Copenhagen is fast approaching and little conversation has been given to the role land use has in reducing greenhouse emissions. A Georgia Tech Professor makes a strong argument that land use policy needs to be a top priority. From Science Daily | Reducing Greenhouse Gases May Not Be Enough To Slow Climate Change Georgia Tech [...]
by Liz Neves If we speak of a healthy community, we cannot be speaking of a community that is merely human. We are talking about a neighborhood of humans in a place, plus the place itself: its soil, its water, its air, and all the families and tribes of the nonhuman creatures that belong to [...]
by Andre Blackman Over the past 100 years, public health in the United States has grown in importance by leaps and bounds. Much of the field has its historical roots based in events surrounding disease prevention, population safety and a slew of regulations that were enacted to generally make the country a safer place to [...]
The overall sentiment within the development community believes lending institutions really need to “catch up” and understand the benefits of walkable development. It isn’t the lack of vision that hinders the development of walkable communities but a lack of understanding from those that underwrite the projects. From The Salt Lake Tribune | Are Banks a [...]
Strip malls as community economic generators? New model explores leveraging community strip malls into engines of economic activity versus cash cows for their owners. From Planetzien | Creating Neighborhood Capital from Strip Malls Strip malls are in virtually every American city, but they’re rarely an important part of those cities. Ava Bromberg says they can [...]
by Liz Neves In the big city, on any given day, anything seems possible. Millions of thinkers, dreamers, and doers exchange ideas, creative sparks, and currency. There are plenty of reasons to be a city dweller – more jobs, much inspiration, more opportunities to help people who need it. But there’s one big drawback to [...]
by Tommy Manuel Cities are _____. Cities are organic. They are like plants. Cities are like ecosystem. Cities are jungles. Cities are like bacterial colonies. Cities are fortresses against the perils of nature. Cities are machines, engines of culture and progress. Cities are like libraries, or like a living museum. Cities are amusement parks, and [...]
by Christi Elflein I became a city planner because I wanted to marry my love for cities and my love for the environment. I am not your typical “environmentalist.” I am petrified of most animals and the only tree I hug is my Christmas tree before we send it to the curb. Yes I do [...]
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