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Urban Index Fast facts about cities, climate change, and sustainability		12 May 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: climate, green building, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

How Smart Is Your City? An urban-dweller's pop quiz		12 May 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: green building, public lands, public transportation, Smartish Cities, special series, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

What's a Sustainable City, Anyway? Green-city ranking group SustainLane explains its methodology	James Elsen	12 May 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: green building, placemaking, public lands, public transportation, Smartish Cities, special series, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

Smart(ish) Cities A Grist special series on unexpected urban progress		12 May 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: green building, green living, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

This Is the Den, and the Bathroom Is Behind That Tree Stressed by housing slump, developers sell land to conservationists		09 May 2008	News
Posted at 9:31 AM on 09 May 2008 Looking for a bright side to the real-estate crunch? Look no further: Some developers, financially stressed by the housing slump, are selling land to folks who want to conserve it. It's a win-win situation: developers aren't stuck building expensive real estate that no one wants to buy, and conservation groups like the Trust for Public Land a ...
Topics: habitat protection, Nature Conservancy, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Tasty justice People's Grocery is rebuilding food connections in West Oakland	Erik Hoffner	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: California, environmental justice, food, health, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Better homes and gardens The NYT on urban farming	Tom Philpott	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, food, local food, placemaking, sustainable ag, urban planning (all these topics)

Cities	David Roberts	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ecological footprint, local politics, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Melbourne A modern city can be remade	David Roberts	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Australia, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Change now or change never The longer we wait to move away from gasoline, the more high gas prices will hurt	Ryan Avent	05 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, European Union, fuel efficiency, oil, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

The unbearable tightness of oil markets America is ill equipped to handle expensive oil	Ryan Avent	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: economy, energy, oil, placemaking, politics, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

Drawing on Experience Architect R.K. Stewart on building the future of sustainable design	Sarah van Schagen	25 Apr 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: art, climate, green building, interview, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Generate energy locally; recycle whenever possible A Pollan-esque energy objective in six words ... and then some	Sean Casten	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: electricity grid, energy, energy efficiency, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

City of Angles If you're building in L.A., you gotta build green		23 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:36 AM on 23 Apr 2008 Los Angeles has become the biggest U.S. city to pass green-building laws. Under the regulations announced Tuesday, new commercial and residential structures of more than 50,000 square feet will have to be LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The law also applies to major renovations. "We look toward the future through a greener lens," says Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, "a ...
Topics: green building, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Waiting for a techno miracle: not the fastest way to cut emissions Government-financed construction plus carbon pricing is the key	Jon Rynn	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: urban planning, placemaking, carbon tax, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, green jobs (all these topics)

Oil hysteria Let's rebuild our national rail network instead of repealing the gas tax	Jon Rynn	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, fossil fuels, oil, placemaking, politics, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

Room to Grow Big urban parks sprouting across the U.S.		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Four major cities are poised to create urban parks several times bigger than New York's iconic Central Park, itself a not-at-all-shabby 843 acres. In Orange County, Calif., a portion of a former air station will become a 1,347-acre park; in Memphis, a 4,500-acre former prison farm has been snatched from developers by a conservation easement; Atlanta is trying to add enough parkland to attach nearly every nei ...
Topics: green space, New York City, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Sidewalks are sexy! and other things I learned at Hahvahd	Katharine Wroth	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: green living, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Machiavelli meets the Big Apple Ten reasons NYC's congestion pricing plan went belly up	Charles Komanoff	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: legislation, New York, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

New York City's congestion pricing plan ...	David Roberts	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: legislation, New York, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Them's the Brakes Manhattan congestion-pricing plan kicks the bucket		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 07 Apr 2008 Hopes had run high that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious congestion-pricing plan for the Big Apple would move forward, but the measure has died a quiet death. Democratic members of the State Assembly, determining that the measure was overwhelmingly opposed, neglected to even bring it to the Assembly floor, instead shooting it down with a secret vote. The now-dead plan would have cha ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, legislation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Building green, one city at a time Eager municipalities hopping on board	Katharine Wroth	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: green building, legislation, local politics, placemaking, politics, urban planning (all these topics)

The forgotten solution Transit investment should and will be a part of the peak oil solution	Ryan Avent	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: energy, oil, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

Urban Decay Boston looks to generate electricity from indoor composting		26 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:07 PM on 26 Mar 2008 The city of Boston is looking to build an urban, indoor composting facility. Most cities, if they compost at all, transport food and yard waste in gas-guzzling trucks to dumps outside the city limits, where energy and methane from decomposing biomass get lost to the atmosphere. The first-of-its-kind proposed Boston facility would generate electricity from rotting leaves and fruit, enough to ...
Topics: Boston, energy, innovation, news, placemaking, urban planning, waste (all these topics)

The Pricing Is Right New York's new governor supports congestion pricing		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 24 Mar 2008 Brand-spankin'-new New York Gov. David Paterson has announced his support for a controversial congestion pricing plan. The proposal, put forward by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and supported by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, would charge $8 to drivers entering Manhattan during peak hours. Said Paterson in a written statement, "Congestion pricing addresses two urgent concerns of th ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change mitigation, New York, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

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