Italian stairways in Conversano, Vernazza, and between Atrani and Ravello meet their distant cousin, the “greened up” suburban escalator. What will they say to one another? Which is Led Zepplin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, and why?
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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'
- seattlepi.com: chuck wolfe
- Photoessay: Interpreting Seattle urbanism, sun and sky
- 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
- urban point of view
- planetizen
- Traffic Deaths at 60-Year Low Tim Halbur
- Recovery Through Open Data in Detroit and New Orleans Nate Berg
- Street Art Inspired by the Cityscape Nate Berg
- The Urban Impact of Richard Daley Nate Berg
- Developing Detroit's New Comprehensive Plan Tim Halbur
- Backing the Infrastructure Bank Nate Berg
- Does Transportation Funding Violate the Civil Rights Act? Tim Halbur
- Subway (and Subway Riders) To Heat Apartment Building Tim Halbur
- Obama Calls For $50 Billion Transportation Stimulus Irvin Dawid
- Sharing the Civic Commons Tim Halbur
- Kaid Benfield (Kaid at NRDC)
- Evocative images of cities past, 'reclaiming the urban memory'
- More on the semantics of sustainability: is it time to reframe the 'triple bottom line'?
- What is a 'sustainable community,' and what does the answer have to do with us?
- Job creation through smart land use & transportation
- 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
New post: sustainable urban stairways meet green infrastucture, mall-style (http://cli.gs/mpqUm) http://cli.gs/mpqUm