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SandStone Road by Thomas Kosbau & Andrew Wetzler » Yanko Design
Asphalt has been used for the last 80 years. It greatly contributes to the urban heat island effect, reaching peak temperatures of 48–67°C. At current consumption levels, approximately 28,000,000 barrels of crude oil were required to create South Korea’s 86,990 … Continue reading
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Tagged Asphalt, Goddard Space Flight Center, Gulf of Mexico, NASA, Sandstone, South Korea, United States, Urban heat island
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Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia | Video on TED.com. Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving … Continue reading
Laying the track for high-speed rail
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the second round of recipients selected to receive funding for intercity rail projects under the administration’s High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program on October 28, 2010. These projects will bring us one step closer to realizing … Continue reading
Creating Roads From Sand and Bacteria Instead of Oil
Improving America’s infrastructure has been a major priority for the Obama Administration, with a lot of money going into repairing the country’s roads and bridges. The problem is that currently most roads are constructed from asphalt, a material made from … Continue reading
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Tagged Asphalt, Fossil fuel, Inhabitat, Road, Roman roads, sand, United States
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CityGrid: Large Cities | Smarter Cities
Seatle, WA San Francisco, CA Portland, OR Oakland, CA San Jose, CA Austin, TX Scaramento, CA Boston, MA Denver, CO Chicago, IL San Diego, CA New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Dallas, TX Columbus, OH via CityGrid: Large Cities | Smarter … Continue reading
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Tagged city, CityGrid, Columbus Ohio, Los Angeles, New York City, rank, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose California, Sustainability, sustainable, United States
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SustainLane’s 2008 US City Sustainability Rankings
2008 US City Sustainability Rankings Cities are listed by their 2008 Rankings order. Numbers in parentheses ( ) denote 2006 Rankings. Portland, OR (1) San Francisco, CA (2) Seattle, WA (3) Chicago, IL (4) New York, NY (6) Boston, MA … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, California, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, San Francisco, Sustainability, SustainLane, United States
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486 – “A Really Greater New York”
America wasn’t immune to the fad. In 1911, Dr T. Kennard Thomson proposed to expand New York into its adjacent waters for a grand total of 50 square miles. Thomson was neither a lightweight nor a crackpot. As a consulting … Continue reading
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Tagged Caisson (engineering), Engineer, Metro Areas, New York, New York City, Popular Science, United States
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The Map Room: U.S. College Degrees by County
“Americans are better educated now than ever, but the distribution of people with college degrees is growing increasingly unequal,” write Roberto Gallardo and Bill Bishop in the Daily Yonder. “And the clustering of people with higher education is creating greater … Continue reading
Decade of the Telecommute
The rise in telecommuting is the unmistakable message of the just released 2009 American Community Survey data. The technical term is working at home, however the strong growth in this market is likely driven by telecommuting, as people use information … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Communication, Home Office, New York, Small Business, Telecommuting, United States, Work
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Food Truck
When I saw the post of ‘Food Trucks and Public Space,’ it’s only happening in LA. But, recent article by Edward L. Glaeser, ‘Free the food truck‘ plus related post, it’s now in everywhere. Boston, Chicago, LA… Mobile food distribution … Continue reading
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Tagged bento, Chicago, distribution, food, Food truck, Japan, park, regulation, Seatle, street, system, Trucks, United States
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Cities: Size Does Not Matter Much Anymore
Ultimately, we need to change how we think about cities and their economic growth. Contrary to strategies that seek to ‘grow’ cities by building (or rebuilding) their tax bases, cities do not necessarily need more people or even more companies. … Continue reading
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Tagged connectivity, Economic growth, growth, size, tax, United States
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Toward a Political Economy of Religion?
Over the last few decades, a fasci- nating field of social scientific inquiry has developed that applies economic reasoning to the study of religion. Economists and sociologists have used a rational choice approach to explain many questions in a field … Continue reading