We're starting a new feature where every Monday, we'll do a post on news or other blog posts that we found interesting from the past week.
Architecture Doesn't Hide Bad Planning in Dubai (Planetizen)
An article from the Chicago Tribute that discusses the magnificent buildings and creations in Dubai, but the lack of an urban connectivity.
Adobe Headquarters Installs 20 Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (Inhabitat)
"The electricity generated from the turbines will eventually power an electric vehicle charging station in the garage below"
Deep Walkability (WorldChanging)
"The true test of walkability I think is this: Can you spend a pleasant half hour walking or on transit and end up at a variety of great places? The quality of having a feast of options available when you walk out your front door is what I'm starting to think of as "deep walkability.""
Fed-Up Commuter Fixes Freeway Sign Himself (Planetizen)
Great recounting of a Los Angeles commuter/artist who became fed up with poor freeway signage, and designed, constructed, and installed changes to the sign himself.
It takes a community to sustain a small farm (Grist)
"as anyone who has ever raised grain or livestock can tell you, the farmer is not the only person in the chain of players from her farm to your fork. In addition to producers, your food chain includes processors, distributors or transporters, and retailers. In other words, to have a truly local food system, we also need local butchers, bakers and millers, local truck drivers, local grocers, and a community that supports them in all their efforts."
Vancouver Is Cascadia's Greenest City, Who Is Second? (The Tyee)Vancouver is announced as Cascadia's greenest city, but then the question for second place is: Seattle, or Portland? The writer notes that most people assume that Portland will take second places, but wants to dig into the individual issues deeper. No spoiler alert, but the city that takes second deserves it.
Popular posts from 2009
If you only started reading our blog recently, here are the top 10 most popular posts from last year that you may have missed:
- The case to abort LRT (in Vancouver) - a newspaper clipping saved from 1982 that talks about the new SkyTrain system coming to Vancouver, and why the government should "scrap" the system and go back to more conventional methods.
- Rethinking Highest and Best Use - discussion of cycles of urban decline, the decay of neighborhoods, and how urban agriculture can help.
- Uptown, meet your old neighbor, South Lake Union - 3 projects that are changing these two neighborhoods; Mercer Street, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Alaskan Way Viaduct (SR99) Bored Tunnel)
- New Meaning to Eating Local - Why low income neighborhoods suffer from higher levels of obesity
- How Green is your Transit System? - Architects designing transit systems sustainably have few guidelines to follow today.
- Conscious Consumers -- one staff members goal to reduce her impact on the environment (after watching "No Impact Man")
- Less Carbon, More Footprints - a discussion of walking in cities and a review of the Walk21 conference
- Vancouver Streetcar: We've Missed You - The history of the streetcar and the possibilities of reintroducing it to Vancouver
- The Salvation of our Environment Lies at the Feet of the Poor - A discussion about giving the poor full rights over the illegal properties they live on (discussion based on ideas of Paul Hawken)
- EcoDistricts 101 - the What, Why and Hows of EcoDistricts
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