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Healthy Travel Modes: Correlations, Causality and Caution
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsHealth 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... -
Closer for coziness, fun, safety and profit.
Posted on November 12, 2010 | No CommentsComing back from a cottage vacation, visions of places with the alluring attributes of a cottage emerge: A large lot, fronting a quiet, densely planted street and backing on to... -
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... -
The True Public Realm
Posted on April 16, 2010 | No CommentsSame 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.... -
Unplanned Best Urbanism, Adaptive Mix of Uses
Posted on March 14, 2010 | No CommentsPostponed, adaptive mixed use and walkable neighbourhoods. At the perimeter of this early 20th century city stood proud, simple or embelished houses on a quiet street;... -
Goodbee Square:The Quest for a Contemporary Urban Pattern
Posted on March 8, 2010 | No CommentsGoodbee Square, a recent project by Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company constitutes a fertile departure from previous DPZ plans, integrating novel elements of traffic flow, pedestrian movement, traffic safety, park allocation...