Social Justice and Urban Design - SFU City

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Stephen Ingrouille at Going Solar, based in Melbourne, Australia, publishes an excellent transportation newsletter. You can find it here.Here s an excerpt the first of two articles on urban design - from the current issue:Social Justice & Urban Design (Part 1) We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us' (Winston Churchill, 1941)The way we form our urban areas, the spaces they enclose and the values they embody have a profound effect on the quality of people's lives. Pla...

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topics: climate-change, design, environment, environmental, housing

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Blogathon #5: Aldergrove--The Good, The Bad, & The Future

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In a couple of hours, I'll be in the Aldergrove Festival Days parade (and Sam will be blogging). Aldergrove, The Place Between , as they call it, is far removed from the services of the western urban corridor. Truthfully, if you were going to take a...

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topics: councillor, density, design, environmental, langley

Blogathon #44: The Resilient City

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Last week, I came across this blog post on The Dirt, called How to Design Resilient Cities. Wherever you stand on the issues of peak oil or climate change, I think there's merit in exploring how a community like ours can become more energy-efficien...

aggregated: 32 weeks 4 days ago | 83 views

topics: abbotsford, climate-change, design, ecological, elected

Americans, Iraqis, Palestinians Biggest Yawners on Climate Change

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

A majority of peoples around the world -- 73 % -- want their governments to put action on climate change at the top of the political agenda, a new global public opinion poll suggests. Unfortunately Americans are not necessarily among them. Only 44% ...

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topics: climate-change, political

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