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Melbourne City Planner Rob Adams: “Bigger Cities are Better Cities”

February 28, 2012

From the YouTube Description: As Director of Design & Urban Environment for the City of Melbourne with nearly 40 years experience as a practising architect and urban designer, Rob has produced a large numb...

Downtown Ann Arbor. Photo Courtesy of AnnArbor.com

Insights into a Lively Downtown

John Cruz

February 21, 2012

Videos

From the YouTube Description: What makes a downtown district appealing? Why do people go out of their way to walk down one side of the street and not the other? Using the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan as a case ...

One Way Street Sign. Photo courtesy of nicejenny83 on Flickr.

Are days numbered for one-way streets?

John Cruz

February 21, 2012

Culture, Transportation

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While for years many people have favored one way streets as a quick way to get in and out of town, they have come under recent fire as being ineffective and confusing, but new evidence shows that like roundabou...

Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell defends cities, Obama budget

John Cruz

February 19, 2012

Economic Development, News, Policy

Grand Rapids Mayor took to mlive.com yesterday morning with an article defending cities and the Obama budget. The former city commissioner and ordained minister's editorial list's off a healthy number of reason...

Metropolis II by Chris Burden

John Cruz

February 14, 2012

Videos

Great video I found on YouTube, the following is from the YouTube description A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden's stud...

5 Takeaways from “Defend Your Ride”

John Cruz

February 10, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

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Towards the end of last year I had the opportunity to produce a blog feature for CBS Detroit called Defend Your Ride (which is why there was a bit of a lull in posting for a while). The segment is being done in...

Ice Cream. Courtesy of infowidget on Flickr

The Horrors of Opening an Ice Cream Shop in SF – By the SF Planning Department

John Cruz

February 7, 2012

Videos

You have to respect planners that favor stripping down red tape and making new business easy. This video, produced by the San Francisco Planning Department, shows what a pain it can be for new businesses to ope...

Cracked Sidewalk. Image courtesy of jazart90 on Flickr.

Cash strapped Los Angeles may have to pay for new sidewalks. Will your city?

John Cruz

February 4, 2012

News, Policy

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Ever since president Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities act of 1990, we have seen countless entities in the private sector fall to lawsuits claiming that their facilities were discriminatory a...

Lewis Mumford on the city

John Cruz

January 31, 2012

Videos

From the Youtube Description: Before the end of 1961 the New York publishing company Harcourt, Brace and Co. had the first edition of Lewis Mumford's highly successful book The City In History ready for public...

How would YOU make cities better?

John Cruz

January 27, 2012

News

Cities are popular again. For the first time in ages, we are seeing numerous groups come forward and bring fourth the message "It's time to make our cities better". After all, the city 2.0 was the TexEx 2012 ...

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