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Punk Rock and the New Urbanism: Getting back to basics

We’re living in an era of new economic realities, and the relevance of the planning and development trades depends on their — our — ability to get back to the basics of urban growth and development.

A city known for vision loses its planning chief

Brent Toderian, who gave substance to Vancouver’s EcoDensity Initiative, is out as planning director of the Canadian city.

Is Phoenix's goose cooked? The metabolism of cities.

Review of The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities, by Austin Troy, Yale University Press, 2012, 384 pp., $28 hardcover

Posted by Robert Steuteville on 31 Jan 2012

A nudge towards walking saves a mountain of cash

Review of Intelligent Cities, edited by Susan C. Piedmont-Palladino, National Building Museum, 2011, 120 pp., $25 paperbound.

Posted by Robert Steuteville on 31 Jan 2012

A doctor's passion for healthy communities

Review of Designing Healthy Communities, by Richard J. Jackson with Stacy Sinclair, Jossey-Bass, 2011, 261 pp., $50 hardcover.

Posted by Robert Steuteville on 31 Jan 2012

Undoing a huge mistake — the Rochester Inner Loop boulevard proposal

The Inner Loop is a 2.75-mile-long freeway that put a noose around the downtown of Rochester, New York.

Posted by Robert Steuteville on 16 Jan 2012
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