Posts Tagged "walkable"

Long Blocks, Less Continuity

Posted by on Nov 3, 2009 in Blog | 1 comment

Saturday evening, my husband and I set up some quick and dirty Halloween decorations: orange twinkle lights lined our walk way, battery-operated tea lights set upon the front porch banister, and one latex decapitated head hanging from a tree branch. We sat on our front porch in the early evening darkness and waited for the little trick-or-treator’s….and waited, and waited. Soon, a group of 5 children came bounding up the path. The little ones were slightly hesitant, due to the scary...

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Bustling Sidewalks Equal Safety

Posted by on Oct 27, 2009 in Blog | 3 comments

Yesterday I posted questions I had about how the suburbs were created and why they were patterned on a grid-system. Well, I started reading a terrific book to quell my curiosity about urban planning, published in 1961 by Jane Jacobs, titled The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I’ve only read the first couple of chapters, and yes, it is a book that is almost 50 years old. However, most communities were built around this time, so many of Jacobs’s points are still current...

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Research and Ramblings

Posted by on Oct 16, 2009 in Blog | 2 comments

I’m currently working on a research paper for school, so my mind is a little cluttered at the moment. The class is teaching diversity in the classroom, and my topic I’ve chosen to research is environmental racism. So far, I have read a couple of books by Jonathan Kozol, a prominent author  in detailing segregation in our schools, that describe instances of environmental racism. I chose this topic because 1) I am an advocate of cleaning up our environment, 2) our cities are very...

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Stocks Going Crazy…is that a sign the economy is improving?

Posted by on Oct 15, 2009 in Blog, personal finance | 2 comments

I have a personal dislike for JP Morgan Chase Bank. They canceled my husband’s credit card, even though it was paid in full, and paid in a timely manner without any late payments. They closed his card for very vague reasons that we still don’t understand. However, they recently posted a profit that made the stock market zoom off the charts. So, does this mean our economy is now recovering (in part due to JP Morgan Chase)? I’m slightly hesitant to say we’re in a...

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Creating Bikeable Cities

Posted by on Oct 12, 2009 in Blog, personal finance | 5 comments

I recently read an article in Scientific American about how bike friendly cities have many more women bicycle riders, and how one can gauge how ‘bicycle friendly’ a city is by looking at how many women are riding their bikes. For example, a terrific bike friendly city in Europe is Copenhagen. Copenhagen has a lot of women on bicycles due to their terrific bike infrastructure. (You can check out this great photo-based blog that inspired me to ride my bike.) Another county, cited in...

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