Tagged ‘Denver’
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Saving the Urban Canopy
U.S. cities are losing around 4 million trees each year, but increasingly local governments are imposing soil minimums to help stem the tide. Here’s a look at four such policies.
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From City to State: The Mayors Who Would Be Governors
Today, Wisconsin voters head to the polls to choose between incumbent Gov. Scott Walker and challenger Tom Barrett, the current mayor of Milwaukee. Here’s a list of four current and former governors who were once mayors of major cities.
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INTERVIEW: Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley on Strategies for Successful Metros
The vice president of the Brookings Institution and director of the Institution’s Great Lakes Economics Initiative discuss how economic circumstances can force innovation, what factors to measure to indicate economic growth, and why metro regions should stop trying to be everything to everyone.
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INTERVIEW: Mike Lydon and the Ideal Streetscape
The planner, advocate and Smart Growth Manual co-author discusses beneficial zoning codes, the rise of urban cycling and why an ideal streetscape would accommodate all forms of transportation, rather than pit one mode against the other.
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INTERVIEW: Ellen Dunham-Jones’ “Big Design Project for the Next Generation”
As part of our interview series leading up to the Congress for the New Urbanism, the author of Retrofitting Suburbia spoke with Next American City about various sustainability projects in suburbs around the country, and the key demographic and economic factors that have allowed them to happen.
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Best of Flickr: Cities in the Snow
Thanks to Creative Commons, the best images of snow-covered cities from Boston to Pittsburgh to Houston.
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What Will Be the Fate of the Livable Communities Act?
As a new, more conservative Congress takes office, a preview of the possible.
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Planning Airport-City Connections
How do you get people to the airport? For the majority of Americans it’s by car, but as the country’s airports and metropolitan regions grow, alternatives are increasingly needed.
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Delivering a More Livable Denver
Edward Russel says that Denver is keeping its promise to citizens to become a more transit-oriented metropolis.
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When You’re Building Green, Don’t Forget the Transportation Component
The Department of Energy completes work on a huge zero-carbon building in Colorado. But the structure doesn’t address the negative ecological effects of automobile dependence.
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