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Green Shelves. 

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Understanding cities in a “much more holistic, more comprehensive way”

I hope it does! 

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What Can a 'Science of Cities' Offer Planners?

Research across a range of fields is beginning to offer useful new guidance for planning policy and practice—and pointing the way to more effective "bottom-up" strategies. The urbanist Jane Jacobs was famous for her withering 1961 criticism of modern urban planning: it was, she said, a "pseudoscience" that was "almost neurotic in its obsession to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success." Since then, by some accounts, planners and urban designers have not

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Urban agriculture projects are sprouting in cities across the US. A new film looks at their growing success. 

#puntastic

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Tower of David

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Destabilizing Urban Planning

How can the contemporary concepts in ecology studies—adaptability, resiliency, and flexibility—advance urban planning practices?

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Vietnamese house with trees growing on its rooftops »

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passive

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Moving from “muddling through” “to adaptive muddling” and developing the tools for a just transformation in the face of climate change. Why we need a new approach to fast tracking adaptation.

Human beings have always experimented to adapt. When our ancestors migrated from savannahs to...

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Group Project: Measuring the Urban Heat Island Effect and its Relationship to NDVI in the D.C./Baltimore Region

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Group Project: Urban Sprawl and Habitat Loss in Massachusetts 1976, "before"

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Group Project: Urban Sprawl and Habitat Loss in Massachusetts 2009, "after"