Monthly Archives: August 2013

Fighting for an American Countryside

People in rural Minnesota are battling small-town decline with determination, resourceful thinking, and unwavering belief. “Conclusion:In the end, it seems clear that some rural cities and regions will thrive, perhaps because of an ability to keep and train young people, … Continue reading

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Carfree “Great City” To Be Built in China

From de Zeen Magazine  Work is about to start on a high-density, car-free “satellite city” for 80,000 people that will be built from scratch in a rural location close to Chengdu and later replicated in other parts of China. Continue … Continue reading

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Public Markets

By Andrew Alexander Price Public markets, when done right, are a vital part of a healthy urban economy. They encourage innovation, they create activity, and most of all, they lower the cost of entry to the market, which in turn, … Continue reading

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What Maine Can Teach the Rest of the Country About Farming

  Forget Stephen King and lobster rolls. The really impressive thing about Maine? Farms are being started at a rate nearly four times faster than the national average, the average age of its farmers is below the national — and … Continue reading

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Andres Duany on Smart Growth

A founding father of the Congress for New Urbanism talks about zoning reform, climate change, and the fate of greenfield development. by Jenny Sullivan There’s no shortage of elected officials betting their legacies on smart growth. Cities are increasingly embracing … Continue reading

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The Case for the Adaptive Code

By Andrew Burleson and Erik Johnson, Fourth Environment, LLC Understanding the Conventional Regulatory Framework of 20th Century Cities, and how we can achieve better outcomes by embracing a new paradigm in the 21st Century. What is a city? A city is … Continue reading

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COMPLEXITY, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES

by Joseph A. Tainter, 1996 Historical knowledge is essential to practical applications of ecological economics. Systems of problem solving develop greater complexity and higher costs over long periods. In time such systems either require increasing energy subsidies or they collapse. … Continue reading

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The Cities That Live Behind Walls

By Vincze Miklos Piscataquis Village will have a clearly defined edge between the Village and the farm/recreational land that will surround it. – Piscataquis Village “For thousands of years, humans have been defending their cities by building huge walls around … Continue reading

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Copy-And-Paste Towns

By Andrew Price “I am a huge supporter of economic gardening – the idea that the economy and jobs are things we should grow locally, rather than economic hunting – searching for jobs and bringing them here. The problem of attracting … Continue reading

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