(December 7, 2011) A Colgate University senior makes a strong case for transforming Utica through urban gardens and farms. Read the editorial in the Utica Observer-Dispatch And check our blog from earlier this year on Project Green, Rochester’s urban greening […]
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Walmart ignores its greatest effect on climate change
(December 5, 2011) Big Box Swindle author Stacy Mitchell explains how Walmart’s land use practices have directly and indirectly driven up global warming gases to levels that dwarf its stated emissions. Her analysis includes not only the physical and material aspects of […]
continue readingAre pedestrian malls smart growth?
(December 5, 2011) The City of Buffalo is now planning to return cars to its Main Street pedestrian mall; Sacramento is planning to decommission its pedestrian-only plaza. The walking-only mall in Denver and the one encompassing several Main Street blocks […]
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Will fuel-efficient cars fuel sprawl?
(November 23, 2011) A North Carolina planner posits the possibility that more fuel efficient cars will actually enable more sprawl unless we make location efficient, compact development a priority. Read the blog at Cyburbia […]
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Will widened Tappan Zee Bridge spawn more sprawl?
(November 11, 2011) An engineer based in Airmont warns that a widened Tappan Zee Bridge will induce even more traffic and sprawling development. […]
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Buffalo planner dispels myths about his city, explains brigh…
(November 11, 2011) Chris Hawley is an urban planner in Buffalo, and got the chance recently to extol the virtues and debunk the myths of his city, and his city’s future, in Next American City. Citing the city’s solid and […]
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Syracuse Creekwalk winning many users and admirers
(November 7, 2011) Creekwalk in Syracuse, which roughly follows Onondaga Creek from downtown to Onondaga Lake, has a growing number of users and admirers, including a Post-Standard writer who eloquently shares why the trail is great, why it is important, […]
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Improved Tappan Zee Bridge: Powerful sprawl-inducer?
A downstate transit blogger posits that an improved or expanded Tappan Zee Bridge–if it only makes it easier for cars to cross the Hudson–is likely to be a enormous sprawl-enabler in counties such as Rockland and Orange. An earlier plan […]
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A transit manufacturing renaissance for New York?
(October 17, 2011) New York State once was a hub of transit manufacturing–of subway and rail cars, buses, streetcars and trolleys, and more. While some transit manufacturing still occurs in New York State–for example, Alstom in Hornell (Southern Tier) just […]
continue readingNew Urbanists: more sprawl surely won’t solve sprawl-c…
Citing over-development of infrastructure and suburban housing, several leading urban and regional planning thinkers and researchers lay the blame for our economic crisis on sixty years of inefficient suburban development, which they liken to a Ponzi scheme. The perceived profits […]
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