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ASLA Creates Sustainability Guide

The American Society of Landscape Architects has released an extensive online guide to resources for sustainable urban development.

7 August 2009 - 5:00am

ASLA's The Dirt blog

Brainstorm: Who Are the Top Urban Thinkers?

Planetizen is creating a list of the most important people who have shaped urban places, and we want to know what you think. Vote on people nominated by the Planetizen community, or suggest your own. The polls close September 7.

6 August 2009 - 5:00am

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The Charter City of Guantánamo Bay?

Economist Paul Romer proposes the creation of new "charter cities", taking uninhabited areas and creating new innovative charters for cities that avoid the burden of national regulations. Guantánamo Bay is an ideal location, he says. (VIDEO)

5 August 2009 - 2:00pm

TED

Free Parking

At a digital security conference in Las Vegas, a presenter showed that newer "smart" parking meters can be hacked, giving the hacker free parking wherever they go.

5 August 2009 - 8:00am

Boing Boing

Oil Crunch Coming

Peak oil will happen at least 10 years earlier than most governments are expecting, and an oil crunch will occur in the next 5 years, says Dr Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency.

4 August 2009 - 7:00am

The Independent (UK)

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The Effects of the Background Noise of City Life

Urban sounds can have an effect on people -- both physically and mentally. This sonic tour through New York City examines how sounds affect urbanites.

3 August 2009 - 10:00am

Discover

'Disaster City' Trains Rescuers for Real-Life Catastrophes

Disasters happen. Being prepared is almost always the ideal, but rarely the reality. A disaster training facility in Texas is trying to change that.

3 August 2009 - 9:00am

Popular Science

Building for the Multicultural

Builder Fernando Pagés Ruiz discovered by accident that the multicultural groups in his community had special needs that weren't being met.

3 August 2009 - 5:00am

Cities Without Cars

This slideshow form Mother Nature Network shows seven globa cities that are completely free of cars.

2 August 2009 - 11:00am

Mother Nature Network

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Sewer Robot Frees Up Streets

The Urban Mole is a proposed package delivery robot that uses existing sewer tunnels to deliver packages underground, taking delivery trucks off of the streets.

31 July 2009 - 9:00am

Wired

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Visualizing and Analyzing Plans with CityCAD

Planning technology expert Charles A. Donley reviews a new piece of software that combines the worlds of Computer-Aided Design and Geographic Information Systems to help site planners visualize and analyze their plans.

30 July 2009 - 9:00am

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Simple Solutions and Complex Technology at the World Parking Symposium

The "parking puzzle" plagues cities all over the world, but it gets easier to solve when good ideas are shared. Andrea Broaddus and Michael Kodransky attended the recent World Parking Symposium and report back on some of the latest technologies and innovations.

27 July 2009 - 5:00am

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Rybczynski on the History of Airport Architecture

Witold Rybczynski provides an illustrated history of airport architecture on Slate [Slideshow].

24 July 2009 - 7:00am

Slate.com

Geoengineering the Problem of Climate Change

This piece from The Atlantic looks at the emerging concept of "geoengineering" -- a set ideas that seek solutions to climate change by manipulating the environment.

23 July 2009 - 8:00am

The Atlantic

Connecting the Museum With the Community

Museums are transitioning from niche cultural sites to community hubs, and expanding their engagement with their cities.

23 July 2009 - 5:00am

Christian Science Monitor

Wayfinding in the City

A review of The Wayfinding Handbook: Information Design for Public Places by David Gibson finds it rich with great ideas for designing new systems, but lacking in ideas for fixing old ones.

17 July 2009 - 8:00am

re:place Magazine

A Bus-Powering, Rider-Paying Bike Share System

A new city bike sharing design concept not only gives people access to bikes, but also provides power for the local bus system and even pays riders to do it.

16 July 2009 - 11:00am

The Christian Science Monitor