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Street Network Evolution Archive
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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... -
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... -
New Urban Epicurean Enterprise
Posted on September 6, 2010 | No CommentsNested in the woods, L’ Ore du Bois sits at the edge of a village, a 20 minute drive from the nearest Metro urban centre of a million people. A... -
At home with the car
Posted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe old mews, now converted to coveted, quiet residential courts was one of planners’ answers to accommodating horse and carriage; what are our solutions for the “horseless carriage”? Space... -
Supermodel Sirens on “Sanctuary” Island
Posted on August 30, 2010 | 1 CommentIn a recent article “Can you see a pattern?”, Witold Rybczynski praised the genius of C. Alexander and deplored the fact his great work is absent from architecture and planning... -
A Fused Grid Neighbourhood in Construction
Posted on August 29, 2010 | 1 CommentA new Calgary neighbourhood shows the features of a good, Fused Grid neighbourhood In Calgary, Alberta work has begun on a new 64 hectare subdivision that will put leading edge urban planning... -
Neighbourhood fit up for retrofit
Posted on August 11, 2010 | 1 CommentChange is constant. Neighbourhoods, stable as they look at first, go through natural cycles of change that may be triggered by family makeup, income changes, ageing, technology, regulations or planning... -
The Importance of Being Urban
Posted on May 25, 2010 | No CommentsCity planning has yet to achieve the status of a theory, most likely because “the criterionfor the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability or testability.” (Popper,...