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Shelter for the Storm: Comparing Blue and Green Roofs
On the rooftop of Public School 118 in Queens, New York, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), in partnership with the Department of Education, is testing two alternative roofing surfaces. For a three year monitoring period, data from the study at … Continue reading
Posted in Buildings, Built Environment, Energy, Environmental, Infrastructure, Pollution, Sustainability, Urban Design, Water
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It Takes A Village: The Surprising Number of Agencies Behind The Design Of LA’s Streets
The Complete Streets Initiative is a UCLA Lewis Center (part of the Luskin School of Public Affairs) program working to achieve more livable and complete streets for people in the Los Angeles region. Complete streets enable people to travel safely … Continue reading
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Walk Score: How an Online Tool is Changing the Way We Think About “Walkability”
Walk Score is a website that takes a physical address—enter yours here—and uses software to compute data that can measure the walkability of the surrounding neighborhood. Once you type in an address, data is aggregated into an intuitive interface, showing you … Continue reading
Posted in Built Environment, Housing, Open Space, Planning, Public Health, Public Safety, Roads/Highways, Transportation, Urban Design, Walkability
Tagged Housing, urban planning, walkability, Walkscore
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The Parking Games: San Francisco Wants the Odds to be Ever in Your Favor
San Francisco’s new ambitious experiment (inspired by the theories of UCLA’s very own Donald Shoup, and based by the law of supply and demand), aims to ensure that there is always at least one empty parking spot available on every block that … Continue reading
H2 uh-0h: The Reality of Water Scarcity in Southern California
The natural West is a desert landscape, and Los Angeles is a fragile construction of a city. In fact, it would be fatally dry if not for the deliberate diversion of water that is not native to the Los Angeles basin. This … Continue reading
Posted in Built Environment, California Budget, Climate Change, Infrastructure, Public Health, Renewable Resources, Sustainability, Water
Tagged climate change, Colorado River, LADWP, los angeles, Los Angeles Aquaduct, Mono Basin, Owens Valley, sustainability, water, water footprint, water scarcity, William Mulholland
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Bike…To The Future!: How Cycling Infrastructure is Making a Comeback in LA
It goes without saying that altering transportation infrastructure in Los Angeles is a momentous task. Moreover, it will take a combination of successful implementation of public transit and cultural change to relieve the overwhelmed roads in California, especially Los Angeles. What is Los Angeles … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Planning, Public Safety, Transportation, Walkability
Tagged Alternative Transportation, Bicycling, Bike Infrastructure, LADOT, Santa Monica
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Metro, Decoded: The Saga of the Century City Stop
The Westside Subway Extension continues to be a polarizing issue for some members of the Beverly Hills community, and proponents of the continuation of the line. Continue reading
Ground Zero, Rebuilt
Sunday, September 11, 2011 will mark ten years since our nation was tragically struck by terror. In the wake of the disaster, Ground Zero has re-emerged with a new memorial museum, transportation hub, and a 1776 foot tower, among other buildings set … Continue reading
Posted in Built Environment, Infrastructure
Tagged 9/11, Ground Zero, New York, One World Trade Center
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Sustainability on Display
Is this the world’s greenest neighborhood? Kaid Benfield, Director of Sustainable Communities for the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC), posed that question in an article for The Atlantic magazine in which he detailed his visit to Dockside Green. The 15-acre community nestled in Victoria, British Columbia … Continue reading
Posted in Built Environment, Renewable Resources, Sustainability, Urban Design
Tagged Canada, Community, Dockside Green, LEED, New Urbanism, sustainability, Urban Design
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The Blame Game… Who’s Accountable for Pedestrian Deaths?
Transportation advocates believe that pedestrian deaths can be prevented if there are crosswalks to connect bus stops to the apartment communities it serves. According to Jennifer Emert of WTOC, Georgia’s jaywalking laws are tough and the penalties, if there is an accident, … Continue reading
