The greenhouse gases emitted by the production of concrete, called embodied carbon, are occasionally used as a green-NIMBY argument against building new things. A Berlin Green spokesperson coauthored a study opposing U-Bahn construction on the grounds that the concrete used in construction would raise emissions. More recently, I’ve seen American opponents of transit-oriented development in […]| Pedestrian Observations
The urbanism YouTube sphere is thriving — but who's getting the views?| usa.streetsblog.org
Hear leading designers, developers, politicians, play champions and officials from London and around the world discuss my new book Urban Playground at 2 public online panel events on 24 and 25 Feb. Continue reading →| Rethinking Childhood
News of a festive offer, and a sample of page spreads to whet your appetite. Continue reading →| Rethinking Childhood
Vjosa Isai, New York Times: Some of the most popular bike lanes were making Toronto’s notorious traffic worse, according to the provincial government. So Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, passed a law to rip out 14 miles of the lanes from three major streets that serve the core of the city. Toronto’s mayor, Olivia Chow, arrived […]| pxlnv.com
North North South is the Iranian American’s first photo book, published by Gost Books, showing a less glamorous side of the sprawling metropolis| 1854 Photography
Walkable cities aren't just safer. They're friendlier and more human.| OnlySky
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Becoming the biking advocate I am now began with Streetsblog Denver.| Streetsblog Denver
Part 5 in the series, Can Beauty Kill Germs? Trauma, Gratitude, and Memorialization; Attitude and Beauty in the Face of Extreme Odds. | TradArch
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Part 4 in the series, Can Beauty Kill Germs? Well-being, Immunology, and Traditional Building Materials.| TradArch
Part 3 in the series, Can Beauty Kill Germs? Can town and country design and architectural style have an impact on public health?| TradArch
Part 2 in the series: Can Beauty Kill Germs? Traditional Urbanism Helps Make Communities Resilient.| TradArch
Barbastella Bats| TradArch
Photo credit - View of Paris from the Institut du Monde Arabe, Jan Wyers| TradArch
Contributed by Michael Rouchell| TradArch
Janette Sadik-Khan (b. 1960) has done for the practical advancement of urbanism what Jane Jacobs has done for the theoretical. Since her appointment as commissioner of New York City’s Department of Transportation in 2007, she has championed a number of initiatives that, beyond transforming Gotham into a more livable and sustainable metropolis, have inspired cities around the world to undertake their own projects cultivating robust urban life. From converting car-space into people-space and ...| The Reconstructionists
Another film project takes me to Washington.| Vagabond Journey – Around The World Travel
Reprinted from The Western Tanager 89(4):1-3. A fact that has stuck with me from the research for the Los Angeles County Breeding Bird Atlas in the 1990s is that there was not a single neighborhood in the county that did not have at least ten breeding bird species. Residents can enjoy birds wherever they live. …| Travis Longcore
From Alphaville to Robocop, science fiction has the measure of smart cities, says Tim Maughan. In a recent article on the continuing civil unrest in Turkey, sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argues that the science fiction metaphors the media so frequently turn to are outdated. “Nineteen Eighty-Four had finally arrived, it was said - just off by 30 years or so. But this is the wrong way to understand what’s happening,” she argues. “Deep and pervasive surveillance is real. It is likely worse ...| Arcfinity
The writing is (almost) on the wall in Tim’s new story Ghost Hardware “Anika starts with broad brushstrokes. A swipe of her hand is enough to brush away the initial debris on the face of the billboard, the hastily scrawled felt-tip pen tags and random stickers, cartoon monkey faces and ironically pixelised icons, until the surface is clean, nothing interfering with the now pristine Volkswagen advert that fills the huge twenty-by-ten-inch space. She pauses for a second, not knowing where n...| Arcfinity
Earlier this week I found myself in Rome in the morning with about 20 minutes to spare. Walking around the neighborhood I was staying in (Trastevere), I came across an elderly nun walking along one of the bigger, and more crowded, streets of Rome. As I waited for her to go through a narrow passage … Continue reading →| Some Thoughts on a Mysterious Universe
Roughly every Tuesday after working with a trash pickup group in West Denver, I bike to the Taco Bell located on the 16th Street Mall. It's a rarity among Taco Bells in the metro area. While the rest of the Taco Bells that comprise Denver proper have some sort of drive thru, it| DenverUrbanism Blog
It's all over instagram, twitter, and even on CNBC, and it makes you think to yourself... is Miami having a moment, or is it just in my head? And more importantly, are we ready to handle it?| Miami Grid
City dwellers across the country are seeing the places they live and the things they took for granted upended, and may change their behavior, and the American City, as a result.| Miami Grid