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The story of a man who is “subverting conventional building practice with an act of permanence, constructing an energy-efficient, multi-century legacy home for the price of a vinyl-clad, production-built box.”
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A few weeks ago, I attended a Complete Streets for California conference hosted by UCLA with my Complete Streets Audit course. One of the contentions mentioned for the Los Angeles region is to look at parking lots as a way of activating the street. Working on retrofitting for parks is done in New York with the High Line . Parklets are San Francisco territory. Bike lanes are gracefully utilized by Portland.
City Studies
Urban street fairs and festivals are public indication of the character and uniqueness of the community. They are important commercial activity and most ardent way of enticing people to use the public space. Street fairs, which once created lively gathering spaces, now offer less heterogeneous collections and are not favorable for local vendors to participate. In June 2010, The Center for Urban Future released a report on ‘New Visions for New Read More ... Why do people set apart some places as “Great place to live in”?
Urban Shapers
Source: elizabethan.org Most often, the term “duopoly” is used the context of business to identify those markets that are dominated by two primary suppliers who exert great influence. Examples would be Fedex versus UPS in overnight shipping within the United States; Pepsi versus Coca-Cola for worldwide soft drink sales; Republican verus Democrat in American politics, or Kindle versus Nook in electronic readers.
Panethos | All cultures, all inclusive.
Morgan Clendaniel reports on a Minneapolis artistic intervention, Urban Plant Tags, that call attention to often overlooked amenities in the built environment. Josh Stephens describes the fierce battle raging between Beverly Hills and Metro, the region's transportation authority, over the proposed route of the long-planned westward subway extension. Vauhini Vara explains what a new upscale eatery could mean for the future character of low-income communities like Bayview and Hunter’s Point and their residents. A new report by Kevin Watkins tries to make visible the horrifying threat to children's health that road traffic presents. It is the leading cause of death globally for young people between the ages of 10 and 24, reports Sarah Goodyear. Tom Stoelker summarizes the tenor of a flurry of bills introduced this week at a City Council hearing that seek to revamp the way business gets done at the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Planetizen | Urban Planning, Design and Development Network