I had the opportunity to take a quick visitor tour through the School of Nursing at the UT Health Science Center, thanks to my fiancee who studies in the adjacent building. This building is counted as one of the top green projects for 2006. I could tell you more but I’ll point you in her direction as she has some interesting links for you. I took few pictures and am sharing a couple:
A gallery of derelict London cinemas accompanied with a brief background of each [via].
Technorati Tags: revitalization, cinema, theaters, redevelopment, abandoned, derelict
Scant regard for pedestrians in India’s capital city that also “boasts” of having most numbers of cars in an Indian city. Of course, pollution is bad although brought under control somewhat by converting public transit buses to CNG. Rampant corruption in obtaining a drivers’ license doesn’t help matters either as it adds thousands of irresponsible drivers on the streets each day. If you prefer numbers:
In 2004, Delhi Traffic Police logged 9,083 accidents, in which 1,832
people died. That’s an average of five auto-related fatalities a day in
a city that boasts 14 million people — but only 2.6 million licensed
drivers, a Transportation Ministry official said. Los Angeles County,
home to 10 million people, had about two such deaths a day the same
year.
Technorati Tags: traffic, Delhi, accidents, roads, transportation, urban
Suburbanization – and even ever greater sprawl – must be accepted as the future. Attempts to stomp out or control outward movement, as Portland tried, have not only failed but have driven settlement even further out beyond the areas of control.
I have been an avid proponent of ‘smart’ growth and continue to believe in the ‘evils’ of suburbia but Joel Kotkin makes a reasonable argument for accepting suburbia and in fact for making it better. Yup! if you can’t beat it, join it.