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Why Urban Sustainability Matters
In the last decade, we’ve seen the planet warm 0.13°C, 73 hectares of forest give way to farmland, and sea levels rise 36.7 mm. In the next 10 years, these trends are expected to continue as world population grows by 900 million people. By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s populationis expected to live in cities. Fortunately, these cities are generally more energy-efficient than areas of…
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Cross Post: A case for the comprehensive bike network
Cross-Post: A case for the comprehensive bike network
Editor’s Note: The following article is by David Edmondson and was originally published on The Greater Marin, a blog on urban issues in Marin County, California.Â
A couple of weeks ago, commenters were largely negativeto the idea of protected bicycle lanes on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard for safety reasons and for the reason that the Corte Madera path already existed. But why should we build…
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MinuteEarth: How to Build a Better City Even though this video came out over a year ago, I just stumbled upon it now. It distills why dense cities are more sustainable than sprawling suburbs.
Reader Comment: Walk Scores
My colleague Bill Slawski (of SEO by the Sea fame) writes:
Your first line of this post had me thinking about walkability scores for homes and apartments, and I started wondering what you thought about those. They rank a number of cities on the basis of walkability here: https://www.walkscore.com/cities-and-neighborhoods/How well can that shell around an urban place be designed to be more than…
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That cookie cutter feel
That cookie cutter feel
While there are plenty of economic and cultural arguments for dense, walkable neighborhoods connected by public transit, there’s also the aesthetic argument: Suburban streets are boring, cookie cuttershells of a community. This argument was among the first against suburban development. Before New Urbanists had fully articulated the myriad reasons dense cities are preferable to car-dependent…
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What I learned about smart cities at the Washington Ideas Forum
What I learned about smart cities at the Washington Ideas Forum
A little personal news: I just got back from the Washington Ideas Forum, where I was invited to a dinner with some leading thinkers on smart cities. Much of the conversation went above my head, but I ended up leaving with a few takeaways. (Apologies if I mischaracterize people’s positions. All theses recollections are based on memory, since I didn’t record…
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Urban farming contributes to higher rents
Urban farming contributes to higher rents
The warm fuzzies of eating hyper-local don’t justify the poor land use.
Advocates of urban farming have a compelling pitch: Communities need food, so those communities should be growing it. The reduced distance between the farm and the table is said toreduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a source of healthy produce to areas of…
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Planning for teleworking
What happens when a sizeable portion of the workforce doesn’t need to commute every day?
Why do we build highways, transit networks, and communal infrastructure? To reliably get people where they need to go. And for most people, that means getting to work.
Although only about 4.6 percent of the workforceworks primarily from home (as my office does), that’s up…
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Tech won't solve all the problems of the city
Tech won’t solve all the problems of the city
Ride-sharing services like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar won’t dismantle public transit. If anything, they will replace taxis.
The tech world is prone to freakouts. In 2008, when Apple’s App store was announced, the media heralded the beginning of the App Economy. Hundreds of marketing directors stormed into IT departments screaming, “WE NEED AN APP NOW.” Now, every…
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Seven things Americans should be more afraid of than Ebola
Seven things Americans should be more afraid of than Ebola
Don’t panic: There are still plenty of things to be terrified of.
So it’s finally happened: Ebola has spread to the United States. The deadly virus has infected over 6,500 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization estimates that Ebola is responsible for over 3,000 deaths.
Unfortunately, for people hoping for the downfall of society as we know it,…
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NoVa's next step: Slowing traffic
NoVa’s next step: Slowing traffic
Northern Virginia is making the right investments in walkability with sidewalks, transit, bike lanes, and dense housing. But pedestrians will never feel safe sharing the street with two-ton hunks of steel moving at 60 mph.
It’s a great time to be a greater Washingtonian: Unlike many regions, local officials are taking smart growth seriously. The
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Shaming yuppies isn't going to stop gentrification
Shaming yuppies isn’t going to stop gentrification
Gentrification is caused by economic forces. To alleviate its harm, demand stronger affordable housing requirements, don’t blame the new neighbors.
Gentrification remains a touchy subject in liberal politics. Real estate investment in low-income neighborhoods leads to a wave of young, educated, mostly white, probably liberal professionals moving…
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Are regional differences still relevant?
Are regional differences still relevant?
Regional mobility has been on a steady decline for decades. There just aren’t any good reasons to move anymore.
I grew up in Marietta, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. Reasonably, I thought that Atlanta constituted an East Coast city. As an economic powerhouse and a dynamic city, I considered Atlanta to be at least on par with Washington, Boston, and Philadelphia.
When I…
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