Sustainability – The Urbanist Dispatch

Sustainable Urbanism: For a Greener Future

January 21, 2015

Over the last century or so, technology has evolved at a rapid pace, but this ‘progress’ has come at a heavy price. This price is now being paid by Mother Nature, thanks to humanity’s quest for the so-called ‘d...

but wait, there’s more! 10 huge projects clevelanders are eagerly anticipating

Erin O'Brien

September 28, 2014

Economic Development, Sustainability

To keen followers, Cleveland's renaissance has been years in the making. But lately, it seems, the entire nation is beginning to follow along as well. And why shouldn't they be? A new energy is crackling all ac...

Lake Park Lagoon along Lincoln Memorial Dr. in Milwaukee, WI. Photo by @cjschmit on Flickr.

Who needs Portlandia, when you’ve got … Milwaukee?

Richard Manning

August 15, 2014

Featured, Sustainability

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is known for taking prickly offense at the term “Rust Belt.” Nonetheless, the belt fits. The old-line manufacturing cities of the upper Midwest preceded the rest of the nation in col...

Close up of freshly built comb. Photo by Ironbee Collective on Flickr.

What’s the Buzz? How Honeybees Help Shape Urban Farming

Rachael Gilliland

August 11, 2014

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, Sustainability

As consumers, we don’t always know where our food sources come from, or what helps supply it. As of late, the plight of the honeybee has lead to an influx of interest in what is happening in the bee world. To c...

Perfect Park Potential: The Case for Liberty Plaza, Part 2

Natalie Burg

June 26, 2014

Sustainability

What makes for a great public space? Last week, we explored the idea that Liberty Plaza, while undoubtedly a problematic space today, deserves just as much — if not more — consideration as a place with incredib...

From Smart Growth America’s Measuring Sprawl 2014 report.

The High Cost of San Antonio’s North-South Water Divide

Robert Rivard

June 5, 2014

Sustainability

It was unwelcome news but certainly no surprise when Smart Growth America released its Measuring Sprawl 2014 study Wednesday and listed San Antonio among the nation’s worst, ranking it 179th on a list of 196 la...

Phoenix Arizona Skyline. Photo by @alanenglish on Flickr.

Transforming the World’s Least Sustainable City

Darek Gondor

May 26, 2014

Policy, Sustainability

Like it or not, the city is becoming the lifestyle model for most of humanity. And you may be forgiven if your first image is the condo-residing, transit-commuting fashionable type who is always two electronic ...

Moran Power Plant, Burlington, VT. Photo by brownl3 on Flickr.

This is the grand plan to restore Burlington’s waterfront

John Cruz

March 31, 2014

Economic Development, Sustainability

Sitting alongside Lake Champlain, The Moran Municipal Power Plant in Burlington, Vt. is a relic of another time. The power plant spent its life turning coal into energy for the growing city and was even the mai...

The Recycler’s Dilemma

Melissa Cameron

January 23, 2014

Sustainability

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We are at the forefront of environmental planning. Cities and towns alike have more information and technology available than ever before to green the spaces in which residents live. We have seen fantastic brea...

Cheonggyecheon, Seoul South Korea. Photo by alexbarlow on Flickr.

Not all Green Spaces are Created Equal: A Look at the Successes of Cheonggyecheon, South Korea

Ben Bissell

January 22, 2014

Featured, Sustainability

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In 2000, the aspiring mayor of Seoul set out to complete an audacious task: destroy an elevated highway used by almost 170,000 drivers a day and revitalize the faltering stream it had cemented shut for over six...