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City Planning Classic Ahead Of Its Time In Environmental Efficiency (VIDEO)

Progressive Book Club | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

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, 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 08.31.2009 | Politics

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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Searching for a Fourth Urbanism, Part 5: Cityism and Parking

Frank Gruber | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Parking, Urban Design, Cityism, Parking Requirements, Urban Planning, Urbanism, Donald Shoup, Living News
Frank Gruber

Cityism is differentiated by a commitment to join high density and intensity of uses with a congenial urban landscape, and this requires heroic efforts to deal with parking.

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Urban Design After The Age Of Oil

WorldChanging | WorldChanging TeamNovember 9, 2008 8:36 PM | Posted 12.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Post-Oil Age, Environment, Oil, Architecture, Post-Oil, Urban Design, Urban Design After the Age of Oil, Oil Age, Green Design, Home News

A number of great journalists were covering last weekend's Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil symposium in Philadelphia. The Unive...

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Urban Parks Help Defeat Inequality

Treehugger | Posted 12.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Effect of Exposure to Natural Environment on Health-Inequalities, Heat Island Effect, Parks and Health, Urban Design, Green Living, Green Space, Public Parks, Green News

It always amazes me to see how families in Istanbul will take any opportunity to enjoy a scrap of nature, no matter how patchy or trash-strewn the gra...

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New Approach To Urban Planning Caters To Women

USA Today | Haya El Nasser, | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Urban Women, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Women and Urban Planning, Living News

In a neighborhood where 54% of the residents are women, 70% of the households are headed by women and 70% of the elderly are women, the broken walkway...

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