Tag: Cities - Page 55

Most of our readers are probably familiar by now with the latest worldwide trend in city building - the ecocity. Lately it almost seems as

A group of 16 Mexican NGOs put together a green prototype home as part of an eco-exhibit at the World Social Forum, which concluded Sunday. While not a complete house (it was missing a roof), the prototype home, set up on Mexico City's Zocalo, or

"Kenneth Fry is the president of Scenic America, and organization that works to preserve and enhance the visual character of America's communities. The visual pollution they try to address can be found almost anywhere, including places like Beltsville,

Changing the world and people's attitudes is a group effort; the more people working together for a common cause, the more effective it will be. At this joyous time of the year, Treehugger would like to recognise and salute the dedication and hard

Coincident with our coverage of Enermax, we find an article by Kevin Surace on how "New Approaches to Quiet Buildings Can Help Address Climate Change." He is not a disinterested observer, but CEO of Serious Materials, the startup that is looking to

Richard Florida wrote in the Globe and Mail (and I can't link because of their stupid fence) about the possible economic engine that could be Toronto, Buffalo and Rochester. Tor-Buff-Chester is bigger than the San Francisco-Silicon Valley mega-region,

Richard Florida quotes Wendy Waters in "All About Cities" noting that City planners and economic development specialists are spending increasing amounts of time trying to make their cities attractive to younger, educated workers and the companies that

Based around the simple concept that cities incubate new businesses, connect people, ideas, money and markets while their ports and airports connect us to the world, a non-profit group called CEO's for Cities seeks to help augment and revive cities

In many European cities, public fountains are important gathering places. In North America, we have private waterparks and our city's public spaces lack such gracious amenities.

It appears that timber rattlesnakes are homebodies, and when subdivisions move in, they

Coincidentally, just after writing about Land Use and Climate Change, I happened to surf over to Carectomy, to see that "a newly published research project published by the Urban Land Institute points out, improving vehicle efficiency alone won't

Trucks laden with Fiji water may not be so welcome in Chicago; according to USA Today, "Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has endorsed a proposal to add a 10-cent tax to each bottle, which would bring the city about $21 million a year.

Quoting our post on slow cites: "While the United States is a more fast-paced society, there are a number of examples that you can point to that indicate an openness for the idea of slowness. The number of farmers markets have increased dramatically and

In a slide show by BusinessWeek, America's most toxic cities are placed front and center. Contaminated sites are plagued by calamities-in-the-making such as man-made chemicals seeping into the soil, rupturing underground petroleum-storage tanks,

In North America our planners are obsessed with separating the cars from the pedestrians, the commercial from the residential; there is so much space wasted and so much less chance for creative interaction. Robert Oullette says "While that approach

A new study by the Urban Land Institute called "Growing Cooler: Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change" confirms what many TreeHuggers already knew: compact development -- mixing housing and

In the last housing and construction downturn, if an architect asked you a question, you answered "big mac and fries." This time the answer may well be "gallium indium phosphide, with a germanium topping." It appears that all kinds of engineers,

Cities support so many activities and ideas, and have so many places to explore. An example of a group using the city to its fullest is The Toronto Psychogeography Society, "a loose collection of relentless flâneurs, explorers and walkers. The word