Posts tagged San Antonio
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National links: What role will public housing play in fixing the housing crisis?
Can public housing help close the affordable housing gap? Copenhagen creates its first all timber neighborhood. How is the land across the US actually used? Keep reading…
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If you put the Capital Beltway around other cities, how far out would it go?
The Beltway is one of the Washington’s region’s most well-known geographic features. Its ring around DC forms an unofficial boundary between the region’s core and rim. Would that hold true if it were around another city? How does the Beltway compare to other ring roads? Keep reading…
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If you put the DC Beltway around other cities, how far out would it go?
The Beltway is one of the Washington's region's most well-known geographic features. Its ring around DC forms an unofficial boundary between the region's core and rim. Would that hold true if it were around another city? How does the Beltway compare to other ring roads? Keep reading…
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Worldwide links: Chinese roads, Chinese trains
A super highway that wraps around Beijing is now complete, Chinese planners hope a battery-powered Panda monorail is the rail mode of the future, and Houston is serving as a model for other Texas cities when it comes to effective bus transit. Read about this, and more, from the world of transportation, land use, and other related areas! Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Planning ahead
To tax?; Purple haze; Cruel irony; Slow ride; Sidewalk block; A last hurrah; Teachers needed; Defining urban; Charting rent increases. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike hassles
Don’t bike to the Capitol?; No share for bike shops; Bye-bye bike lane; Shrinking units, steady demand; Connecting counties; Speed camera revenue slows down; MARC’s map is “slipshod” and “ugly”; And…. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: bikes, bikinis and boorish modernists
First bike sharing, now tricycle sharing: No, it’s not a program to teach kindergarteners to share their toys. A San Francisco bike shop launched a trike-sharing program for adult-size tricycles, which can carry a lot more cargo than bikes. North Beach residents are using them for errands like trips to the local Trader Joe’s. Tip: Ben T. Keep reading…
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Best sprawl photo ever
Both Streetsblog and Smart Growth America used this photo of San Antonio, from Kaptain Krispy Kreme on Flickr, on recent stories about the Bush administration seeking to raid the transit fund to pay for highways. It really is a terrific illustration of sprawl gone mad. Keep reading…