Urban design – July 20
Bike, meet the City. City, this is the Bike
Toward walkability – and happiness
Kunstler on Saratoga Springs; handicap access; personal transit & green buildings
The unraveling of the suburban fringe
Urban Design
Renewables & efficiency – July 11
Congress must pass renewable energy tax incentives
Swords into plowshares: Lockheed Martin’s work in efficiency sector (video and transcript
Jeremy Legget: A low carbon diet
‘Extreme Makeover’ family, NTUA dispute power credits
Ken Bossong at SEC on July 31, 2008 Congressional Green Expo
Housing & urban design – July 10
Putting down roots in the city
Environment, Attitudes, and Behavior
Foreclosures’ financial strains take toll on kids
Housing & urban design – July 8
With gas over $4, cities explore whether it’s smart to be dense
Will gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs?
Suburbia’s not dead yet
Transport – July 4
TIME: 10 things you can like about $4 gas
So we can’t afford to drive. But here’s the upside
Fuel prices cut NYC congestion
Fuel prices prompt Japanese to reconsider overseas travel
U.S. catching up on planning for bicycles
Housing & urban design – July 2
Canada: Today’s suburbs, tomorrow’s slums?
Rob Hopkins Film Review: Garbage Warrior
Elephant in the Drop-Off Zone
Review: Crash Course: Preparing for Peak Oil by Zachary Nowak
We need to be prepared for the worst when it comes to peak oil, insists Zachary Nowak.
Housing & urban design – June 28
Fuel prices shift math for life in far suburbs
Four years of gains in home prices wiped out
Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes is as good as they say
Living life in a travel trailer
Peak oil interviews – June 27
Bruce Robinson (ASPO-Australia) on ABC urges governments to prepare for PO
City planner Richard Balfour (founder of the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive)
Jeffrey J. Brown, oil exploration geoscientist
Anadarko Petroleum CEO James Hackett
Transport – June 27
Future of air travel – part 2
Private jets targeted as symbols of inequality
Brunswick to shut boat plants, cut jobs
Kurt Cobb: Move people, not metal
Hydrogen fuel cell technology, and hydrogen car kits
Housing & urban design – June 23
Daniel Lerch: PO challenges for local governments
How NYC’s congestion pricing plan crashed
Speech by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter inspires city planners
Kunstler on NPR
Housing & urban design – June 20
Gas prices latest worry for L.A. real estate market
Sydney homes stuck on road to nowhere
The cost of free parking
