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A post from NRDC’s Switchboard: Orenco Station found to have more walking, community interaction

By On October 19, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following was written by Kaid Benfield and originally posted on the Switchboard, the NRDC blog:

As many readers of this blog already know, Orenco Station was built as one of the country’s first new, suburban transit-oriented developments. It’s on Portland’s MAX light [...]

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A master plan behind covering the Path to Prosperity in shade: Incorporating street trees into the urban design of neighborhoods

By On October 19, 2009 · 2 Comments

In his seminal book “Great Streets”, Allan Jacobs wrote “given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.”

I couldn’t agree more.

This is not simply an exercise in greenwashing or tree-hugging. In fact, when planning for cities one of the more damaging paths to [...]

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Planetizen recognizes Klinkenberg as ‘A Spokesman for Urbanity’

By On October 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Looks like Planetizen found the Pitch’s profile of me from last week here. For those that don’t know, Planetizen is a user-contributed site dedicated to urban planning. They do a good job on reporting, reviewing and critiquing current and future urban planning practices and news.

They also have a very interesting top

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America’s Most Walkable Cities: Walk Score shows you where your city stands

By On October 13, 2009 · 1 Comment

We’ve been a fan of Walk Score since it’s inception, and are interested to see how it progresses. This article looks at the most walkable cities in the US – where is yours?

America’s Most Walkable Neighborhoods

Back to the Future: Walkable Urbanism

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Suburban sprawl slowing to a crawl: Could your suburb fall victim to the housing bust?

By On October 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following summary provides some important insight into suburban sprawl. First, how the lack of diversity in housing type in too many suburban communities is likely to impact the housing market in the coming decades. Plus, how the demographics for these areas are changing and what some of the likely remedies are for these dying [...]

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