- Question & Answer with Peter Weingarten, studio director at Gensler design firm and former Treasurer of the US Green Building Council, about sustainable design in tall buildings and whether or not that is an oxymoron. Read part 1 and part 2.
- "It's time to update the definition of 'smart growth'"! Over at the Natural Resources Defense Council blog, the 10 principles of smart growth are outdated and need to be amended. I couldn't agree more! This is a great list of suggested additional foundation statements.
- Over at Embarq, there is some great collaboration happening about "Megacities on the Move: Scenarios for the Future of Sustainable Urban Mobility". Solutions to the future problems of our cities are being recommended and I especially like the four possible scenarios for the future of cities: Planned-opolis, Sprawl-ville, Renew-abad, and Communi-city. Found on TheCityFix.
Also over at TheCityFix, the future of sustainable transit is to "integrate, integrate, integrate!"
- Theft and vandalizing is apparently not turning out to be a problem for American bike sharing programs! If this was various cities' only reason for holding back, then why aren't there more cities looking into the program? Stick a GPS on 'em!
- The streetcar is coming back to downtown Atlanta! Great news for the city, I just hope that it is more than a tourist attraction...
- AND, the best article yet was written up in Eugene's local paper this past Sunday about my project doing downtown revitalization and the Main Street program in Springfield. The local paper's website sucks so here is a nearby city's news site which actually has a picture, but left out some of the original content... I wasn't interviewed, but that's alright, I get it enough. We've been getting a ton of positive press lately. ha
07 December 2010
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