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		<title>Navigation and Legibility</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2013/03/13/navigation-and-legibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In an earlier article, Beloved and Abandoned, we presented the grid plan, using Portland’s layout, as a historic relic perhaps deserving of attention but clearly unfit for replication in...]]></description>
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		<title>The Hopscotch Proof</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Two widely reported, and most likely related, trends have planners and parents concerned: the increasing number of overweight children and the growing number of hours kids spend looking at...]]></description>
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		<title>Low Carbon Communities</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/11/20/low-carbon-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many speak of the need to measure the sustainability of development projects in order to avoid confusion and prevent the unchecked “greenwashing”.  Sustainability measurements involve aspects such as energy use...]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in Regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Planning and health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New neighbourhood design guidelines help developers build more connected healthier neighbourhoods]]></description>
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		<title>The Transformative Power of Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transportation largely shapes a city. The power for transportation evolved from hoof and foot to fuels and to electricity. Electricity made transportation irrelevant to communication; it transported much of human excange on a wire or on waves. because of the density of communication skyrocketed while the dinsity of cities fell.]]></description>
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		<title>Renovating Cities – one block at a time</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/06/01/renovating-cities-%e2%80%93-one-block-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/06/01/renovating-cities-%e2%80%93-one-block-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like buildings, cities need a good makeover once in a while. And the reasons are pretty much the same for both. Time has battered their infrastructure, which has either...]]></description>
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		<title>A Fused Grid Milestone: Red Deer, AB planning guidelines</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/04/26/a-fused-grid-milestone-red-deer-ab-planning-guidelines/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/04/26/a-fused-grid-milestone-red-deer-ab-planning-guidelines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fanis.grammenos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/?p=758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  has 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...]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing a grid, or not</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/03/10/choosing-a-grid-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/03/10/choosing-a-grid-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/?p=738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 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...]]></description>
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		<title>The rise of women&#8217;s role in society: impacts on housing and communities</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/01/29/the-rise-of-womens-role-in-society-impacts-on-housing-and-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/01/29/the-rise-of-womens-role-in-society-impacts-on-housing-and-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/?p=651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ The  rise of women&#8217;s role in society: impacts on housing and communities Author: Luis Rodriguez The rise of women&#8217;s role in society will result in significant impacts on housing and...]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Travel Modes: Correlations, Causality and Caution</title>
		<link>http://blog.fusedgrid.ca/2012/01/22/healthy-travel-modes-correlations-causality-and-caution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health 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.]]></description>
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