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- JS Online: Intelligent design for a great city
Great cities don’t just happen. They require planning, forethought and an insistence on good design.
Buildings like the Milwaukee Art Museum and the new Harley Davidson Museum are benchmarks for architectural excellence, but every bit of our city is important — every street, every park, every building.Read more @ the SOURCE: JS Online: Intelligent design for […]
- Pro skateboarder to attend park party - Farmington Daily Times
Skateboarders and roller bladers are invited to join Chad Knight at the opening of Farmington’s improved Brookside Park Skateboard Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 23.
Roger Drayer, landscape architect for the city of Farmington Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, which will host the special celebration.
SOURCE: Farmington Daily Times – Pro skateboarder to attend […]
- Revitalize urban core to boost walkability - The Tennessean
Walkable and bikable neighborhoods are becoming more important to Nashvillians. While we’ve made progress — recently ranking 39th in the nation for walkability — we need to reduce our dependence on cars and enjoy this city as pedestrians.
Read more @ the SOUCE: Revitalize urban core to boost walkability | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean.
- Rethinking Mass. Ave. - The Boston Globe
“How do you reconstruct a major, urban artery notorious for its traffic congestion and safety issues, but do so in a way that pleases not only neighborhood residents but supports the street’s many users - cars, pedestrians, bicyclists, and buses?”
Read more of this great article @ The Boston Globe 0 Rethinking Mass. Ave. - .
- Reclaiming the Yonkers waterfront for city’s residents | lohud.com | The Journal News
The Yonkers Community Development Agency has proposed a revised Master Plan for the Alexander Street corridor that incorporates the input, recommendations and concerns received during the recent environmental review process.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Reclaiming the Yonkers waterfront for city’s residents | lohud.com | The Journal News.
- Pamela Anderson building eco-friendly hotel in Abu Dhabi-The Economic Times
Former “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson is building an eco-friendly hotel in Abu Dhabi.Anderson fell in love with the city when she went there recently for a charity trip with the Make A Wish Foundation, reports contactmusic.com. The royal family there asked her to become a hotelier.
SOURCE: Pamela Anderson building eco-friendly hotel in Abu Dhabi- […]
- Green roof quashed due to extra cost
Asheville city has quashed the idea of a green roof as the council moved this week to install a new plastic roof on the Asheville Civic Center. The green roof idea was dropped as the $1.5million extra cost over a traditional roof. The extra cost was due to the existing truss structure having to be modified […]
- Madison hires Collaborative for Central Park
The Capital Times reports that “3” Design Collaborative has been hired to design proposed Central. “3” is a joint effort from Schreiber/Anderson Associates, JJR and Ken Saiki Design – all from Madison.
Read more @ The Capital Times
- California high-speed rail builders should learn French
Michael Mahoney of SFGate.com looks at how California can learn from the French.
Most developed countries have high-speed rail systems, and some have had them for many years, yet in California - which is bigger than many countries - we are still only designing such a system. One wonders why we can’t do this faster……..Read more […]
- City Will Explore Broad Bike-Sharing Plan - NYTimes.com
The city took a tentative step this week toward fulfilling the dream of a certain kind of urban idealist, saying that it will explore the possibility of creating a bike-sharing program that could make hundreds or even thousands of bicycles available for public use.
“This is a really big deal,” said Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for […]
