Category: Energy Efficient Places
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True Bike Stories
NYT review of David Byrne’s new book, Bicycle Diaries.
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Preserving and Enhancing the Urban Forest: Can the successful Milwaukee example be applied to Madison?
Preserving and Enhancing the Urban Forest: Do our most majestic street trees always have to be felled during road construction? The Milwaukee experience says no.
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A Way Cool New Vernacular Architecture
Art, architecture, affordable housing, re-use, small biz all rolled into one cool project!
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UrbanMilwaukee.com’s Excellent Analysis of Rail Station Siting in MSN
Probably the best analysis and summary of all of the commentary out there regarding the potential siting of a train station in Madison, Wisconsin. Sometimes it takes a furriner’s perspective to get it right! (UrbanMilwaukee.com is is definitely a blog to watch.) Trains only work when they connect downtowns to downtowns. Thus, the airport site…
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While Madison Rests on its Cycling Laurels….
Madison’s bike infrastructure: Resting on our Laurels
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Book: Urban Pioneers in Oakland
This looks to be a fun read about more urban pioneers!
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Mermaid Cafè, a Crown Jewel of the Eastside; Nay, of Madison; Better Yet, of Wisconsin
Mermaid Cafè’s supreme sandwiches & otherworldly espresso.
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Peak Oil and Places that Suck
Places that suck need massive inputs of concentrated energy to function. Right now, that concentrated form of energy tends to be oil. Oil feeds our deathmobiles which are the only means of access to places that suck. But the ride is getting rougher in those paved paradises, with higher prices here & yet higher prices…
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Cool New Regional Bus Service to Portage
Multi-modal fun on the new bus between Madison & Portage!