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Infra Week: 11-25-2013
Friday, November 29th, 2013Places in the Making: How Placemaking Builds Places and Communities
Monday, October 28th, 2013MIT DEPARTMENT OF URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING
Since the 1960s, placemaking has grown up. What began as a reaction against auto-centric planning and bad public spaces has expanded to include broader concerns about healthy living, social justice, community capacity-building, economic revitalization, childhood development, and a host of other issues facing residents, workers, and visitors in towns and cities large and small. Today, placemaking ranges from the grassroots, one-day tactical urbanism of Park(ing) Day to a developer’s deliberate and decades- long transformation of a Denver neighborhood around the organizing principle of art.
Centennial Hills, NV: Arts in Transit
Friday, October 11th, 2013The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) commissioned international artist Patrick Sullivan to create a custom, outdoor sculpture for its Centennial Hills Transit Center and Park & Ride. With more than 30 years of stone sculpting experience, Sullivan’s portfolio includes an array of pieces showcased in Germany, British Columbia and the United States among […]
View this complete post...Kinston, NC: Global TransPark
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013The North Carolina Global TransPark is a 2,500 acre, multi-modal industrial park offering unparalleled access to air, rail, highways and North Carolina’s two international ports. The GTP boasts a pro-business climate aimed at growing the aerospace, logistics, manufacturing, emergency services, defense contracting and supporting industries. –NCDOTcommunications on YouTube.
View this complete post...San Diego, CA: City Hall Runaround Leaves Community Gardens High and Dry
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013At a small community garden on the corner of Ridgeview Drive and Fairmont Avenue in City Heights, there are a few plots filled with straggling end-of-summer vegetables. There are tomatoes, pole beans and squash, but the lot is noticeably bare. Out of the 19 garden beds, only six have anything growing in them. That’s because […]
View this complete post...Car Pollution is Architectural
Monday, September 9th, 2013Most people disagree with me about change in urban design — so don’t be surprised if you also think i’m an idiot.
-sgcollins on YouTube
California: Yosemite, It Never Lets You Down
Monday, August 26th, 2013Local legislators discuss the importance of Yosemite and why they supported Senate Joint Resolution, Senator Berryhill’s measure urging Congress to expand Yosemite’s borders.
View this complete post...Austin, TX: Back to the Future
Thursday, August 8th, 2013Reconnect Austin is a long-term urban design and economic development solution to a traffic problem. For more information, visit www.reconnectaustin.com –Reconnect Austin on YouTube.
View this complete post...What Kind of Bike Lanes Are Safest?
Friday, August 2nd, 2013Transportation Issues Daily The research seems pretty clear on what kind of bike lanes are safest, and bring out the most bicyclists: cycle tracks. But perhaps it is not clear enough: Hennepin County (Minnesota) is intent on building in-the-street,non-separated bicycle lanes instead of separated cycle tracks. David Maki was skeptical, solicited input from some experts, […]
View this complete post...Madison, WI: Arrested Development
Thursday, August 1st, 2013Arrested Development: High Density Development VS Quality of Life from Michael Kienitz on Vimeo. This video is about a proposed 3½ story, 29,000 SF mixed use apartment building on the corner of Knickerbocker and Monroe streets in Madison, WI.. The development includes a 21-car parking garage that enters and exits on Knickerbocker, a residential street […]
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