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Not all Green Spaces are Created Equal: A Look at the Successes of...
In 2000, the aspiring mayor of Seoul set out to complete an audacious task: destroy an elevated highway used by almost 170,000 drivers a day and revitalize the faltering stream it had cemented shut for...
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The Recycler’s Dilemma
We are at the forefront of environmental planning. Cities and towns alike have more information and technology available than ever before to green the spaces in which residents live. We have seen...
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This is the grand plan to restore Burlington’s waterfront
Sitting alongside Lake Champlain, The Moran Municipal Power Plant in Burlington, Vt. is a relic of another time. The power plant spent its life turning coal into energy for the growing city and was...
View ArticleTransforming the World’s Least Sustainable City
Like it or not, the city is becoming the lifestyle model for most of humanity. And you may be forgiven if your first image is the condo-residing, transit-commuting fashionable type who is always two...
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The High Cost of San Antonio’s North-South Water Divide
It was unwelcome news but certainly no surprise when Smart Growth America released its Measuring Sprawl 2014 study Wednesday and listed San Antonio among the nation’s worst, ranking it 179th on a list...
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Perfect Park Potential: The Case for Liberty Plaza, Part 2
What makes for a great public space? Last week, we explored the idea that Liberty Plaza, while undoubtedly a problematic space today, deserves just as much — if not more — consideration as a place with...
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What’s the Buzz? How Honeybees Help Shape Urban Farming
As consumers, we don’t always know where our food sources come from, or what helps supply it. As of late, the plight of the honeybee has lead to an influx of interest in what is happening in the bee...
View ArticleWho needs Portlandia, when you’ve got … Milwaukee?
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is known for taking prickly offense at the term “Rust Belt.” Nonetheless, the belt fits. The old-line manufacturing cities of the upper Midwest preceded the rest of the...
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but wait, there’s more! 10 huge projects clevelanders are eagerly anticipating
To keen followers, Cleveland’s renaissance has been years in the making. But lately, it seems, the entire nation is beginning to follow along as well. And why shouldn’t they be? A new energy is...
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Sustainable Urbanism: For a Greener Future
Over the last century or so, technology has evolved at a rapid pace, but this ‘progress’ has come at a heavy price. This price is now being paid by Mother Nature, thanks to humanity’s quest for the...
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