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Urban Planning For The Social Networking Age

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Livehoods Cmu, Livehoods Pittsburgh, City Neighborhoods, Foursquare, Carnegie Mellon, Neighborhoods, Culture Centers, New York, City Planning, Livehoods Carnegie Mellon, Livehoods San Francisco, Livehoods Foursquare, Cultural Habits, San Francisco, Livehoods, Pittsburgh, Livehoods Ny, Culture News

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science have developed a program they're calling Livehoods, which organizes "check-ins" from the p...

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How To Save Suburbia

2012-02-16-archdailyreal.jpg | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Less Driving, Suburbia, Urban Planning, Architecture, Detroit, Cars, Suburban Architecture, New Urbanism, Saving Suburbia, City Planning, Culture News

By Vanessa Quirk Click here for original article. Copyright Flickr User CC tango_28 Poverty and violence, boarded windows and weedy lawns...

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Parking in Detroit Is Fascinating

Toby Barlow | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Downtown, Parking, City Planning, Detroit, Detroit Parking Meters, Detroit Parking, Parking Meters, Detroit Politics, Detroit News
Toby Barlow

Less than a year ago, Detroit extended the hours of downtown parking enforcement till 10 pm. Making parking onerous and expensive is a great way to send people looking for a free, open space off where they know they can find one.

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PHOTOS: Move To An Entire IKEA City!

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Ikea, Solar Energy, Urban Planning, Ikea City, Renewable Energy, Strand East, Ikea Urban Planning, Sustainability, London, Sweden, Home Furnishings, City Planning, Business News

Do you ever dream of an entire city filled with Swedish meatballs and do-it-yourself furniture? That dream could soon be a reality. IKEA, the Swed...

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Let's Talk: Democracy Depends on Civility

Jennifer Gennari | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Town Hall Debate, State and Local Government, Town Halls, Town Hall Meetings, Global Warming, Local Government, San Francisco Government, City Planning, Bay Area, Protesters, San Francisco News
Jennifer Gennari

These days, self-government is under assault. Unfortunately, a minority faction is overtaking town halls around the nation and suppressing any discussion at all. In the Bay Area the problem is particularly acute.

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LOOK: 8 Urban Planning Designs For The Future Of NYC

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Manhattan Grid Plan, NY Real Estate, The Architectural League of New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York Real Estate, City Planning, Architizer, New York News

Earlier this year we marked the 200th anniversary of the Manhattan grid plan, that easy-to-navigate layout of streets and avenues that gives us Manhat...

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City Shaping III: The Philadelphia Story

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Horticulture, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Urban Design, Philadelphia, Landscape Architecture, City Planning, Philadelphia Urban Planning, Philadelphia City Planning, Philadelphia Urban Design, Arts News
Charles A. Birnbaum

For more than three centuries, city planning, landscape architecture and a unique civic ambition that emphasizes horticulture as much as the pedestrian experience in its public spaces and streetscapes, have made Philadelphia a fascinating city.

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Bangkok Underground: How to Prepare for a Flood

Susanna Murley | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Floods, Flooding, Bangkok, Adaptation, Climate Change, Flood Prevention, Bangkok Floods, City Planning Floods, Flooding Bangkok, Floods Bangkok, Bangkok-Thailand, City Planning, Green News
Susanna Murley

Bangkok is a city that has been dealing with flooding for hundreds of years. It's built on water. As the city has modernized, and its people moved on land, flooding has become more of an issue.

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Moscow To Double In Size Over 20 Years

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Russia, Moscow Population, Moscow, Moscow Population Control, Dmitry Medvedev, Urban Planning, Moscow to Double in Size, City Planning, World News

Moscow officials have approved an ambitious plan to more than double the Russian capital's size in an effort to alleviate the city's chronic overcrowd...

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High Line Phase Two Is OPEN

AP/The Huffington Post | LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Mayor Bloomberg, High Line Section 2, Meatpacking District, NY Around Town, High Line 23, The High Line, City Planning, The High Line Phase Two, New York News

NEW YORK — The ribbon was cut Tuesday on the long-awaited second section of the High Line, revealing a lush green lawn, prime lounging spots and a l...

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Can Architects Fix The Suburbs?

David Glick | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Surburbs, Droog, City Design, Renny Ramaker, New York City, Design, Architecture, City, Tribeca, Attention Clinic, Monty Python, City Planning, Levittown, Surburban, Suburbia, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Museums, Domesticity, American Dream, Arts News
David Glick

On a rainy Saturday in April, black clad city dwellers descended onto the quiet streets of Levittown, NY. Completely out of their element, and disori...

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Detroit Turns to Children To Plan Its Future

Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Detroit, Future Detroit, Future City Competition, Future Detroit Youth Symposium, Detroit Schools, Urban Planning, Symposium, City Planning, Education Reform, Education News

Recent plans for Detroit's urban renewal came from an unexpected group: children, who will arguably be most affected by the city's future development....

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City Planning: How Cities Can Save Local Manufacturing Businesses

Larry MacDonald | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Smb, Internet Business, Taxes, Search Engine Marketing, Economic Development, Online Business, Sba, Innovation, American-Manufacturing, Seo, Local Government, Small Business Lending, City Planning, Manufacturing Jobs, Competition, Shopping Carts, Marketing, Local News, Business News
Larry MacDonald

All across America, small to medium manufacturing businesses are shutting down, resulting in lost jobs and lost revenues for cities. Everyone loses. ...

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Building the Just City: Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasilia

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Design, Brazil, Postmodernism, Urbanism, Urban Planning, City Planning, Shantytown, Urban-Population-Growth, Book Reviews, Architecture, Books News
Frank Gruber

Brazil was not the only developing country beset with exploding urban populations but the transition to democracy in Brazil allowed for a dramatic change in the goals and tools of urban planning.

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Chicago Debates -- The Malling of Chicago

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Urbanism, Malls, Thanksgiving 2010, Shopping, Black Friday, Suburbs, Walmart, Debate, Chicago, Development, City Planning, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

Is Chicago becoming the "Suburb of the Century" in the twenty-first? Are big box retailers eating up our neighborhoods? If you care about our city, be a part of the debate.

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Fifty Cities in Twenty Years

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Som, Duda Paine, China, China World TradeCenter, Hok, New York Architecture, Chinese Architecture, Chinese Architects, City Planning, World News
J. Michael Welton

The Chinese people, their collective memory wiped clean by Mao's Cultural Revolution, need context for their new cities. Not surprisingly, American architects are swarming there.

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Making Plans; a Review of Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, American Planning Association, Hurricane Katrina, Urban Planning, City Planning, New Orleans Recovery, Books News
Frank Gruber

It's important to recollect that although planning has been instrumental in the creation and development of New Orleans, New Orleans still exists as a great city because of a planning failure.

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Thinking About a Textile Recycling Program? What Every City Should Consider

Mattias Wallander | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Governments, Usagain, Used Clothing, City Planning, Recycling, Green Jobs, Recycle, Waste, Textiles, Clothes, Reducing Waste, Green News
Mattias Wallander

City recycling programs can't stop at bottles and cans. There's still a lot more local leaders can do to drive down the amount of waste sent to costly landfills each year.

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What I Want From LA in the Next Decade

Marc Porter Zasada | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Life, Los Angeles, Pedestrians, Urban, City Planning, World City, Eli Broad, Los Angeles News
Marc Porter Zasada

Over the next 10 years, I want you to become a city -- that's right, a real city, like London or New York, Paris or Tokyo. Okay, maybe a collection of cities.

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Grey to Green. Innovating the Sustainable City.

Marc Stoiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Cities, Durban, Calgary, Suburban Nation, Sustainabilty, Architecture, New Urbanism, Andres Duany, International Centre for Sustainable Cities, City Planning, Green News
Marc Stoiber

Cities cover only 3% of the world's land mass, but they house 50% of the world's population, consume 75% of the world's resources and emit a correspon...

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Steve Price: Digital Artist Imagines The Future Cities

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Architecture, Green Design, Steve Price, The Future of Cities, City Planning, Green News

Imagine some ugly, underused street in your town, marked by drab buildings, wide streets, and forbidding expanses of parking lot. If you have to go he...

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Boulder's Transit Village Plan Debated

Bob Wells | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transit Village, Boulder, New Urbanism, Matt Appelbaum, City Planning, Boulder-Politics, Colorado Politics, Fastracks, Denver News
Bob Wells

The discussion was mostly polite and the issues complex as 70 people crowded into a downtown Library room to hear four experts discuss Boulder's planned Transit Village redevelopment plan.

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Chicago Transit at a Crossroads

Aaron Renn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Transit Authority, Public Transportation, Pace, Metra, Midway Airport, Urban Planning, Cta-Orange-Line, City Planning, Illinois Budget, Cta, Indianapolis, Rod Blagojevich, Mayor Daley, Global Cities, Rta, CTA Bus Tracker, El, Chicago News
Aaron Renn

The CTA doomsday budget, even if it doesn't come to pass, has done a great service by showing the city the inevitable future. Service has been trending downward for decades.

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City Planning Classic On Environmental Efficiency (VIDEO)

Progressive Book Club | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmentalist, David Owen, Jane Jacobs, New York City, Environment, Urban Development, Environmental Activism, Environmental Efficiency, Urban Design, Books, Environmental Books, City Planning, Urban Planning, City Planning Books, Video, Books News

Progressive Book Club In the annals of urban design and city planning, no book holds a higher place than The Death and Life of Great American Cities ...

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A Fourth Urbanism, Part 6: Limitations on Urbanism

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Design, Cityism, New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Urbanism, City Planning, Politics News
Frank Gruber

Bad schools and even the perception of disorder drive people from the city more effectively than bad urban form, and keeping people in the city is more important than the form the city takes.

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