Infrastructure Can Be Beautiful
A Photo Essay of Gas Stations on Highways RESPECT. There was a day when design was respected, even for gas […]
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Why Co-Working Spaces Are Betting on the Suburbs
From the New York Times Start-ups are betting that the pandemic has spawned a new kind of worker who wants
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Poundbury Reconsidered and Prince Charles’ Ten Urban Design Principles.
How things change: just as the Prince’s ideas on organic food and the environment have gone mainstream (homeopathy less so),
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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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The Five Priority Actions in the Climate Adaptation Action Plan
From the US EPA The 2021 EPA Climate Adaptation Action Plan contains five agency-wide priority actions and measures to evaluate
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“Contentment Is Hard Work” by Carol Tavris
From the New York Times: Years ago I came upon a melancholy fact: As the popularity of television increased in
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“Site Analysis: A Contextual Approach to Sustainable Land Planning and Site Design” by James A. LaGro Jr. Wiley
From Amazon, From the Back Cover The complete guide to site analysis—for better plans and better projects Context-sensitive site planning
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The City Beautiful Movement by William H. Wilson
From CT.org…Like many movements and theories, they are forced into an all or nothing mode; often rejected because “all” is
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The Bloomberg Carbon Clock for October
The monthly values reflect the cyclical or seasonal changes in an inexorably upward secular trend. Check out the graph of
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EPA Strategic Plan
The detailed programs for each of the five Priority Actions in The Climate Adaptation Action Plan and description of the