urban planning
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No vacancy: Empty lots are full of promise
Vacant lots are the scourge of cities around the world, but they offer acres of unfulfilled potential for urban renewal.
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How cities can get carbon down to zero
Seattle looks at an ambitious scenario involving changes in travel modes, more energy-efficient buildings, and shifts to alternative energy sources.
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Seeing cities as the environmental solution, not the problem
The best way to save wilderness is through strong, compact, beautiful communities that are more urban and do not encroach on places of natural value.
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The Atlanta BeltLine: The country’s most ambitious smart growth project
The Atlanta BeltLine shows some progress and much remaining potential.
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The end of Borders and the importance of 'third places' in the city
The liquidation of Borders bookstores in cities raises the question of how to preserve the social value of spaces that are now prime real estate.
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Jane Jacobs on neighborhoods, placemaking, and active living [VIDEO]
The celebrated urban planner's ideas are still highly relevant to today's thinking about communities and sustainability.
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Greening a city … and pushing other colors out
A development plan in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood exposes the challenges of making communities sustainable without destroying their social fabric.
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Why do cities drive us crazy?
Studies have repeatedly shown that rates of mental illness are higher in cities. We still don't know exactly why, but neuroscience is on the job.
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Repairing our broken cities by transforming infrastructure
Can landscape architecture fix the blight created by outdated and destructive transportation infrastructure?