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Form, Function, Cultural Memory: Recalling the Nature of Cities 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Too often, when we construct our human nests and lace our habitat with roads and sewers and all the paraphernalia of infrastructure we forget history’s lessons and no longer follow well-worn paths mad...
Welcome to the Age of the Anti-Mall ... Maybe 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Anti-malls are the new malls, or so says Washingtonian magazine, in a fun compendium of “The Best of Washington: 62 Reasons to Love Our City”. Even the suburbs are figuring out that walkable retail, n...
Street Life Growing in Cape Town 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
What’s the best way to get people to contribute to society rather than just their own needs? You could appeal to their sense of justice, but that doesn’t seem to work for most of us, or we’d be able t...
Unique Form-Based Code Sets Petaluma Above The Rest 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Take a stroll through downtown Petaluma, and you will see why it is different from every other city in Sonoma County. Petaluma’s core remains flush with the Petaluma River, contains a mixed-use develo...
Designing the Urban Soundscape 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
City planners have often many innovative solutions for how to create a ’good urban milieu’. However, these ideas are mainly focused on accommodating visual aesthetics with necessary practical matters ...
Why Place Matters When it Comes to Your Income 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Thanks to new groundbreaking research, we have a more detailed picture of income mobility across the U.S. Previous findings highlighted the importance of education, family structure and social capital...
Urban Cemeteries: Death and the City 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
As we go about our daily life in the city, death is probably the last thing on our minds. No one want to contemplate his or her own mortality while riding the bus to work or getting a coffee. Yet even...
Rare Earth Elements and the Environment 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Appropriate and efficient use of a range of greener products is one important aspect of more sustainable city living. Consider: using certain types of rechargeable, lower toxicity batteries; using ele...
Urban Transit: How to Handle Mumbai's Busy Streets 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
In the last four decades, only 900 km of roads have been added to Mumbai, while car traffic increased by a whopping 1,175%. The steep rise in vehicle traffic points to a major shift: more people are c...
Urban Renewal: Paint Your Way to Safer Streets 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
If you have your finger on the pulse of guerrilla urban improvements, you have probably already heard of community-led efforts to paint intersections – a beautiful way to reclaim what has traditionall...
