Monday, January 20, 2014

So Much for the Environmental Benefits of Urban Density

HIA/Health in all Policies

Happy Cities/Environmental Psychology

Biking/Walking/Pedestrians
Bay Area Bike Share Program Logs More Than 100K Trips
Patch.com - Do you think the Bay Area Bike Share program would work in Half Moon Bay and the surrounding Coastside towns? Share your thoughts in the ...

Dan Burden, articulate on how to create walkable communities
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) - We need to address both issues at once by making ourcommunities more walkable. Unfortunately, that can be a tall order in some cities and suburbs ...

Safe Routes to School

Community to clean area around southeast Houston schools for MLK Day of Service

Lynchburg News and Advance - Dearington Elementary School students use the sidewalks to enter the buses and to walk home as school ends last Monday. Sam O'Keefe/The News ...


Obesity/Asthma/Heart Disease
Florida health officials launch new program aimed at curbing rising ...
The Republic - TALLAHASSE, Florida — Florida health official

Urban Farming

Transportation

Housing

Affordable housing development planned for Denver Union Station area.  Denver Biz Journal.

It's Not Too Late to Make San Francisco Affordable Again. Here's How
The Atlantic Cities - My city, San Francisco, is in the midst of an affordability crisis. People here are angry and afraid. The skyrocketing cost of housing comes up in ...

Water/Air/Noise/Pollution/Climate
Fake Sunrise is Beijing's Real Solution to Record Pollution Levels ...
Leigh Hutchens - In an incredibly tragic move by one of the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing has taken to using giant video screens in Tiananmen Square to ...

Land Use/Built Environment

Tower Companies' Borchardt to Speak at Qatar International ...
DigitalJournal.com - ... 28th as an invited speaker at the International Sustainable Built EnvironmentConference (ISBE), in Doha, Qatar, the capital city of the state of Qatar.