sustainability – The Urbanist Dispatch

When Rebuilding a Town is a Vital Option

Natalia Fernández

November 8, 2014

If swamps could speak, their words would transport us to a 1950s rural Spain where it was decided that hundreds of villages would be evacuated in order to implement a “National Hydrographic Plan” that included ...

A Collaboration Across the Nation – The Documentary

John Cruz

August 8, 2014

Videos

A Collaboration Across the Nation - The Documentary http://vimeo.com/60905729 Documentary about new sustainability pushes from Williamson, West Virginia...

Human-scaled street life on one of Bangkok's side-streets (sois).Photo courtesy of Mark Wiens at migrationology.com

Making the Case for Bangkok’s Labyrinthine Streets

Will Leimenstoll

June 2, 2014

Community and Neighborhoods, Transportation

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Bangkok shares many similarities with its fellow Asian mega-cities; including snarling traffic, explosive growth, tasty street food and a multiplicity of cultures. However, Bangkok’s canal-inspired street layou...

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 ...

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...

Planning for disaster in the wake of Hurricane Sandy

Melissa Cameron

December 17, 2013

Sustainability

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Natural disasters have the tendency to churn up new words in the media, changing the vocabulary of the people affected by them. These words seem to fluctuate over time; coming and going with the ebb and flow of...

A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America

John Cruz

November 13, 2013

Videos

Urbanist Vishaan Chakrabarti has written a new book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America where he argues that density in urban, suburban, and rural areas leads to greater prosperity and a more...

Free Parking. Photo by speedtree on Flickr

Free Parking Fallacies

John Cruz

October 14, 2013

Infographics

There's been a lot of buzz lately about parking. Fueled in part by Donald Shoup's acclaimed The High Cost of Free Parking, many people have been taking a look at how ridiculous the parking situation actually is...

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