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Universal Principles for Creating a Sustainable City For Professor Wulf Daseking, the City of Freiburg's Head of Urban Planning, longevity and continuity aren't just buzzwords on a whiteboard but themes to live and plan by. After 26 years at the helm of Germany's Environmental Capital, Daseking embodies the notion of sustainability in a city that has seen only four planning directors since World War II. Daseking and his team have also found creative ways to accommodate population growth within its coveted city limits by using available land to build bustling eco-villages: Rieselfeld, a former brownfield area, and Vauban, once a French military base, are ecologically integrated and socially diverse developments that make car-free and high density living easy, fun, and a matter of civic pride for its residents.

American Housing Survey Version 1.2 of Public Use File released on April 1, 2013 2011 AHS National Summary Report tables. 2011 AHS public use file (v1.2). 2011 AHS webinar slides (ppt, pdf), took place on October 23, 2012 A recent interview by Shawn Bucholtz with Federal News Radio on the American Housing Survey, providing a comprehensive overview of its purpose and methodology. Disability and Accessibility Variables in the American Housing Market This webinar features one of PD&R's Senior Economists, David Vandenbroucke, discussing the 2011 AHS topical module that covers accessibility features. The AHS is the largest, regular national housing sample survey in the United States. The U.S.

Crime and Crime Prevention in Greater Johannesburg: The views of police station commissioners Written by Rauch, J. Rauch, J. (1998). Crime and Crime Prevention in Greater Johannesburg: The views of police station commissioners. Paper presented at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Seminar No. 2, 12 March. Seminar No. 2, 1998 Presenter: Janine Rauch Study: America will soon see Labor Day-like traffic, all year long (Photo: Traffic projections, U.S. Travel Association) For those who hate heavy traffic -- and really, who doesn't?

Civil Society, Refuse to be Abused Soon after I posted my previous blog on observer participation in the Green Climate Fund (GCF), this arrived in my mailbox via the Earth Negotiations Bulletin:…stakeholders felt let down by IPBES. Some said that whereas the platform seemed to acknowledge their potential valuable input, their participation was underemphasized at this meeting…. the inability to resolve the issue of the admission of observers left some wondering whether “observers should go on strike.” The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is a new panel that is meant to do for biodiversity what the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change does for climate change, by becoming the leading scientific body for assessing the state of the planet’s biodiversity, its ecosystems and the essential services they provide to society. It seems to me that the IPBES observers have the right idea when they talk of going on strike. Why does civil society allow itself to be used in this way?

This is your brain in the city « Per Square Mile For a kid who spent much of his childhood outdoors—alternately splitting time between the wooded park down the street, my friends’ backyards, and a patch of countryside my parent’s tended—I have been spending a lot of time in rather large cities as an adult. Ever since I left college, I’ve lived in cities that count their residents in hundreds of thousands and metro areas that count in the millions. It’s gotten me to wondering, what effect are these throngs of people having on my brain? An answer to that question scrolled across my Twitter feed last week in the form of a paper published in Nature. Start a Community Development Corporation To start a community development corporation, you need to take these steps: define the community need and geographic boundaries find some like-minded individuals form a steering committee discuss and refine your statement of need and preferred focus areas determine whether you will duplicate efforts of any existing organization, and if so, try to join or reform it share your vision informally with some community members and incorporate their criticisms and priorities provide a face-to-face forum in which interested individuals are invited to learn of the vision of the steering committee think about how you will have enough money to do what you want to do consult an attorney, determine the legal form of the corporation, and recruit and name an initial board of directors actually start a community development corporation, get some money together, apply for non-profit status providing you want it Many more tips and things to consider follow. Determining Duplication of Effort

Urban Regional Development & Planning - Printed and Multimedia Material available in the Wits Architecture Library re. Yeoville projects (ask at the desk for the 'Yeoville Archives'): 1. State to begin innovative rail service between Seaport District and Back Bay - Business news This is a summary. To read the whole story subscribe to BostonGlobe.com Imagine finishing lunch at any of the wildly popular restaurants of Fort Point Channel, walking around the corner, and boarding a direct train that will shuttle you in ten minutes to the figurative heart of Boston, Copley Square. Turns out this is not just your imagination. The state, with no fanfare, has set aside tens of millions of dollars to launch an innovative train service on a dormant rail line between a pair of the city’s most vital neighborhoods – the Seaport District and the Back Bay.

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James Howard Kunstler A road map for tomorrow's cities by James Howard Kunstler I LOVE THOSE CITIES-of-the-future illustrations from the old pop-culture bin. In “yesterday’s tomorrow,” they always get things so wonderfully wrong. Bike & Build: Hitting the road for housing Bike & Build participants spend their summers trekking across the U.S. building houses along the way. For Brittany Simmerman, a first-year law student at Indiana University Law-Indianapolis, the program offered invigorating summers that instilled in her a deep devotion to the affordable housing cause. And now she is calling on Indy to support the non-profit organization made up of young adults who bike cross-country and build homes in some of America's poorest areas. The ages of Bike & Build participants range from 18 to 25.