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The Most Dangerous Road in Georgia

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know. Having lived in Atlanta for over 5 years and having driven on this road shown in the video, I can attest to the fact that accidents are waiting to happen every day. It is a wonder that more people are not killed every day. Unless design [...]

Don't Build your Home, Grow it

Way to Sprawl

Don’t you get the idea that residents of Lyndoch Road don’t really appreciate all that extra traffic through their neighborhood? [source]

Greenbelt causes sprawl

Ottawa is one of the cleanest and livable cities in the world but an energy and environmental think-tank, Pembina Institute suggests that Ottawa’s peripheral greenbelt is in fact encouraging sprawl and thus longer commutes.

Designers wanted to create a green 21st century city

Will the design community respond to the challenge of building the twenty-first century city? Will they rally around the mayor’s plan? The Metropolis Magazine is asking whether designers and city planners will heed to Mike Bloomberg’s vision of creating a cleaner and greener New York City

Rejuvenating Urban India

co-authored by Rohit Pradhan Back in the days when Doordarshan (Indian state television) ruled the airwaves, if you tuned in during the weather forecast, you wouldn’t be completely off the mark if you thought that India’s urban regions comprised solely of Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras – conveniently located in four corners of India. It [...]

Beijing's Urban Planning Museum

A personal account by Monty C.M Metzger from CScout Trend Consultancy. It is basically a large scale model of the capital city’s layout in preparation for the next year’s summer Olympic games. Not much of a museum.

Measure your Neighborhood Walkability

New Urbanism incorporates neighborhood walkability as one of the pivotal factors in improving quality of life as well as working toward conservancy. Considering that obesity is one of the rising health problems in the United States, walkability measures are also used to promote healthy living. Walkability measures in a neighborhood usually include calculating distances to [...]

Urban Planning Lectures Podcasts

At any given time, there are many quality lectures going around on university campuses across the nation. But grad school life is such that you scarcely get time to get done with your classes, assignments, and research and generally miss out on being exposed to great work right on your campus. I try to get [...]

Mumbai's Parking Woes

Any Mumbaikar would be proud of the flyovers and bridges built in recent times and use them as an indicator of urban development. It isn’t long before comparisons with Shanghai start taking root. Only after you scratch beneath the surface, you realize the hollowness of the argument and claims. The recent upswing in economic fortunes [...]

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