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	<description>A Contemporary Urban Pattern</description>
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		<title>New Urban Epicurean Enterprise</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/09/06/new-urban-epicurean-enterprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nested 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 coveted place for epicurean eating, it serves three sittings per evening to about 60 tables. The natural surroundings are charming with the changing seasons and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At home with the car</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/08/31/at-home-with-the-car/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The 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 for the car has been an irritation on the developers and planner’s minds for good reasons. It uses up valuable land; it adds to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supermodel Sirens on “Sanctuary” Island</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/08/30/supermodel-sirens-on-%e2%80%9csanctuary%e2%80%9d-island/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/08/30/supermodel-sirens-on-%e2%80%9csanctuary%e2%80%9d-island/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   In 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 schools curricula.  Instead, he grieved, schools are busy with obscure academic wanderings e.g. deconstructivism or other mind-numbing –isms. The rigour and depth of research, such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Fused Grid Neighbourhood in Construction</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/08/29/a-fused-grid-neighbourhood-in-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/08/29/a-fused-grid-neighbourhood-in-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Street Network Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cul-de-sac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patterns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[streets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A 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 walkability principles into practice.  Named Saddlestone, the new community uses the Fused Grid model.   http://www.genesisland.com/land/saddlestone/community-map.html  The Fused Grid model is a new way of arranging streets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neighbourhood fit up for retrofit</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/08/11/neighbourhood-fit-up-for-retrofit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/08/11/neighbourhood-fit-up-for-retrofit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Street Network Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Change 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 decisions at City Hall. As a family evolves it may need more rooms for children, a home office for a working parent or a suite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Being Urban</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/05/25/the-importance-of-being-urban/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/05/25/the-importance-of-being-urban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City 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, 1969 ). Large scale experiments are neither feasible nor possible, due to the involvement of humans and extended time periods. Accepting this limitation, we must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Please Nature and Delight Residents</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/05/04/how-to-please-nature-and-delight-residents/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/05/04/how-to-please-nature-and-delight-residents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fused Grid Applied]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["storm water"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[“new urbanism” “old urbanism” “emergent urbanism”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fused Grid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[messy-urbanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbourhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedestrian realm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permeable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street patterns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[walkable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Building a new neighbourhood always brings change to the natural landscape that it replaces. And the biggest change that goes unnoticed is what happens to the rainwater that falls on the neighbourhood site; unnoticed, that is, until it’s in the news, when a road gets washed out, for example. Other effects rarely make headlines because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The True Public Realm</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/04/16/the-true-public-realm/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/04/16/the-true-public-realm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[“new urbanism” “old urbanism” “emergent urbanism”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fused Grid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[main street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[messy-urbanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new urbanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedestrian realm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public realm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street patterns]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/?p=406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Same city(Montreal),  two streets and two strikingly different approaches to the public realm. Both streets are intensely public and encompass a range of uses but are predominantly gathering and socializing spaces. On the right, in the common, inherited grid, the public fucntion takes over the entire narrow sidewalk leaving no space for pedestrians. Shop patrons are exposed to two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Urbanist Cul-de-sac: an ideal match</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/03/26/new-urbanist-cul-de-sac-an-ideal-match/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/03/26/new-urbanist-cul-de-sac-an-ideal-match/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Street Network Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Urbanist, Walkable Cul-de-sac This 650-foot cul-de-sac has all the characteristics of an ideal New Urbanist street: compact, harmonious, well proportioned, on a grid, fully connected and walkable. Built in the 50s, it features large, two storey, well-crafted homes with one or two-storey porches, a must-have feature of a NU street. The houses are set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/03/21/beloved-and-abandoned-a-platting-named-portland/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2010/03/21/beloved-and-abandoned-a-platting-named-portland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland Grid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smart Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 4000-year history of the grid, American incarnations are relatively new, appearing first about 300 years ago, frequently as a simple, orthogonal and often square (such as Portland&#8217;s) &#8216;Hippodamian&#8217; grid, named after the planner of Miletus around 473 BC (Fig 1).   A session in the recent 2009 New Partners for Smart Growth conference focused [...]]]></description>
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