Urban Planning 101 – Walkability
You've probably never heard of Collingwood, Ontario. It's a smaller municipality on the north shores of Ontario, Northwest of Toronto. They have a YouTube channel where their planning department takes a look at...
Clean The City, of Visual Pollution
An article from Good highlights the astonishing law that Sao Paulo, Brazil passed back in 2006 that aimed to clean up the city. That is, of visual pollution. The Clean City Law was a bold move to take down an...
Community Growth and Crisis Challenge
Here's an interesting little documentary from 1959 warning people about the dangers of suburban sprawl. And who produced it? The National Association of Home Builders. An interesting prophecy to say the least.
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One man’s trash is another man’s….Home? Or Park Perhaps!
In case you haven't heard, they do things a little differently out west. They always have. But the latest developments in Berkeley are even more interesting than one would think. Berkeley resident Gregory Kloeh...
Block Mother
I've been following DetroitBigfDeal's stream on vimeo lately and there's some interesting stuff on there. This latest video, even only a few minutes long, is a story about how as planners, we must never lose si...
Detroit: A city on the move
Gotta love old videos about your city. This one is a view I discovered a few months ago talking about Detroit moving forward, it was a commercial for an unsuccessful Olympic games bid shot in 1965.The video is ...
Maps that are Urban Planning works of art
I came across this great video on rchitectur.com today and wanted to share it. Jerry Gretzinger blogs over at his website "Jerry's Maps" and there's a host of amazing maps that will make any planner or map gee...