Here is a compendium of recent activities and ideas, as reproduced from seattlepi.com:
myurbanist weekend update: assessing new urban placemaking as “preoccupation or prediliction”
Posted by – March 6, 2010
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crosscut.com: chuck wolfe- Can you walk from wok to wok on Capitol Hill?
- Light rail, history collide in Jerusalem
- An ancient city with problems much like our own
- Crime prevention through urban design
- Seeking out 'human-scale' public spaces
- 'Sustainable' stairways, Italy vs. suburban Seattle
- From 1911, the Bogue Plan speaks
- Waiting, statue-like, for the next count
- 'Wrong on metaphysics, wrong for America'
- The tunnel and the 'Westneat dilemma'
- Learning from Detroit, the City of Ruin
- Walkable cities? So how come pedestrian malls usually fail?
- Will a new mayor think boldly about planning?
- The legal issues in 'backyard cottages'
- seattlepi.com: chuck wolfe
- Reading the evolution of places: Seattle and beyond
- inspiring the walkable waterside: who gets, who pays
- Seattle's urbanist air show, over infrastructure
- A Seattle palette for placemaking
- The mission ahead: recalibrating "urbandwidth"
- Private reflections in a Seattle public place
- Urbanist fantasies: a tribute to Seattle's "little places"-- and more
- Renderings of walkable urbanism
- Out of the car: Pedestrians mingling with Seattle memories
- Turning another leaf: Electric vehicle urbanism, Better Place edition
- From Fremont to the "shuk": pedestrian commerce, here and there
- The inadvertent cityscape, Seattle style
- Videoessay: "Walk, bike, ride" transcends Seattle...to Jerusalem!
- Northwest perspective: Forms of placemaking
- Urban greening on a Seattle morning walk
- planetizen
- Meet the Geeks Re-Shaping D.C. Tim Halbur
- Stealth Solar is Slowly Transforming Downtown Portland Tim Halbur
- The Infoscape As An Integral Part of Architecture Tim Halbur
- The Rise of the Global City
- Could Your Next Tomato Come From A Former Best Buy? Tim Halbur
- Why is Transit So Expensive to Build? Tim Halbur
- The Bus Thief Who Just Can't Stop Tim Halbur
- Curbing Corruption Tim Halbur
- Small Towns and Rural Areas Can Be Livable Tim Halbur
- Redefining a Planning Department
- Architecture for People Tim Halbur
- Why Are There So Many Empty Lots? Tim Halbur
- New York Passes Smart Growth Bill The Intrepid Staff
- Suburban Living With Urban Amenities Tim Halbur
- Bikesharing Coming Soon to D.C. Tim Halbur
- Kaid Benfield (Kaid at NRDC)
- A portrait of a neighborhood in transition
- Why doesn't the public health community get it about walkability?
- 'Building a better block' demo is changing a Dallas neighborhood
- To aid NOLA recovery, tear down the expressway & restore the neighborhoods
- Amazing street art that enlivens cities
- Using LEED-ND as a zoning & planning tool
- How LEED-ND works, step-by-step - evaluating a low-carbon development
- 'Maximizing urban cores' vitality and infrastructure must be the basis for any definition of sustainability'
- Urban stormwater runoff 101, by my NRDC colleagues
- What does 'net zero' mean? Sprawl by another name?
New post: myur weekend update: assessing new urban placemaking as "preoccupation or prediliction" (http://cli.gs/SgqnW) http://cli.gs/SgqnW
Transforming the Suburbanite http://j.mp/9AbnPU [Canada example via @gosner]; helps my #Seattle example at http://cli.gs/SgqnW #urbanism