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Highlight in Urban Planning: The High Line
Back in September of 2010, I wrote a blog post titled ‘Top 20 Urban Successes‘ which discussed the Top 20 most successful urban developments originally posted here. Perhaps the most recent of these...
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The Complete Dominance of Amazon or an Opportunity for Independent Bookstores
Having recently moved to San Francisco, I was absolutely appalled to find out that pretty much every single major bookstore in the city had closed within the last year or was in the process of closing....
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San Francisco Big Winner in Commercial Vacancy Rates
The National Association of Realtors has once again released it’s Commercial Real Estate Outlook Report. The report includes the national United States vacancy rates for industrial real estate,office...
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Monaco Plans Expansion into the Sea?
I was just browsing the internet and found this interesting forum post back from 2006 on SkyscraperCity: Monaco Plan Expansion into the Sea. The topic poster doesn’t provide a news reference but there...
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Are Smaller Cities Our Future?
James Howard Kunstler of Orion Magazine recently released an article titled ‘Back to the Future‘ which makes several predictions on how people will live in the future. Perhaps most interesting is that...
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Neighbourhood Revitilization: A Success Story or a Story of Displacement?
First of all, let me start off by saying that anything here is strictly my opinion and nothing more. But I do believe there is a lot of truth in what I have to say. Just about any city has at least...
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More People Living Downtown = A Less Lively Downtown?
A poster on the SkyscraperPage forum recently presented the idea that as more people move to the downtown of major cities, these downtown areas actually become less lively than before. While this...
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Want a Lifetime Pass on Public Transit? Just Give Up Your Car!
The city of Murcia, Spain has recently started offering residents a lifetime pass on their newly built trolley system. There is only one catch: these same residents must trade in their cars in...
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Travel and Leisure Lists America’s Dirtiest Cities
Having recently moved from Toronto to San Francisco, it wasn’t hard to miss the difference in trash and litter between the two cities. I wouldn’t say Toronto is completely spotless, but it certainly...
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How to Clean Up San Francisco’s Dirty Streets
My previous blog post discussed Travel and Leisure’s recent list of America’s Dirtiest Cities. As I stated at the beginning of that post, I have found San Francisco to be quite dirty with trash and...
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