Tag Archive for 'sprawl'
In Toronto today, a monster new grocery store is opening in an old hockey rink. Purists are appalled, but I am excited.
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Designed by Meridian 105, ’The Family Circle’ is a new concept for housing created to fit the lifestyle of the urban family. Planned for the perimeter of Denver, Colorado, the project aims to build an enriching environment for families who wish to enjoy the benefits of downtown living, but just can’t afford the rates seen in the heart of the city. Providing... weiterlesen...
Designed by Meridian 105, ’The Family Circle’ is a new concept for housing created to fit the lifestyle of the urban family. Planned for the perimeter of Denver, Colorado, the project aims to build an enriching environment for families who wish to enjoy the benefits of downtown living, but just can’t afford the rates seen in the heart of the city. Providing... weiterlesen...
Abu Dhabi’s Urban Planning Council recently unveiled their revitalization plan for a messy 1770 hectare sprawl between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The Shahama and Bahia Revitlization Plan is the result of a concerted collaboration between the Abu Dhabi Municipality, local residents, and prominent community members to develop a coastal upgrade that meets all four pillars of the Es... weiterlesen...
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Kaid Benfield makes the point that talking about infrastructure is like watching paint dry. He describes a "dinner conversation that won't happen often: "hey - c'mon over and we'll talk infrastructure costs!" So he tries to make the conversation more comprehensible by weiterlesen...
Images Courtesy of Better Block
TreeHugger spends a good deal of time bemoaning the arch-rivals of good urban design in America: suburban sprawl and cities that are designed around cars, not people.
Agreeing that things need to change, a Texas-based group called Better Block has been busy in the last two years transforming ordinary, car-dominated streets into what they c...Re... weiterlesen...
We talk a lot about the evils of sprawl here on TH -- it's inefficient, energy-intensive, promotes driving, makes you fatter, and so on and so forth. So perhaps you'd be interested to take a look at just how differently real estate developers of the 20th felt about sprawl in LA. These before...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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All images courtesy of Stephen Von Worley at DataPointed
If you thought we'd finally gotten over our weird national love affair with unsustainable sprawl, think again -- throughout the period of 2000-2010, many Americans were still migrating from urban areas to the suburbs. Stephen Von Worley, who runs the site Data Pointed, has used census data to make a series of maps that re... weiterlesen...
Kaid Benfield writes at NRDC Switchboard that Helsinki is building an underground city to avoid urban sprawl. CNN's Richard Quest, " whose effusive reporting style may be to infrastructure what Dick Vitale's is to basketball," explains in a short video tour.
It is pretty wild, including industry, a giant cold storage facility, swimming pools and a central heating and cooling s... weiterlesen...
From Sprawl Crawl,By GOOD and Atley Kasky
The USA Today headline states the obvious: City's design, transit system can ease gas costs, noting that "a recent study finds that people drive less in compact cities that have extensive transportation systems." And why is a six month old report news today? Gas prices; the more you drive, the more you pay.
But what isn't so obvious i... weiterlesen...
by Marc KristalThe 84-block trip south to Times Square is surprisingly speedy. But when I transfer to the 7 for the journey to Flushing–Main Street, its final stop, time slows. The train becomes elevated after entering Queens, rattling over a low-rise sprawl of dirt lots, gas stations, big-box stores, and midrise mid-century apartment blocks, and mile after mile of graffiti... weiterlesen...
Image credit TD Bank
I thought I was very careful and considered in my discussion of TD's Net Zero Energy bank branch. I described what good environmental corporate citizens they were and how happy I was as a customer. But I did point out that it was plopped in the middle of a sea of asphalt and that the whole exercise was equivalent to taking five cars off the road, far fewer ... weiterlesen...
Photo credit: Warren McLaren / inov8
A study released by the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) in late 2010 found that "Australia will be forced to rely on huge quantities of imported oil unless it radically overhauls its transport and urban policies" according to The Age newspaper who reported on the findings. They also quote Peter Newman of Curtin University, one of the s... weiterlesen...
Located at 550 feet from the ground, there is bungee jumping facilities with 3 cantilevered out springboard-like platforms.
Conventional theme parks are problematic. Designer Ju-Hyun Kim notes that " for decades, [they] have been the by-product of automobile-centered society and a catalyst for suburban sprawl and traffic congestion."
Kim asks: why not put them downtown, where... weiterlesen...
If It Can Happen in L.A., It Can Happen Anywhere
The city of Bogota has made the "Ciclovía" known around the world, and since then it has been spreading to other cities. The concept is simple: Close down some streets to cars and allow pedestrians and cyclists to take over. After years of preparation, Los Angeles has just had its own "CicLAvia" and by most accounts it was a res... weiterlesen...
Inhabitat's Ariel Schwartz headlines a post Tellecomuting, Online Shopping Increase Carbon Emissions, pointing to a Science Daily post that says "working from home can increase home energy use by as much as 30 per cent, and can lead to people moving further from the workplace, stretching urban sprawl and increasing pollution." Science Daily did not link to the study,but quoted ... weiterlesen...