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While rummaging through the municipal recycling bin the other day, I happened to come across an old textbook from 1991: Contemporary Urban Planning, Second Edition. Remembering that reusing is one notch better than recycling, I grabbed it and skimmed through some of the chapters. Chock full of photos of gleaming skyscraper (Read More)
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Thank you Marilyn at Importance of Place for this digging up this quote. "But how is a taste in this beautiful art to be formed in our countrymen, unless we avail ourselves of every occasion when public buildings are to be erected, of presenting to them models for their study and imitation? . . . . the comfort of laying ou (Read More)
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Promoting your blog is perhaps the most difficult part of blogging. After spending hours writing a great post and putting links and images in it you push the publish button and wait… but nothing happens! Your post is live on the web and no one is clamoring to read it! You can’t even get a comment!That’s why today I am goin (Read More)
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Americans know a lot about car and airplane manufacturers–but very few are familiar with the train making industry and it’s biggest players. That may change over the coming years, if the US gets serious about improving and expanding passenger rail service and the $180 billion global rail industry continues to boom. For the (Read More)
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The Squares of Savannah are a Great American Public SpaceThe American Planning Association has released this year's Great Places in America awards. This is a wonderful program, now in its third year, that recognizes the practice and preservation of good urbanism in a positive way. (Sort of the other side of the James Howard (Read More)
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In honor of International Walk to School Day, we're going to look at a post from Minnesota's Twin Cities about what you might call Wouldn't It Be Great If You Could Walk Your Kid to Preschool Day. Streetsblog Network member Net Density makes the excellent point that for parents of preschool-age children, having child care (Read More)
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David Owen, whom I referenced a few weeks ago, opened up a major can of worms with a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal: "How Traffic Jams Help the Environment." As the title suggests, he argues that congestion compels drivers to shift to alternative modes, and therefor there is no reason to attempt to alleviate it. Ra (Read More)
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Sometime last year this website attracted the attention of several members of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, an organization sponsored by the Prince of Wales Foundation in order to support and renew traditions of construction. While this organization does great work to preserv (Read More)
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http://www.BirthrightIsrael.comDon't let texting get in the way of communicating. What's your New Year's High Resolution? Happy Rosh Hashanah from Taglit-Birthright Israel! Starring Birthright Monologue actors Ilya Khodosh and Jessica Asch, and guest appearances by Dara Lehon and Charles Mensh.Video by http://JewishRobot (Read More)
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I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.BirthrightIsrael.com
Don't let texting get in the way of communicating. What's your New Year's High Resolution? Happy Rosh Hashanah from Taglit-Birthright Israel! Starring Birthright Monologue actors Ilya Khodosh and Jessica Asch, and guest appearances by Dara Lehon and Charles Men (Read More)
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