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Tag Archives: NIMBY
More street connections = less cut-through traffic
The argument that connecting new neighborhoods to existing ones causing cut-through traffic is only true if there are limited street connections in the transportation network in the first place. If a community has a well-planned, interconnected transportation network then more … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, bicycling, Biking, Cars, cities, civics, environment, fitness, geography, health, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, placemaking, planning, spatial design, sprawl, sustainability, traffic, transportation, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged cities, cut-through traffic, fitness, grid pattern, health, infrastructure, land use, NIMBY, spatial design, sprawl, traffic, transportation, transportation planning
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A call to…inaction
I completed Edward Glaeser’s 2011 book entitled, Triumph of the City this past weekend. While this book contains a number of useful and noteworthy snippets about the economic importance of cities, especially in the first two-thirds of the text. Sadly … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, architecture, Asia, book reviews, books, Canada, China, cities, civility, climate change, commerce, consumerism, culture, density, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, economics, entrepreneurship, environment, Europe, geography, globalization, government, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, India, infrastructure, land use, new urbanism, North America, Oceania, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, revitalization, skylines, South America, spatial design, sprawl, States, Statistics, sustainability, technology, tourism, Trade, transit, transportation, UK, urban planning, weather, writing, zoning
Tagged book reviews, books, cities, economics, economy, land use, literature, NIMBY, planning, poverty, urban planning, writing, zoning
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Be a YIMBY!
Attended a fantastic collaborative meeting of local advocacy groups this morning. During the conversation, a positive term was coined, YIMBY or Yes In My Back Yard. Given the number of links to the term on the net, apparently this was … Continue reading
Posted in Biking, Cities, civics, civility, Climate Change, diversity, economics, Environment, Health care, land use, Love, Passenger rail, politics, pollution, poverty, Transportation
Tagged community, cycling, land use, NIMBY, Place, transportation, walking
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