Sustainability – Page 2 – The Urbanist Dispatch

Planning for disaster in the wake of Hurricane Sandy

December 17, 2013

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Natural disasters have the tendency to churn up new words in the media, changing the vocabulary of the people affected by them. These words seem to fluctuate over time; coming and going with the ebb and flow of...

Empty Lot Near Meldrum and Kercheval, just west of the proposed Hantz Woodlands site. Photo by jbcurio on Flickr.

A 140 acre forest is about to pop up in Detroit

John Cruz

November 1, 2013

Sustainability

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The lower east side of Detroit is about to get a make-over. Hantz Woodlands (formerly known as Hantz Farms), has reached a deal with the State of Michigan to purchase 1,500 parcels of non-continuous land for th...

Bikes outsell Automobiles in United States and almost all of Europe.

John Cruz

October 24, 2013

Featured, News, Sustainability, Transportation

National Public Radio has reported that the number of bicycles is outselling cars in almost all of european countries, with countries such as Italy seeing new bicycle sales outpacing new car sales for the first...

Highway to Greenway

David Mieksztyn

January 5, 2012

News, Sustainability

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In Madrid, Spain, when a highway becomes noisy and pollutant, they bury it underground and put a park on top. The New York Times recently featured Madrid Rio, an urban park created on top of a once above groun...

Turkish Protest. Photo by turquoisedays on Flickr.

Parks, Open Space, and the Right to Revolution

John Cruz

October 1, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Sustainability

The Bill of Rights of the New Hampshire Constitution, Article X, reads: 10. Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private inter...

What exactly IS the DEGC looking to do with the old Tiger Stadium site?

John Cruz

September 17, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development, Featured, Sustainability

It seems that the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation has rejected yet another proposal to keep activity on the ball field of former Tiger Stadium. The stadium at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was demolis...

Boardwalk Empire Train. Photo by SubwayNut.com

TV Politicians and Urban Improvements

John Cruz

September 10, 2011

Sustainability

Can fictional politicians be more effective than real politicians when it comes to urban beautification? That's the implicit question posed by cable network HBO at their TV Production Studio, when their latest ...

Parking lot gardens? Why not!

John Cruz

August 26, 2011

Featured, Sustainability, The Burbs, Transportation

One of the ugliest sights of American suburbia is the sea of concrete which provides parking for all of the merry patrons coming to shop. Adding insult to injury, the parking lots are a gigantic a monument to p...