planning
No One Can Stop Leaking Oil
By Admin / On July 30th, 2013
Katie Valentine and Ryan Koronowski of ThinkProgress uncover what oil companies (and snow) have been keeping secret.
A Canadian oil company still hasn’t been able to stop a series leaks from underground wells at a tar sands operation in Cold Lake, Alberta. The first leak was reported on May 20, with three others following in the weeks after — making it at least 10 weeks that oil has been flowing unabated.
Reid Ewing on How Better Traffic Models Can Lead to More Mixed-Use Development
By Admin / On June 14th, 2013
Reid Ewing, author of the forthcoming book, Measuring Urban Design, talks to Angie Schmitt of Streetsblog.
Here’s another obscure but significant obstacle to building walkable places in America: the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ shoddy traffic generation models for mixed-use development.
The Compelling Promise of Urbanism Without Effort
By Charles R. Wolfe / On May 13th, 2013
As urban stakeholders -- residents, pundits, developers, associated professionals, and politicians -- we like to discuss and debate aspects of urbanism and how cities should change to meet new challenges. But when we talk about urbanism, I think we often forget the underlying dynamics that are as old as cities themselves. As a result, we favor fads over the indigenous underpinnings of urban settlement and personal observation of urban change.
#ForewordFriday: Without Effort Edition
By Jason Leppig / On May 3rd, 2013
This week's selection for #forewordFriday comes from Charles R. Wolfe's new E-ssential, Urbanism Without Effort.
#ForewordFriday: Good Urbanism Edition
By Admin / On March 8th, 2013
Planners and urban designers have reached a consensus about what constitutes "good urbanism;" however, there remains a yawning gap between this theory and reality. In this week's #forewordFriday selection, Nan Ellin's new book, Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places, provides a plan for bridging this gap.
Enjoy!
Island Press Staff Picks
By Admin, Jason Leppig / On September 19th, 2012
This week's pick is from the Managing Editor of CAKE, Livia Kent:
#ForewordFriday Planning as if People Matter
By Admin / On September 7th, 2012
The environmental justice movement is closely tied to urban planning and development. But, while planners and urban designers have made great strides in embracing the sustainability movement, social justice issues have not been getting the same attention. Of the three "e"s of sustainable planning—environment, economics, and equity—equity is the one most often left behind.
On My Dinner with Andrés
By [node:field_contributor] / On June 12th, 2012
Twenty years ago New Urbanism was launched as a big idea. And like other powerful ideas, it has mutated as it has metastasized and gotten weird in multiple ways. Like other assaults on orthodoxy, it has become an orthodoxy (or several).