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Biking in Nebraska: Health, Cost, and Environment
Read more: Biking in Nebraska: Health, Cost, and EnvironmentThis past week we saw temperatures hitting 50 degrees, an incredible gift for January in Nebraska. This also meant the snow was completely melted, making biking an option I would consider. I did take advantage…
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Enhance Your Sustainability with Google’s Tools
Read more: Enhance Your Sustainability with Google’s ToolsWhile reading the latest issue of Planning Magazine I came across an etcetera piece on Google’s new sustainability resources. I find it refreshing that major corporations are taking an interest in issues that have global…
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Exploring Wildlife in Rocky Mountain National Park
Read more: Exploring Wildlife in Rocky Mountain National ParkIts been almost three months since I camped in Rocky Mountain National Park, but I’m finally getting around to writing about the trip. I’ve been camping before, but never in a national forest like Rocky…
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The Past and Future City
Read more: The Past and Future CityBook Review Places bring people together and relate our history. While preservation is thought of primarily as ornate and important buildings, it is often the ordinary buildings and neighborhoods that are imbued with meaning through…
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Lessons from Living in Minneapolis: Urban Planning Insights
Read more: Lessons from Living in Minneapolis: Urban Planning InsightsI have lived in several cities in the past five years including Lubbock, Texas, Rochester and Columbia Heights, Minnesota, and most recently Minneapolis. Each city has imparted some lasting impressions and I taught me invaluable…
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Copenhagenize
Read more: CopenhagenizeBook Review I have not had the opportunity to visit Copenhagen, but definitely have it on my list for a future vacation after reading Copenhagenize by Mikael Colville-Anderson. It would be incredible to bike in…
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The New Urban Crisis
Read more: The New Urban CrisisBook Review The new urban crisis does not have a simple definition. According to Florida, it encompasses the gap between superstar cities and all other cities where success of superstar cities creates high housing costs…
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Bird Electric Scooters: The Future of Urban Mobility?
Read more: Bird Electric Scooters: The Future of Urban Mobility?Everybody’s heard of Bird if you live in one of the major metro areas that are fortunate, or unfortunate depending on who you ask, to have these electric scooters. The Bird company started in California…
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Retrofitting Suburbia
Read more: Retrofitting SuburbiaBook Review Despite being published almost ten years ago, Retrofitting Suburbia has many relevant lessons for salvaging suburban sprawl created by generations before us that took the term Euclidean zoning and ran with it. They…
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Interactive Art Installation Celebrates Immigrant Stories
Read more: Interactive Art Installation Celebrates Immigrant StoriesIt was almost a year ago that I wrote about an interesting piece of artwork installed at the Commons Park in downtown Minneapolis. This year I watched during my lunches as a new educational piece…
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