Quiz: What Would Jane Jacobs Think of Your Neighborhood?
“What would Jane Jacobs think?” has been a question in urban planning and urbanist circles for years. That’s no surprise—after reading her work, it’s impossible to walk around a city…
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How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at cities
Saskia Sassen When I first encountered this doyenne of urban activism, she offered one of the sharpest critiques I’d ever heard. Jane Jacobs was relentless, and stood up to anyone…
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Was Jane Jacobs right?
Lloyd Alter (@lloydalter) CC BY 2.0 Jane Jacobs/ Wikipedia May 4 would have been Jane Jacobs’ 100th birthday. We look at her impact. In Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs took on…
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The “Future of Suburbia,” according to MIT
The Center for Advanced Urbanism’s new research initiative is long overdue but doesn’t yet strike the right note. By AMANDA KOLSON HURLEY Other ArchitectureOffset House by Otherothers At trendy urban coffee…
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Call for Papers Issued for Trees, People and the Built Environment 3
A call for papers has been issued for a major triennial international urban trees research conference. Trees People and the Built Environment 3 (TPBE 3) will take place on 5-6 April 2017,…
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Abstracts or expressions of interest – 21st century urban design / built environment on the subject of loneliness and/or isolation
I am seeking creative, provocative, informed, scholarly chapters pertaining to 21st century urban design / built environment on the subject of loneliness and/or isolation. The book seeks to capture a broad range…
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Call for Papers of Special Issue on From urban sprawl to compact green cities – indicators for multi-scale and multi-dimensional analysis
Elsevier would like to call your attention about the Special Issue (SI) in ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS Journal (ELSEVIER) Elsevier are currently preparing entitled: “From urban sprawl to compact green cities indicators for multi-scale and multi-dimensional analysis”.…
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VALE – Urban Design at QUT
Australia’s first Urban Design Master’s program is dead. QUT launched Australia’s first Urban Design program in 1987 and due to not exceeding 30 enrolments for this year the program was…
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RGS-IBG 2016 Annual International Conference, London, Tuesday 30 August to Friday 2 September.
RGS-IBG 2016 Annual International Conference, London, Tuesday 30 August to Friday 2 September. Sponsors: Participatory Geographies Research Group (PyGyRG). Convenors: Cara Courage, University of Brighton and Anita McKeown, SMARTlab, University College Dublin.…
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The Complete Business Case for Converting Street Parking Into Bike Lanes
An annotated, chart-filled review of 12 studies from around the world. ERIC JAFFE @e_jaffe San Francisco is moving forward with a plan to add protected bike lanes on Polk Street, one of…
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