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Archive for Urban Planning
- June 2008
- 6/18:
Carfree Cities Conference Kicks Off in Portland
- 6/12:
City Planning Commission Approves 400-Car Garage for Hell's Kitchen
- May 2008
- 5/30:
Hell's Parking Lot
- 5/12:
Historic Town Chooses to "Retain Its Charm" By Enabling Sprawl
- April 2008
- 4/29:
Sadik-Khan Introduces the New York City Model
- 4/28:
DOT Rolls Out "Sustainable Streets" Plan
- 4/15:
In the Heights: City Aims to Make 181st a Complete Street
- March 2008
- 3/13:
In Istanbul, a Burgeoning Livable Streets Movement
- January 2008
- 1/24:
"Carfree Cities" Conference Comes to Portland
- 1/22:
Masdar: Arabic for Chutzpah?
- 1/15:
Will the Tide Turn on City Parking Policy?
- 1/10:
Times Square: Too Many People, or Just Too Many Cars?
- 1/08:
Bronxites Pick Parking Over People
- December 2007
- 12/10:
Radiohead: A Rock Band With a Firm Grasp of Urban Planning
- 12/07:
Replace Penn Station Rats' Warren With a Pedestrian Boulevard
- 12/04:
Good Streets Include Streetcars
- 12/03:
CiclovĂa: A Moving Experience in Bogotá, Colombia
- November 2007
- 11/29:
Carrion Gets $30K Donation Following Yanks Walkway Deal
- 11/27:
Eliminate the Parking Requirement
- 11/19:
Alan Durning's "Year of Living Carlessly" and "Bicycle Neglect"
- 11/07:
Jan Gehl: Gridlocked Streets Are "Not a Law of Nature"
- October 2007
- 10/11:
In Platinum City Even the Munchkins Ride Bikes
- 10/10:
Kunstler: Parking Plans Are Based on "Faulty Assumptions"
- 10/03:
Yankees' Subsidy Deal Gets Stranger and Stranger
- September 2007
- 9/25:
DOT Asks, and Gets an Earful from West Siders
- 9/21:
Upper West Side Livable Streets Advocates: Mark Your Calendar
- 9/21:
Making the Case for Compact Development
- 9/18:
Seeing Myrtle Avenue With Fresh Eyes
- 9/13:
Does New York Need a 'New Moses'?
- 9/13:
A Gehl Dispatch From Down Under
- 9/13:
World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week
- 9/12:
DOT Launches Gehl Street Survey Project
- 9/07:
Last Day for High Bridge Survey
- 9/04:
Take the NYC Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey
- August 2007
- 8/24:
Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up
- 8/22:
Central Park 66th Street Transverse Is Unsafe
- 8/21:
Speak Up for an Accessible Car-Free High Bridge
- 8/20:
The Urban Transportation Report Card
- 8/17:
For Your Weekend Viewing Pleasure: Portland!
- 8/07:
Hello, Dolly!
- 8/06:
New Blog Focuses on Tearing Down the "Highway to Nowhere"
- July 2007
- 7/27:
Bike Parking on Steroids
- 7/19:
Aparkalypse Now in San Francisco
- June 2007
- 6/29:
"Triboro RX" Could Provide More Transit Opportunities
- 6/26:
Rediscovering the Romance of the Bicycle in Paris
- 6/20:
Q&A With Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan
- 6/19:
Jackson Heights: New Front in One-Way Battle
- 6/19:
Will the Revitalized High Bridge be Bike-Friendly?
- 6/05:
T.A.: City, State Parking Drive Would Torpedo Taxi Initiative
- 6/05:
Bloomberg Upbeat, Media Less So, Ahead of PlaNYC Hearings
- 6/04:
StreetFilms: Sadik-Khan Rides the Tour de Brooklyn
- 6/01:
City Wants 20,000 New Parking Spaces in Hell's Kitchen
- May 2007
- 5/25:
Happy Memorial Day Weekend
- 5/18:
CB6 Committee Unanimously Approves 9th St. Project
- 5/17:
Time to Expand DOT's Toolbox Beyond Signs and Signals?
- 5/17:
9th Street Road Diet Meeting Tonight
- 5/16:
Aug. '05 Flashback: 1,200 Slopers Demand a Safer 9th Street
- 5/11:
Double-Parking in a Bike Lane? There Isn't Even a Check Box.
- 5/11:
PlaNYC Quietly Introduces "Safe Routes to Transit"
- 5/10:
There Are Certain Facts That We've All Got to Face Up To
- 5/09:
Biofuels, Bus Lanes and Beer
- 5/07:
Choose Your Own Hells Kitchen
- 5/07:
StreetFilms: Touring Brooklyn's Future Waterfront Greenway
- 5/07:
They Cover the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Future Greenway
- 5/07:
Another Look at the WSJ Article on European Cycling
- 5/04:
DOT: One-Way Park Slope Proposal is Dead
- 5/02:
When Streets Are for People
- 5/01:
PlaNYC Team Releases Transportation Technical Report
- April 2007
- 4/30:
Five Small Steps to a More Effective, Progressive DOT
- 4/26:
Fun With Numbers (Or: The PlaNYC Index)
- 4/23:
How Green Is Our Mayor
- 4/21:
StreetFilm: Talking Transportation with Bob Kiley
- 4/20:
They Come to Bury the BQE, Not to Praise It
- 4/19:
Bruce Schaller Profiles a "City in Flux"
- 4/19:
Visions of a Grander Grand Army Plaza
- 4/17:
Bus Depots a Symptom of Environmental Injustice
- 4/13:
Find Yourself a City to Live In
- 4/12:
CB2 Committee Approves "Additional" Prince/Bleecker Routes
- 4/11:
Manhattan CB2 Approves DOT's Prince/Bleecker Bike Plan
- 4/09:
Pedestrian Safety: London Shows How NYC Can Do Better
- 4/09:
City Pitches in for Yankee Stadium Parking
- 4/06:
Park Slope Passes on Traffic-Calming, Ped Safety & Bike Lanes
- 4/06:
Primeggia's One-Way Safety Claims Are Based on 1970s Studies
- 4/05:
Tonight: Help DOT Build a River-to-River Bike Connection
- 4/04:
Study: Sidewalks Can't Handle Transit Traffic
- 4/03:
Pedestrian and Bike Improvements Coming to Grand Army Plaza
- 4/02:
Congestion Relief: It's About Your Health
- March 2007
- 3/29:
Vanderbilt Avenue: The Model for DOT's 9th Street Proposal?
- 3/29:
A Tale of Two DOT Plans
- 3/29:
Opposition Brewing to DOT's Proposal for 9th Street Bike Lanes
- 3/29:
A Community Workshop to Re-envision Grand Army Plaza
- 3/28:
An English Plan in New York
- 3/20:
StreetFilms: Interview with Parking Guru Donald Shoup
- 3/20:
Mayor Bloomberg at the Crossroads: Who Will Run DOT?
- 3/16:
Doctoroff Sets Stage for Something Bold, Creative & Expensive
- 3/16:
Coverage of Last Night's Park Slope Meeting
- 3/16:
DOT's Park Slope One-Way Presentation
- 3/14:
Why Is Saudi Arabia's Oil Production Down?
- 3/13:
DOT's Park Slope Proposal: Is this Atlantic Yards Planning?
- 3/13:
PlaNYC 2030 Project "Tearing Things Up" at City Hall
- 3/12:
Parking: If You Build it They Will Come... in Their Cars.
- 3/09:
Report from Atlanta: Don't Walk This Way
- 3/08:
The New York City Parking Boom
- 3/08:
Brooklyn to Bloomberg: Include Local Stakeholders in Planning
- 3/07:
DOT's Park Slope Plan Requires Community Board Support
- 3/05:
Why Is DOT Reorganizing Park Slope Traffic? Because.
- 3/05:
Commissioner Weinshall Agrees: Two-Way Streets Calm Traffic
- February 2007
- 2/28:
DOT's Plan for Park Slope Traffic "Improvements" Confirmed
- 2/26:
Bloomberg Admin Misses "Golden Opportunity" on Intro. 199
- 2/22:
Atlantic Yards Planner: "Space on Streets is Useless Space"
- 2/21:
The New Jane Jacobs vs. the New Robert Moses?
- 2/20:
Will "Atlantic Yards" Kill the JFK-Lower Manhattan Rail Link?
- 2/20:
PlanNYC 2030: What makes a Community Sustainable?
- 2/14:
The Power of Moses: Please Wield Responsibly
- 2/13:
Sustainable Transportation for NYC: How to Make it Happen
- 2/12:
The Seed of a Revolution in Red Hook
- 2/09:
StreetFilms: "A City Is a Means to a Way of Life"
- 2/09:
Congestion Tops Citizens' PlaNYC 2030 Concerns
- 2/06:
New York New Visions Tackles "Sustainable" New York Future
- 2/05:
The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide?
- 2/02:
StreetFilms: An Interview with Sam Schwartz
- January 2007
- 1/29:
New York City 2030. London Today.
- 1/23:
The Known Unknowns of New York City's Streets
- 1/23:
Teaching City Gov't to Count More Than Just Cars and Trucks
- 1/16:
Flushed Away
- 1/16:
PLANYC 2030 Community Leader Meetings
- 1/16:
Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change
- 1/10:
Making Hell's Kitchen Less Hellish
- 1/08:
A Tale of Two Cities' Parking Policies
- 1/05:
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Dubai
- December 2006
- 12/31:
Setting the Agenda on Pedestrian Safety
- 12/18:
Holiday Book Recommendations Open Thread
- 12/13:
Futurama 2030 Speech: News Round-Up
- 12/12:
Futurama 2030: Bloomberg Outlines Ambitious 10-Point Agenda
- 12/05:
File Under: No Wonder New York City is Falling Behind London
- November 2006
- 11/21:
A CRISPier Way to Build NYC's 200+ Miles of New Bike Lanes?
- 11/17:
Transit-Oriented Development in Jersey City
- 11/09:
Traffic: A Social Problem Not a Design Problem
- 11/08:
Buses and Atlantic Yards
- 11/08:
Connecting Urban Design and Public Health
- 11/03:
Transit-Oriented Development Forum
- 11/02:
London Calling. Are New York's Leaders Really Listening?
- October 2006
- 10/31:
Street Films Portland Week: Bicycle Boulevards
- 10/31:
T.O.D. in Brooklyn: Turning Parking Lots into Housing
- 10/23:
They Paved Prospect Heights and Put up a Parking Lot
- 10/17:
The Cost of Sprawl on Low-Income Families
- 10/12:
Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway: Important Meeting Tonight
- 10/11:
Planetizen Interview With Amanda Burden
- 10/10:
Important Manhattan Transportation Forum on Thursday
- September 2006
- 9/26:
The Queensboro Meat Grinder
- 9/21:
Bloomberg Sustainability Announcement
- 9/21:
Breaking: Bloomberg to Announce Big Sustainability Plan Today
- 9/14:
Streetsblog Interview: Ryan Russo
- August 2006
- 8/31:
Rally for a Livable Houston Street
- 8/25:
Rally for Houston Street Buffered Bike Lanes
- 8/24:
Street Film: The Transformation of Willoughby Street
- 8/16:
Sneak Preview of Bloomberg's 21st Century Urban Vision