Planning Department

Planning Digest 2013

The "Planning Digest" is a selection of weblinks related to sustainable development, published every Tuesday by the Metro Planning Department. 2013 issues are linked below; previous years' Digests are in the menu to the left.

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Date	Description
May 7	A green school; a week's groceries; TOD in Texas
April 30	Top cycling cities; an interview with Andres Duany; why towns need country
April 24	Complete Streets in Chicago; ten other cities where it's already working; our most bikeable cities
April 16	The value of biking; Cincinnati staircases; how not to get hit by cars
April 9	Intense density; the subways of North America; 3D printing and the future of cities
April 2	Shared space intersections; density in Florida; the "Omaha Abomination"
March 26	Residential development in an old ballpark; retaining young professionals; a pedestrian roundabout
March 19	London cycling; a decline in driving; world water
March 12	Aquaponics; aging "greenfully"; hobbit houses
March 5	Urban farming; taxing bicyclists; one more thing for millennials to worry about
February 26	Where will all the hipsters go?; not enough rental housing; is it real, or a rendering?
February 19	A net-zero-energy house in Korea; timelapse of commuting flow; "orderly but dumb" processes
February 12	STROADing; improving high-density cities; an Australian heliostat
February 5	"The slow lane to urban density"; improving Nashville's urban agriculture; a low-trash family
January 29	New approaches to 4-way intersections;China's huge demand for coal; food sustainability at Emory University
January 22	A "rational house" and a place to build it; how transit could help another Metro; sick trees, sick people
January 15	The genius of traditional buildings; "pretty much a cat with wings"; the death of the American shopping mall, once more
January 8	More new uses for dead or dying malls; you wouldn't expect an auto company to say this; more proof that renewable energy can work
January 1	Healthier communities attract more jobs; one airport, two million worms; "apodments," not apartments