An organization contracted by the City of Montreal to study the effects of converting some street parking spaces to bicycle lanes revealed a surprising result, and helped make the case for the conversion. Read How Montreal built a bike lane […]
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The fascinating remains of Rochester’s subway
Not many people know that Rochester, New York was the smallest American city to ever have a subway system. The system fizzled and died in the 1950s as the private automobile took over American life, but the relics and ruins […]
continue readingOnly in New York: Hudson Yards neighborhood to rise atop rai…
The Atlantic Cities features the coming Hudson Yards development in New York City–an entire neighborhood to be created atop an active rail yard. This amazing project will result in 26 acres of development and 17 million square feet of buildings. […]
continue readingLong Island foundation: innovative parking can revive downto…
The Long Island-based Rauch Foundation has unveiled designs submitted in response to its “ParkingPLUS Design Challenge,” initiated to “encourage a public discussion about parking structures in suburban downtowns and how they could be reimagined to better address downtown needs.” See […]
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Newburgh Community Land Bank off and running
Vacant and abandoned properties spread a host of problems throughout their communities–plummeting property values, blight, crime. But historically, communities across New York have been frustrated by legislative, logistical, and fiscal limits to what they can do to address these properties […]
continue readingErie County makes first Smart Growth Fund grant
The Village of Lancaster in Erie County is the recipient of the first grant from the County’s new competitive Smart Growth Fund, created to “employ Smart Growth principles to enhance village and hamlet centers, connect employment corridors with new neighborhoods, […]
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Utica City Hall to get urban planning studio
The City of Utica, in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County, will be establishing a Rust 2 Green urban planning studio in city hall. The studio will be staffed by two planners who will focus on bringing smart […]
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Three Upstate roads make “Freeways Without Futures” list
The Congress for New Urbanism has released its 2014 “Freeways Without Futures” list–part of its Highways to Boulevards initiative–and three Upstate roads are ranked in their top ten. These roads made CNU’s list because they are especially destructive and distressing […]
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State’s highest court to hear fracking appeal
New York State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, agreed to hear an appeal filed by a landowner and a natural gas extraction company that challenges lower court’s upholding of municipal bans on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the […]
continue readingState makes $2.025 million in grants and loans to STAMP, a r…
The Empire State Development Corporation has approved $2.025 million in grants and loans to support development of an industrial “mega site” in rural Genesee County. This funding will help the Science Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Project (STAMP) to purchase the […]
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