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A Fused Grid Milestone: Red Deer, AB planning guidelines
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No Commentshas been reached in the adoption of the Fused Grid model – embedding its principles in a municipal standards book. While the fused grid is being vigorously debated... -
Choosing a grid, or not
Posted on March 10, 2012 | No CommentsIn an earlier article we discussed Portland’s grid flaws, prominent among which was inefficiency of land use. We looked at Portland’s 200’ by 200’ block in the context of other... -
The rise of women’s role in society: impacts on housing and communities
Posted on January 29, 2012 | 1 CommentThe rise of women’s role in society: impacts on housing and communities Author: Luis Rodriguez The rise of women’s role in society will result in significant impacts on housing and... -
Healthy Travel Modes: Correlations, Causality and Caution
Posted on January 22, 2012 | 1 CommentHealth and wellbeing are affected by a host of factors acting together, separately or cumulatively. Picking one, such as the mode of travel, and assigning it a prime role using statistics can be misleading and can slant priorities for corrective measures. The article cautions about such a misaplication and calls for more research to determine the true weight of each factor. -
Can Money Grow on Trees?
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsWhen calculating the cost-effectiveness of any operation economists talk about externalities. Mostly they mean the costs or damages to others either downstream or in the future that are excluded from... -
Bumpy rides a thing of the past, again.
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsDoes a driver exist who actually likes speed bumps and humps? If not, what are these road skin inflammations doing at mid-block or at intersections? It seems ironic that... -
Green them and they will walk – How to get people on a healthy path
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsTo entice walking, streets must give priority to pedestrians either by limiting or by excluding traffic. Adding landscapig makes them even more alluring. -
A Street you can call your own
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsThere are two languages in currency that we use to talk about streets: one used by people who live on them and another favoured by transportation engineers. The first... -
Portland’s Portal of Opportunity – The Multimodal Grid
Posted on May 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn an earlier article about the Portland grid, we identified a number of its shortcomings and speculated that they may be the reason it has not been replicated; no other... -
European Urbanism: Lessons from a City without Suburbs
Posted on March 22, 2011 | No CommentsAthens has all the recommended incredients of Smart Growth and New Urbanism. It should be the an ideal prototype to understand and emulate. A closer look reveals that the application of the accepted design recipies deliver an upallatable outcome both for its residents and for the environment. What happened?