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The Planning Department’s four divisions, City-wide & Regional Planning, Community Planning, Current Planning and Central Area Planning advise Council on policies which guide growth and change in the city.
City of Vancouver, Planning Department, Planning
urbanism.org
In Japan, ‘public’ is more of a mental construct than a physical presence” and the concept of ‘privacy’ has never taken hold.
Jim Lau shares the landscape architecture work of the New York State Department of Transportation, including a skatepark under the BQE, a waterfront park in Inwood, and an extensive greenway along the Bronx River.
Urban Omnibus
Morgan Clendaniel reports on a Minneapolis artistic intervention, Urban Plant Tags, that call attention to often overlooked amenities in the built environment.
Planetizen | Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Brent Toderian's blog | Planetizen
Can a city's "design culture" be deliberately grown and fostered?
The Social Cities of Tomorrow Conference was a forum for the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experience between diverse participants, stakeholders, and experts.
Shareable: Cities
Steven Dornfeld | MinnPost | March 22nd | A government study finds that, especially in the Twin Cities metro area, people in Minnesota are today more likely to forgo their cars and take public transportation.
Next American City
Streetsblog New York City
A study released today finds that two out of three motorists speed on Brooklyn’s McGuinness Boulevard [ PDF ], a notorious Greenpoint thoroughfare where locals have for years called on the city to take action to prevent pedestrian and cyclist injuries and deaths.
The Stone Cold Facts « Candy Chang
Candy Chang is an artist, designer, and urban planner who explores making cities more comfortable and contemplative places. She believes in the potential of introspection and collective wisdom in public space to improve our communities and our personal well-being.
Cliff House, Halifax architect Brian MacKay-Lyons’ creation, has won his firm its sixth Governor General’s medal.
consulting4architects blog | Information and jobs for architects and interior designers
Here's a fun weekend read, by British transit-marathon champion Adham Fisher, shown at right in the process of conquering Madrid.
Human Transit
Amidst all the bike share discussion in NYC at the moment, I thought I’d post the ‘director’s cut’ of a (very) short article on the subject of bike sharing I have in the current Outside , written of course before yesterday’s (expected) announcement of the program, to be run by Alta. Faster than you can say “feasibility study,” bike share programs have been popping up in American cities large and small.
How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic
Cooltown Studios
While ‘one size fits all’ may have been the mass production model of the industrial revolution, it’s encouraging to know that the model driving the creative, information, knowledge economy of the present is based on providing what people truly want.You’ve no doubt heard of WalkScore’s latest: Bikescoring major cities.