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Bicycling
Magazine Names America's Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities
- Miami #44
Miami has been named #44 out of the top 50 cities in
the U.S. for bicycling. Special note is made of Miami
as we have moved from one of the worst to one of the
best. |
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Leon
Krier - Book Signing, Lecture, and Discussion on The
Architecture of Community
April 2 & 3, 2010
Alys Beach and Seaside |
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Prefab
Housing for Haitian Earthquake Surviviors
Miami architect Andres Duany is working with InnoVida
Holdings, a Florida-based manufacturer of building materials,
to produce thousands of prefabricated houses for Haitians
made homeless by the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake. |
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Magical
Mystery Tour
May 16 – 18, 2010 priort to CNU 18
Join the "Magical Mystery Tour" which will
precede the CNU in Atlanta.
It is premised upon the success of the tour that preceded
the CNU in Miami in 2002. Andres Duany and many others
will lead tours of 9 different projects over 2 days.
These projects represent some of the best designed projects
at the scale of the neighborhood, block, street and
building. Participants will help identify the top 5
successes and missed opportunities for each project
that will be published in a report that will be presented
at the CNU later that week. While it would be fun to
simply visit these projects, what makes this tour unique
is the ability to see these places through the eyes
of other leading practitioners who will be on the tour
with us. Through this collaborative process, we not
only expect to have a fantastic time, but also learn
more than can be learned in any conference setting.
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Seaside
Prize Weekend
January 29-30, 2010
Each year the Seaside Institute awards the Seaside Prize
to individuals or organizations who have made significant
contributions to the quality and character of our communities.
The event is aweekend celebration honoring the 2010
Seaside Prize Recipient Allan B. Jacobs. |
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Leisureville:
Adventures in a World Without Children just released
in paperback
Blechman delves into life in the senior utopia, offering
a hilarious firsthand report on everything from ersatz
nostalgia to the residents’ surprisingly active
sex life. But this is more than just a romp through
a retirement paradise; Blechman traces the history of
the age-segregated retirement phenomenon, and travels
to Arizona to show what has happened to the pioneering
developments after decades of segregation. A fascinating
blend of serious history, social commentary, and hilarious,
engaging reportage, Leisureville is an important book
on a major, underreported trend. |
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Letter
to President Barack Obama dated April 6, 2009
from the International Network for Traditional Building,
Architecture and Urbanism
Subject: Building a sustainable future in the current
economic crisis: A conflict, or an opportunity |
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Stimulus
Bill Chart
Attached is a chart of state-by-state funding
(provided by AASHTO) from the transportation portion
of the recovery bill. It shows how much each state and
urban area will receive in STP funds (which can be used
for more than just roads and bridges despite their messaging)
and the amount of transit capital funding and fixed
guideway modernization funding will go to each urban
and rural area. |
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| Articles
& Reports |
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Dangerous
By Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian
Deaths (and Making Great Neighborhoods)
by Transportation for America, November 2009 |
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Florida Legislative Documents regarding rail
Summary
of Proposed Statewide Rail Transit
Florida
Rail Bill |
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Florida
Department of Transportation and Department of Community
Affairs Mobility Fee Report
December 2009 |
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Is
a train revamp just the ticket? State fights crowding
Palm Beach Post, October 19, 2009 |
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Gas
Prices May Revive Cities
by Bret Schulte US News & World Report, July
17, 2008 |
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Off
the Grid?
by Charlotte Crane Florida Trend, July 2007 |
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Trailblazer
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk talks about Miami 21
by Matthew Haggman Miami Herald, July 2, 2007 |
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Hurricane-Proof
and Affordable-Katrina Cottage
by Charlotte Crane Florida Trend, June 2007 |
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The
Visionaries
by By Doug MacCash on Nola.com, December 10,
2006 |
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Update
on Florida House Bill 391
by Doris Goldstein, Attorney
May 10, 2006 |
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Duany:
Apply New Urbanism to Affordable Housing
Orlando Business Journal, January 13, 2006 |
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Luxury
is as luxury does
How Charlotte cleaned Orlando's corporate clock
by Bruce Stephenson
Orlando Sentinel, November
17, 2005 |
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ARCHITECTURE:
A building apart
It looks like something ancient and strange, a medieval
abbey or Byzantine church, dropped among the cozy little
Bauhaus boxes of the University of Miami's School of
Architecture.
Miami Herald, October 16,
2005 |
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| Mississippi
Renewal Forum Creates Regional Planning Guidelines for
Rebuilding Gulf Coast Communities (10/13/05)
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Hurricane
Planning pros offer their help
Sun
Herald, September 21, 2005
New Urbanists see chance to end sprawl. They may be
a Dream Team, of sorts, the gold standard in city planning.
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Experimental
community of Seaside is a model for weathering storms:
Village built tough as nails, residents say
Sun-Sentinel, July 12, 2005 |
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Editorial
by CNU Member Bruce Stephenson
Orlando
Sentinel, March 24, 2005 |
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