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Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America | Brookings
How and where Americans live, work, and play are important issues for the nation’s sustainability and energy security.
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Gil Kelley: Charting a City's Future | Oregonian
A Portland, Ore., planning director presents ideas that apply well beyond the Rose City.
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Climate Adaptation for Resilient Communities
I explore the idea and practice of adaptation, while surveying a range of materials that have caught our attention.
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Resilient Cities
If a city wanted to set about deliberately developing the quality of resilience, could it do so?
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Richard Florida: How the Crash Will Reshape America | The Atlantic
What’s the right spatial fix for the economy today, and how do we achieve it?
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Noam Cohen: Wikipedia - Exploring Fact City | NYT
The marvel of Wikipedia — and cities — is that all the intercourse and spiritual stimulus don’t make living there impossible. Rather, they are exactly what makes living there possible.
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Portland: Quest for the Livable City
Incorporating historic footage of Portland's growth as the self-proclaimed "City that Works," this documentary film chronicles the complex challenges of aspiring to be a more sustainable metropolis.
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Christopher Leinberger: Car-Free in America | NYT
American families who are car-dependent spend 25 percent of their household income on their fleet of cars, compared with just 9 percent for transportation for those who live in walkable urban places.
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Sustainable Energy Financing Districts | Miller–McCune
A "turnkey" model for cities to access on-demand financing for energy projects bundles scores of bonds for individual solar-installation projects into a package big enough that it won't be laughed out of the market.
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Winkelman and Bragdon: Sidewalks are as sexy as hybrids | Senate Testimony
Our nation cannot successfully address climate change without reforming our transportation system. And we cannot successfully reform our transportation system without improving the way our communities are designed, and reducing the need for people to drive.
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William Rees: Rethinking the City as Complete Human Ecosystem
A ‘city-as-(eco)system’ would be an urban region comprising both the built environment and as much as possible of the population’s supportive hinterland.
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Arthur C. Nelson: Metropolitan Transit and Density
Nelson predicts that there will be a surplus of between 3 million & 22 million homes on large lots (built on one-sixth of an acre or more) by 2025. He & other experts foresee these big homes in the exurbs eroding in value, with many of them being subdivided into multiple units.
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Planning for Climate Change in the West | Lincoln Institute
This report underscores the critical role of local planners in confronting challenges posed by climate change and acting in concert with federal, regional, and state efforts to implement mitigation and adaptation policies.
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Sam Adams: 20-Minute Neighborhoods | The Atlantic
The 20-minute complete neighborhood concept puts a very high value on the trip not taken, the mile not driven. The biggest challenge has been getting federal funding for investments that prevent trips.
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Neighborhoods and EcoDistricts
Whether neighborhood level policies can be scaled, and whether it would be cost effective to do so, should be early and prominent features of any EcoDistrict analysis.
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Luis Bettencourt and Geoffrey West: Cities as Complex Systems
Three main characteristics vary systematically with population: socio-economic activity and diversification accelerate while space required per capita shrinks.
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Urban Climate Change Research Network | Nature
It is becoming ever more common for scientists and policy-makers to consider adaptation and mitigation side-by-side, to help see the synergies between them.
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Peter Taylor: Cities in the World-System
The specific purpose of this study is to provide a geohistorical empirical description and analysis of the modern world-system as a mega-process led by dynamic urban economies.
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Matthew Stadler: Between City and Countryside | Oregon Humanities
How can we finally leave the long, divisive story of the city and the countryside behind us?
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Urban Density and Operating Costs | UNEP
Densification reduces the capital and operating costs of infrastructure.
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