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© Chris Yoon; http://www.behance.net/chrisyoon Architects and city planners are becoming more and more familiar with the health effects of our built... 
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Urban design isn’t easy, so when we find a way to make cities work, we often stick with it for a decent chunk of time. Throughout history, urban planners have presented different ideas on how to design successful cities, and their impact is still being felt today. This infographic looks at how ten urban planners have shaped cities, including London, Paris and Washington D.C. Via Lauren Moss
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Cities have inspired movie-makers, artists, architects and engineers for centuries, but what will they look like in the future?
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With train travel regaining popularity and high-speed passenger rail projects or improvements under construction in California, Michigan, and the Northeast Corridor, another era of railroad station construction is dawning. In the last decades of the 20th century, many of the projects undertaken during the golden era of railroad station restorations across the country involved anything except trains. Today, with train travel regaining popularity- Amtrak ridership has jumped 49 percent since 2000- nearly every station project includes intercity train service, and most incorporate other forms of transit, too. In this era, train service is returning to some stations that had abandoned it, and rail hubs once again are seen as magnets for real estate activity and opportunity... Via Lauren Moss
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At the same time, if urban development is not sustainably managed, then the growth of cities can instead be a catalyst for sharp rises in air pollution, slum dwellings, widening economic and social inequalities, energy waste, and ... Via Kitty Gooris
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Learn about Mexico City's path to sustainability in this presentation by the city's Minister of the Environment, Martha Delgado... Via Kitty Gooris
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'We know that the planet is warming up and the human population is growing, raising our demand for resources. The combination of these factors is why the battle against climate change will be decided in cities, particularly cities in the Asia-Pacific. These urban centres are triple ‘hot spots’: they face rising temperatures, increasing populations and escalating consumption. To tackle these challenges, we need practical and successful ideas that can easily be replicated.
At the 4th Sustainable Cities Conference last week in Singapore, I discussed ways for Singapore and Hong Kong, already recognised as innovative cities in tackling these problems, to become even greener and establish themselves as leaders in creating sustainable city models for the Asia-Pacific.' Via Lauren Moss, Norm Miller
Norm Miller's curator insight,
May 14, 2013 10:49 AM
Singapore transformed it's economy faster than any other nation in the world. It is not surprising to see them leading on other dimensions as well.
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If you find the summer heat hard to take, cities are the worst places to be. Studies show that urban spaces can be up to three degrees hotter than surrounding areas. That's because of the "heat island effect"--which is what you get from paving every available surface with heat-absorbing asphalt and concrete. Using a thermal camera, these graphics by artist-researcher Nickolay Lamm explain how a city gets hot and stays hot. Via Lauren Moss
GTANSW & ACT's insight:
Consequences of urbanisation
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From buildings to bike lanes to painting over Broadway, how the city changed in 12 years of Bloomberg. Via Mathijs Booden
Mathijs Booden's curator insight,
August 20, 2013 3:27 AM
Beautiful visualisation the urban restructuring in New York during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor.
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Some city skylines are so iconic they are instantly recognisable.
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"Pittsburgh, called 'hell with the lid taken off' in the 19th century because of its industrial filth, is now an academic leader in the green movement."
GTANSW & ACT's insight:
Strateies for sustainable urban development
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This module looks at the development of Shanghai as one of China's largest economic hubs. Students will gain insight into the factors that aid and hinder economic development using Shanghai as a context. Via Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)
Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc. (GTAV)'s curator insight,
August 1, 2013 3:54 AM
CD - The effects of the production and consumption of goods on places and environments throughout the world and including a country from North-East Asia. |
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USGBC has pulled together state-by-state facts and figures about the strength of the growing green building marketplace, creating an impressive collection of highlights and useful statistics. Find more insights and links at the article. Via Lauren Moss
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" The Smithsonian Magazine recently dipped into David Rumsey's collection of over 150,000 maps to find some of the best representations of American cities over the past couple hundred years. With some simple programming, they were able to overlay images of vintage maps of some major cities onto satellite images from today. The results are fascinating."
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Cities are the laboratories where the most innovative ideas for surviving in the future can be tested. These 10--from New York to Tokyo to Bogota...
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A landscape artist envisions a future of public transport when all buses and vans sport greenery.
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Gleaming high-tech cities are being planned across Africa. Some say they are unrealistic, others say they are the future. Via Matthew Wahl
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These challenges call for new thinking by the professionals such as – architects, urban planners and designers, decisions makers, developers, transportation engineers, utilities providers, social scientists, environmental scientists, economists ... Via Kitty Gooris
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Cities from coast to coast are giving up parking spaces (and the revenue that comes from them) to create green public places for people to sit. Via Jamie Carpenter
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Have you ever wondered where you or your children may be living in 2050? Experts predict that by then three quarters of the world's population will live in cities. Via Norm Miller
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Unprecedented Pace of Urbanization Presents Challenges And Opportunities to China, says 2013 National Human Development Report. Press release distribution provided by World News Report
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July 18, 7:30 am, likely the Xierqi subway station on Line 13. http://beijingcream.com/2013/07/beijing-subway-can-get-a-wee-crowded-in-the-mornings/ Source: ... Via Mathijs Booden
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Impacts of rapoid urbanisation
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"David Greene talks to writer Jeremy Miller about the American Centroid. That's the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the U.S. would balance perfectly if all 300 million of us weighed the exact same."
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The centre of population in the USA has moved further inland and southward compared to Australia. Comparing urbanisation in USA and Australia.
Al Picozzi's curator insight,
August 4, 2013 1:45 PM
Awesome way to show how the settlement of the US continues to move west with the population growing on the West Coast at a faster rate. If you look at the biggest jump between 1850 and 1860 it shows the mass immigration into the US and the further migration to the western part of the US especailly with the gold rush starting in 1849. Great littel piece of information. 
Blake Welborn's curator insight,
November 11, 2013 10:33 PM
Informative, short podcast that details the changing migration of the US. This allows for the comparison of migration and time and the effects of migration over the years in the US. 
Emily Bian's curator insight,
October 17, 2014 7:32 PM
The center of the U.S. population moves about every 10 years. In our APHUG textbook, it also talked about the center moving west. It also talks about the patterns and shifts of migration in the U.S going more west and south now, than before. I wonder if the trend will continue? It relates because we talked about this map in APHUG class, and it was in the textbook. The population trend is moving Southwest. This is interesting for next year's APHUG students, because they get to see a population trend right in the US! It's a good article to think about why population trends are the way it is. 2) migration
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As mega-cities become increasingly dense and over-populated, the transport systems that support them are struggling to cope with the sheer numbers of people trying to move around.
GTANSW & ACT's insight:
Strategies for sustainable urban futures
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