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Jan. 30, 2018 / Gordon Price

"The Daily Miracle" and the Decline of the New York Subway

Stephen Wilkinson sends along “this snazzy little piece on the NYC subway” from the New York Times.  For a documentary…
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Jan. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Don't Give Up on Mass Transit~Driverless Cars Equal Driverless Traffic Jams

The Economist offers an interesting look at traffic congestion and solutions in the North American context. While on this continent traffic…
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Jan. 22, 2018 / Gordon Price

Precedent for Vancouver? NYC Congestion Charging

From the New York Times: The plan … would create a congestion zone stretching from 60th Street south to the…
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Jan. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File~ Veronica Moss, Auto Lobbyist

From StreetsBlog comes this cameo from  Saturday Night Live actress Kate McKinnon depicting Auto Lobbyist Veronica Moss. As StreetsBlog observes:…
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Jan. 15, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

When Cities Say No to Fossil Fuel Investment

Imagine if a city like New York City decided to get rid of  five billion US dollars of fossil fuel…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / Gordon Price

Now is the time for congestion charging

From the NY Times: The average vehicle speed in Midtown today is just 4.7 miles an hour. That’s 28 percent…
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Jan. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

New York City installing 1,500 Bollards to protect Pedestrians

New York City will be installing 1,500 bollards on city streets as reported by the New York Times. While these bollards have…
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Dec. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Job Jar~Gehl Institute Seeks Interns in New York City

Jan Gehl is one of the founding voices about designing cities around people, and creating safe comfortable cities from the…
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Dec. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Colourful Stairway to Health In NYC

We all know them-those anonymous grey stairs that are just about everywhere. At the north side of Vancouver City Hall.…
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Dec. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Rebooting NYC's "Boulevard of Death"

With thanks to Stan Hohnholz~From New York City comes this transformational story about Queens Boulevard,  a street where an appalling…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

New York City Releases Flood Resiliency Guidelines for City Parks

With increasingly large rain events and Hurricane Sandy, New York City has responded to climate change and threats to river…
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Nov. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

New York as it might have been

This could have replaced Grand Central Station: From the New York Times: As pressure to use the air rights above…
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Aug. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Noises Off at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Sandy James Images Via NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver is this Fast Company article on the Secret Life of Parks. Diana Budd…
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Jul. 29, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis

Michael Greenberg’s lengthy article in the New York Review of Books is available (maybe just briefly) without the paywall. A…

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