December 2011
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To a large degree, the future urban villages will emerge out of our existing...
– David Sucher, City Comforts
An essential little book for anyone actively engaged in urban design… and a great stocking stuffer!
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Luxury of Small →
Washington developers take lessons from Vancouver urban living by building smaller downtown units with better amenities and more functional use of space.
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Cold Canadian Brutalism →
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The Transportation Planning Rule Every City Should... →
Atlantic Cities article outlines the broken metric that is traffic engineering’s Level of Service (LOS):
“In 2003 the San Francisco County Transportation Authority performed a review [PDF] of LOS and concluded that it failed to support the “development of a balanced, multimodal transportation system” — arguing instead that LOS preserved the flow of motor cars at the...
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