Tag: Urban policy

Five Shareable Solutions to the Foreclosure Crisis

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Last year, banks foreclosed on almost three million homes. Five million more homeowners now owe more than their houses are worth.

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Can We Design Cities for Happiness?

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Happiness itself is a commons to which everyone should have equal access.

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How to Create a Bike Corridor

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When I began exploring how bike route signage could be redesigned to increase its effectiveness for Los Angeles, I quickly discovered that a test case was in order.

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Manhattan Foodprint

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"What would it take to grow all the food needed for all Manhattanites – on Manhattan Island?" This video drives home the ecological impact of our current food production and consumption patterns – but then goes beyo

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The Next Decade's Top Shareable Trends

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Over at Worldchanging.com, Warren Karlenzig proposes ten big trends in sustainability.

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How to Design Cities to Counter Racism

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In this nine-minute TED video, Nate Silver (primary author of the blog FiveThirtyEight) explores racial attitudes in the 2008 elections.

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Sane in the City

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Can a city's planning and design promote positive mental health?

New research has documented that pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods can be particularly important for maintaining good mental health, especially in the elderly.

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2010: Crash or Comeback for Cities?

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The year 2010 may be remembered as a turning point in many American cities, towns, and suburbs.

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Portrait of a Shareable Street in Progress

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Market Street is San Francisco's main thoroughfare. In some ways, it's evolved as a classic example of a non-shareable street, one dominated by motorists, which fractures community and hurts our health.

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No Island is an Island

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San Franciscans tend to view the artificial Treasure Island as a bump on the bridge to the East Bay: the 450-acres have been virtually abandoned since the Navy shut down its base in 19

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