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A Look At What Could Be Sacramento’s Tallest Building
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SACRAMENTO (CBS 13) – New pictures show plans for what would become Sacramento’s tallest building. A gleaming glass and aluminum structure just …
Vox
U.S. Politics
The best and worst cities in America for public transportation, according to an urban planner
Vox - Aditi Shrikant
Urban planner Christof Spieler tells us what cities are doing right and wrong. US public transportation is notoriously underdeveloped compared to most other wealthy countries. In fact, according to a study,
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Health
Kate Orff: How Can Oysters Revive New York City's Waterways?
NPR - NPR/TED Staff
Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Circular. About Kate Orff's TED Talk Oysters filter water, their shells form protective reefs and habitats, and regenerate into more oyster shells. Kate Orff uses to
Encinitas commissioners deny Beacon's Beach staircase permit request
sandiegouniontribune.com - Barbara Henry
The latest, controversial plan to build a public staircase down the bluff to Beacon's Beach was rejected by a divided city Planning Commission …
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The Other Place: Surreal MC Escher-Inspired Hotel Interior in China
weburbanist.com - Article by SA Rogers, filed under Boutique & Art Hotels in the Travel category
A maze of staircases leads absolutely nowhere within a series of new hotel rooms at ‘The Other Place’ in China, nodding to artist MC Escher’s famous …
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Manhattan
City Council Sues City Over Two Bridges Towers Approval
Patch - Caroline Spivack
The City Council and Borough President Gale Brewer followed through on their pledge to sue the city Friday. LOWER EAST SIDE, NY — Two days after the …
Manhattan
A towering mistake: The City Council is taking completely legal housing developments to court
nydailynews.com - By Daily News Editorial Board
Four very tall towers blueprinted for Manhattan's Lower East Side riverfront have area residents up in arms, unswayed by promises of new elevators at …
American Cities
Market Urbanism MUsings December 7th 2018 - Market Urbanism
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1. Recently at Market Urbanism: Two Cheers for PHIMBY by Michael Lewyn One alternative to market urbanism that has received a decent amount of press …
Manhattan
City Council Files Lawsuit Against 'Irrational' Approval Of LES Skyscrapers
gothamist.com - by Jake Offenhartz in News onDec 7, 2018 2:54 pm
(Courtesy of Handel Architects) Local elected officials have filed a lawsuit to prevent a trio of skyscrapers from rising in the Lower East Side, …
Manhattan
Controversial Two Bridges towers get city approval despite community ambivalence
6sqft.com - Michelle Cohen
Rendering courtesy of Handel Architects.The City Planning Commission gave the green light Wednesday to a controversial application filed by four …
Bicycle Theft Victim Wants To Help Others Get Bikes
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DENVER (CBS4)– A young woman, on a mission to help people find affordable housing by riding her bicycle, is looking for her bike after it was stolen. …
Curbed
Skyscrapers
Two Bridges skyscrapers get City Planning approval
Curbed - Amy Plitt
Three new buildings have cleared a major hurdle on their path to rising Five months after beginning a public review process, the developers of a trio of skyscrapers on the Lower East Side have cleared
New York Post
Opinion
NYC has a mayor who doesn’t even show up for work
New York Post - By Post Editorial Board
If this keeps up, Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t even be able to get into City Hall without having to show some ID. As The New York Times reported …
Crain's New York Business
New York City
New York City approves trio of contested towers in Manhattan's Two Bridges
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The city gave the green light Wednesday to a trio of large apartment towers planned for the Two Bridges neighborhood in Manhattan. The move is …
Los Angeles
Senior Affordable Housing Planned for Vacant Lot at Pico & Crenshaw
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A long-vacant lot at the intersection of Pico and Crenshaw Boulevards may be developed with senior housing, according to the most recent agenda of …
Patch
Manhattan
Two Bridges Towers Approved By City Planning Commission
Patch - Caroline Spivack
"Essentially our hands are tied legally," one commissioner said who voted for the minor modification that will create 2,700 new units. LOWER EAST …
Proposal for mixed-used development in Little Rock's Heights neighborhood sent back to designers
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A proposal for a mixed-used development designed to engage the "very vibrant neighborhood" along Kavanaugh Boulevard in Pulaski Heights is going back …
Los Angeles
People Behind the Plans: Nina Idemudia, AICP from American Planning Association
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Listen to American Planning Association episodes free, on demand. During her upbringing in Detroit, Nina Idemudia, AICP, thought a lot about how the …
College Station
Chinatown's College Station Development Heads to City Planning Commission
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Next week, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission is scheduled to take up consideration of College Station, a proposed mixed-use complex which …
Business (South Africa)
Durban’s Vision 2040 seeks to narrow gap between rich and poor
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Durban has unveiled a document, called Vision 2040, in which the city outlines its plans to “unlock its economic potential” by using its unique …
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China
Revealing The Naked Truth Of China’s Real Estate Slowdown
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Warren Buffett has famously told Berkshire Hathaway investors: "You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out." Buffett's market …
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Taxes
Aging Japan: Neighboring suburbs face divergent futures as one grays, one grows
Reuters Canada - By Elaine Lies
SAKURA/INZAI, Japan (Reuters) - Katsuya Kodama's wife died two years ago, and the 77-year-old keeps her ashes on a Buddhist altar in their suburban Tokyo home. "I talk to her morning and night, tell her
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San Francisco
Minimum parking requirements on their way out in SF
sfexaminer.com - By Joshua Sabatini on December 4, 2018 3:09 pm
San Francisco voted Tuesday to become the first major city in the country to eliminate minimum parking requirements for all kinds of development, a …
World Bank
"Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities" Out Today
marketurbanism.com
Alain Bertaud’s long awaited book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, is out today. Bertaud is a senior research scholar at the NYU …
Curbed
Snøhetta unveils new, ‘preservation-first’ design for 550 Madison revamp
Curbed - Amy Plitt
The architecture firm has retooled its renovation of Philip Johnson’s postmodern landmark When Snøhetta and the Olayan Group announced last fall that they would revamp the Philip Johnson-described skyscraper
News (China)
China Focus: China advocates "embroidery Kungfu" in city planning - Xinhua
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BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- With more highrises and plants popping up on the city's landscape due to the speed of economic development, China has …
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Appoints Senior Transportation Policy Advisor to Support Transportation Vision
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MayorKeisha Lance Bottoms announced the adoption of the Atlanta Transportation Plan (ATP), a once-in-a-generation transportation blueprint to move …
Urban Design
Episode 8 : Cities, Local Planning, and Politics by Urban Design Room - Listen to music
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Eye Tracking
Why do Beautiful Things Make us Happy - And Why Does Modernism Make us Sad?
archdaily.com - by Vasundhra Aggarwal
A recent exhibition at the MAK Vienna - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, is showcasing the works of Sagmeister & Walsh, a …
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San Francisco
Tesla’s ‘Autopilot Function’ Does NOT Mean You Should Drive Drunk
observer.com - Sissi Cao
Early in the morning last Friday, Alexander Samek, the 45-year-old city planning commissioner of Los Altos, Calif., felt as if he might have had a …