Cycling for Sustainable Cities
Edited by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher, The MIT Press, 2021. “Cycling is the most sustainable means of urban travel, […]
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Fairhope, Alabama, A Quintessential Character Town
The City of Fairhope began as a dream in the minds of a group of populist reformers who were seeking
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“Superforecasting” by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
The Art and Science of Prediction The theory, simply put, is that an organized collection of well-informed people can predict
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10 Female Urban Planners that deserve limelight
Urban Planning is a gender dominant profession. The presence of male gender prevails in the statistics that clearly show it
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Elevated Chicago
City of Chicago’s first-ever Equitable Transit-Oriented Development policy plan. Elevated Chicago is a partnership of organizations committed to transforming the
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“Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation”
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler From Amazon….“Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more
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Sustainable Urbanism
The confluence of sustainabilty and urbanism offers a rich framework for planning, designing, building and managing small cities and towns.
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“Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character” by Charles R. Wolfe
Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic–a truly unique–urban place, that blends global and local, old and new.
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URBAN PARKS: Programming Areas and Facilities.
The Vision of an urban park. Urban parks are places of significant size and location that offer respite to city
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Urban Sociology: A Human Ecological Perspective by William A. Schwab
Importance. The social realm of sustainability is the most neglected by urban and city planners. Sociology is the profession to