Tag: Urban Planning - Page 4
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How Croudsourcing is Helping Water 10,000 Trees in Chicago
Thousands of young trees in Chicago (and your city) are at risk of dying in this drought. Tips on how you can help water trees to ensure their survival.
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City of Drummondville, Quebec Says "Rip Out This Garden"
City says front yards should be grass, not vegetables, and is planning to ban them all.
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Toronto Once Again Building A Waterfront of Broken Dreams
Gorgeous competition winning scheme succumbing to value engineering.
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Fast Food Imports are Linked to Rising Obesity in Persian Gulf
Wealth and fast food are changing the habits of people in the Persian Gulf leading to skyrocketing obesity rates.
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Is the High Line Park "A Tad Fatuous" or "A Gorgeously Executed Gem"?
An interesting but confused essay by hipster with child.
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Is New York City Running out of Space for Bees?
Two years after legalizing urban beekeeping New York City could be running out of space for bees.
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A Bucolic Vision of An Agenda 21 Future, And More Agenda 21 Updates
When Agenda 21 is the law, we will have high speed rail, bike lanes, parks and lots of people to talk to in our high-rises. Forget about that camping trip, though.
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Singapore's Supertree-Powered Gardens By the Bay Opens to Public (Photos)
One-hundred-hectacre waterfront reclamation project spans 101 hectares, provides 'showcase' of sustainable practices and world's plants.
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Rio+C40: Is the Cities Approach to Tackling Climate Change a Viable Alternative to the Global Process?
C40 works as a network to connect and share best practices, in a take or leave approach. Is this pragmatism what we need in front of a global process that's increasingly disappointing?
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Mayors Gloat About Cities' Sustainable Development Progress, Criticize Global Process at Rio+20
New York City mayor and C40 Chair Michael Bloomberg’s words were firm and self congratulatory, but that didn’t make them any less true: Cities seem indeed to be ahead of the global process.
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Quote of the Day: David Frum on Cities
The conservative columnist suggests 3 seeds for an economic boom, and gets at least one right.
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Technology and Smart Phones Are Changing Cities, and The Densest Cities Benefit The Most
Many people thought the internet might mean the end of cities, but it turns out that the opposite is true.
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Closed Park Prompts Green Occupation Of Beirut
Activists are taking over 12 different locations in the Lebanese capital with grass, picnickers, cyclists, kite-flyers, and kids to demand the reopening of the city's largest green space.
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What Causes "Zombie Infrastructure"? Depends Who You Ask
Republican Candidate in Michigan blames too much federal regulation. Others might suggest too little.
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Who Wins When a New Park Seems Public But is Privately Owned?
It's great to have a beautiful new park, but when it's privately managed, who wins out?
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The Urbanization of Rio de Janeiro's Slums, a Model for Sustainable Development
On the road to provide a healthy and rich life to everyone on developing nations, Rio de Janeiro's program to urbanize its famous slums is testing interesting ideas that could be picked by other cities.
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Saudi Arabia Dumping Ground Becomes a Desert Oasis
A decade-long restoration project in Riyadh has cleaned up a polluted river valley and turned it into a vast public park.
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Every Complete Neighborhood Needs a Good Local Bar
They are like living rooms for the city, "where the unexpected and the mundane transcend and mingle"
