Category: Urban Design/Planning/Geography
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Nicole Foss: “The Great Recession, Energy Depletion, and Political Turmoil,” at Goodman TONIGHT
Nicole Foss will be speaking tonight at 7 at the Goodman Center (details below). She is quite a speaker. I went to see her when she was here back in 2010. Her thinking is amazing–bringing together economics, social relations, and the natural/physical world in one very all-encompassing view. She is very good at demonstrating–jargon-free–the physical/energy…
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And the Paving Goes On….
Just sent this to the Long Range Transportation Planning Committee: Dear Commissioners, I have reviewed in great detail Item 5. Informational Presentation on the Preliminary Design of the CTH M Roadway Corridor (Prairie Hill Road to Cross Country Road). How can any of these highway expansion options be acceptable in light of the budget squeeze caused by…
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Downtown Plan: Pave the Lakes! Drive a Stake through Miffland!
Madison’s Downtown Plan seeks to kill everything that makes Madison not Rockford: Kill Miffland, Pave the Lakes.
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Trains, Planes & Automobiles: Bikes Emerge Victorious in Carmageddon
Bikes win LA’s Carmageddon.
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Surprise! Surprise! Budgetary Surprise! (Not!)
As I predicted three years ago, Madison highway expansion binge is overwhelming city finances.
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Talk: The Urban Forest is Broken: Solutions for a Pending Crisis
Keeping our cities green with healthy trees; Peter MacDonagh presents.
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Pave, Baby, Pave!
Madison: A city hardwiring itself for mandatory driving, mandatory energy gluttony, mandatory dirty water, mandatory flooding. Pave, Baby, PAVE!
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Cycle Chic and Urban Revival
It’s happening…the hipsters are taking over the world, and infiltrating the fashion world! Next thing you know, bloomers will be back in vogue! The whole bike fashionista thing has long been brewing here in Madison, and the best viewing perches are Cafe Zoma and Mermaid Cafe on the East Side, and, of course, any cafe…
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Please show your support for MSN-MKE Rail TODAY!
From Hans Noeldner: Transit and Rail Supporters: Please come and show your support for Madison-Milwaukee Rail TODAY! What: WISDOT open house on High Speed Rail station design for Madison Where: 101 East Wilson Street, Madison / map: http://tinyurl.com/29ppofz When: 4:30-7:30 PM http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/d1/hsrail/need.htm We (WISPIRG and others) need people outside the building with signs, handing…