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Disparities in Park Quality and Pedestrian Streetscape Environments

Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
Disparities in Park Quality, Disparities in Pedestrian Streetscapes

Low‐income and minority populations suffer disproportionately high rates of chronic disease. Accordingly, national and international authorities have made the elimination of health disparities a priority. Many factors can contribute to health disparities, including disparities in the quality of neighborhood environments. For example, having a neighborhood park and pedestrian‐friendly streets may impact opportunities to engage in physical activity – a behavior that can reduce risk of chronic disease.

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NYC: Under the Elevated – Experimentation Before Implementation

Wednesday, August 24th, 2016

“Under the Elevated” is the first major urban initiative to propose a comprehensive approach in revitalizing New York City’s hundreds of miles of elevated infrastructure. We saw the need and potential to reimagine these often noisy, uninviting, and underutilized spaces beneath our city’s subway lines, highways, and bridges. The resulting study in partnership with the […]

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Colorado’s Transit, Biking & Walking Needs Over The Next 25 Years

Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Colorado Investment

Transit, walking and biking are critical components of a 21st century transportation system in Colorado but have been underfunded for decades. Without significant investments in transit, biking and pedestrian services and infrastructure, Colorado will not be able to meet the demands and challenges of our shifting demographics and growing population, and will miss out on the many benefits transit, walking and biking provide.

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2017 Culture of Health Prize: Call for Applications

Monday, August 22nd, 2016

The RWJF Culture of Health Prize celebrates communities that are making health a priority by creating powerful partnerships and commitments so that each of us, no matter who we are or where we live, can thrive. Is your community building a shared vision of good health, prosperity, and opportunity for all? If the answer is “yes,” apply for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize.

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The Gateway Project – Saving New York from “Transportation Armageddon”

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

New York and New Jersey are facing what Senator Charles Schumer called “Transportation Armageddon.” Luckily there’s a solution that will fix everything… but it’s going to take several years and billions of dollars just to get permission.

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Build Your Own NYC Subway

Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

How would you like to be in charge of re-designing one of the biggest, busiest subway systems in the world? The New York City subway currently serves nearly 5.7 million people each weekday (thats about 1.8 billion riders in 2015), and now it’s your turn to see if you can make the system work better.

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Mankato, MN: Now Introducing…Bike Lanes!

Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

Bicycling enthusiasts can enjoy bike lanes in the North Mankato and Mankato area. These lanes provide another transportation option that’s well-connected throughout the cities. Safety is important, so it’s good to know what bike lanes are and what each of the different bike lane markings mean.

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Why Goods Movement Matters: Strategies for Moving Goods in Metropolitan Areas

Monday, August 1st, 2016
RPA - Goods Movement

The efficient delivery of products is critical to the satisfaction of the customer, the success of individual businesses and the urban and global economies. Yet in order to reach the final destination, goods distributors face significant challenges across urban and metropolitan environments: congested city streets, regional highways and rail networks, and bottlenecked ports and airports. The distribution of goods also contributes to this congestion, increasing emissions and noise on the streets. In the U.S., trucks account of 18% of the cost of congestion although they only represent 7% of urban travel.

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Transit Trends Episode 5: City Planning – Where Did We Go Wrong?

Friday, July 29th, 2016

In this episode of Transit Trends, we discuss why the city planning of the past is the cause of our current transportation mess. We sit down with Gabe Klein, the former Director of the D.C. Department of Transportation and Commissioner of Transportation of Chicago to pick his brain on how we got here and what we can do next.

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Green Infrastructure Improves Communities

Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Through the Great Urban Parks Campaign, NRPA and APA are working to demonstrate the benefits of green infrastructure in urban communities. Using parks for green infrastructure is a creative and cost-effective alternative to gray infrastructure that allows nature to filter pollutants from rain water, reduce storm water issues and give communities access to more green space.

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