just had the pleasure of reading a most interesting book entitled, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community by Jon Hunner. Part historical account, part urban planning study, Inventing Los Alamos is a worthwhile read for anyone … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, book reviews, books, cities, civics, culture, economic development, energy, environment, geography, government, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, literature, military, placemaking, planning, politics, product design, Science, spatial design, technology, tourism, Travel, urban planning, writing
Tagged atomic age, books, cities, Cold War, environment, Jon Hunner, land use, literature, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, military, New Mexico, non-fiction, research, Science, technology, urban planning, utopia, writing
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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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The sins of suburban stadium sprawl
The following blogpost seemed timely and appropriate with the Super Bowl coming up this weekend in Glendale, Arizona, a large suburb of Phoenix. More on Glendale at the conclusion of this post. Quite often among the planning world there are debates on … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Alternative transportation, bicycling, Biking, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, density, downtown, economic development, entertainment, environment, geography, government, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, Maps, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, social equity, spatial design, sports, sprawl, sustainability, third places, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged baseball, equity, football, geography, government, infrastructure, land use, planning, soccer, social equity, sprawl, stadiums, transportation
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The National Water Trails System continues to stream ahead
Here’s a list of those rivers currently included in the National Water Trails System and the approximate paddling mileage included as part of each designated trail. They are presented in alphabetical order. Alabama Scenic River Trail (Alabama) = 631 miles … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Alternative transportation, environment, fitness, fun, geography, health, infrastructure, land use, Maps, nature, placemaking, rivers/watersheds, sustainability, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, water trails
Tagged fitness, geography, National Water Trails System, NPS, River-Horse, tourism, trails, travel, water trails
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Can a remote uranium mining town become a retirement mecca?
While more of an academic publication than a great literary work of non-fiction, Boom Town Blues: Elliot Lake remains an enlightening and useful read. The book summarizes what can only be described as the “great experiment of Elliot Lake, Ontario.” Now, … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, book reviews, books, Canada, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, culture, economic development, economic gardening, economics, Economy, energy, environment, geography, government, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, literature, Mining, Nature, North America, placemaking, planning, product design, seasons, spatial design, Statistics, tourism, Travel, urban planning, weather, writing
Tagged book reviews, books, Boom Town Blues, Canada, cities, Daniel Burham, Elliot Lake, Elliot Lake Retirement Living, geography, mining, Ontario, retirement, tourism, travel, uranium
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Ten planning lessons from Colorado’s Front Range
Below is my list of ten planning lessons learned from multiple visits to Colorado’s Front Range in the past 18 months. Some are positive, some are not. They are presented in no particular order of preference. Cheers! A large, auto-centric city … Continue reading
Posted in cities, planning, transit, transportation, land use, bicycling, environment, architecture, economic development, history, revitalization, nature, entertainment, new urbanism, spatial design, sprawl, tourism, zoning, placemaking, airports, urban planning, geography, sustainability, infrastructure, historic preservation, Active transportation, Cars, Housing, Passenger rail, States, Travel, Alternative transportation, air travel, visual pollution, airport planning, commerce, downtown, aviation, Advocacy, Railroads
Tagged cities, planning, land use, commuter rail, geography, new urbanism, sprawl, biking, airports, vistas, mountains, spatial design, Colorado, Denver, Wyoming, Front Range
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