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A Change in Our Planning Paradigm
Editors note on our Sustainable Cities series: 2012 marked the first time in human history a majority of the world’s population lived in urban areas. Cities can be major drivers of economic growth and...
View ArticleReturning to “Normal” After Natural Disasters
Editors note on our Sustainable Cities series: 2012 marked the first time in human history a majority of the world’s population lived in urban areas. Cities can be major drivers of economic growth and...
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Urban Hunger
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the Chicago Council’s Food For Thought blog. Today more people worldwide live in urban areas than in rural ones – an increasing trend which has a...
View ArticleChanges Coming to New York Subway
If you live in New York City, you’ve likely heard about the pending (and temporary) closure of the L-train. Since January, when Gothamist leaked a report about the potential shutdown, the news spread...
View ArticleWhere Should the Green Go?
What makes some infrastructure green and other infrastructure grey? For planners, engineers, and researchers focused on cities and sustainability, green infrastructure a buzzword that is often...
View ArticleNot Investing in Public Transportation: A Long-Term Cost
On your way to work, you squeeze on the crowded train, in between briefcase-toting businessmen and mothers bringing their children to school. On the weekends, services are delayed or suspended. Late...
View ArticleThe Construction Industry’s Role In Sustainability
If you live in an urban city, it’s a pretty common sight to see construction cranes dotting the skyline. Every month, it seems like more buildings are towering above us and new homes are taking over...
View ArticleConsidering (Smaller) Sustainable Housing Models
As a planner, designer, and millennial, I have struggled with what housing means in my life and how we can make housing leaner, greener, and better. First, the financial crisis of 2008 hit just as I...
View ArticleA Move Toward Form-Based Code
In 1926 the City of Euclid, Ohio won a landmark Supreme Court case, Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926)), that ruled establishing zoning codes to regulate land use was...
View ArticleCycling Infrastructure in the 21st Century
Editor’s Note: This post is part of the on-going collaboration between S&S and GreenBuzz to promote increased dialogue between sustainability practitioners, academic experts, and the general...
View ArticleBeing Like the High Line
Walk down 18th Street in Manhattan’s gritty Chelsea neighborhood and you’ll come across a metal stairway that will take you up to a narrow strip of lush park, a mile and half long and three stories...
View ArticleBike-Sharing in China
Once known as the “kingdom of bicycles”, China’s hallmark was its people who commuted everywhere and for everything—work, shop, fun—by bicycle. Now, China’s industrialization has been accompanied by...
View ArticleAn interview with Alex Washburn, New York City’s former Chief Urban Designer
http://www.senseandsustainability.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Washburn-Podcast-Final.m4a Aroop Mukharji discusses urban planning, sidewalks, the High Line, and disaster planning with New York...
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We already know which grid fixes can keep lights on during bad storms. Here...
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
View ArticleAfrica’s first plastic road
The first plastic road in Africa is set to be built in the town of Jeffrey’s Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. J-Bay, as the town is affectionately known as by locals, is perhaps more famous...
View ArticleNew York City and Beyond: Building Owners Put on GHG Notice
Last month, the New York City Council approved a broad-spectrum green building law, in what could be considered a clarion call to the legislative bodies of other large cities. According to the Council,...
View ArticleHeat, fire, smoke and blackouts: How to live with our new reality
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by the Environmental Defense Fund, an organization focusing on creating economical policies to support clean air and water; abundant fish and wildlife;...
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