Mayor will take pay cut

Fast-food Density And Neighborhood Walkability Linked to Residents weight and waist size

and colleagues show that a high-density of fast food outlets was associated with an increase of 3 pounds in weight and .8 inches in waist circumference among neighborhood residents who frequently ate at those restaurants.

London, Ontario: “Go Big or Go Home,” councillors agree: plan to improve airport

Empty Big Box not easy to fill (a fast growing concern in the suburban landscape)

and in Ontario

Outside buyers drawn to Detroit’s foreclosed homes

Chicago’s pedestrian mall solution: traffic

Calgary plan calls for city to quadruple transit system instead of new major roads

Calgary’s new long-range growth blueprint is calling on City Hall to quadruple the transit network but build no new major roads as the city fits 1.3 million more people within its current boundaries over the next 60 years.

Plan it Calgary, Integrated Land Use and Mobility Plan

Rain Barrels in Euclid 

Being Urban Minded: Three Current Debates Around Urban Design Practice

A Ghostly Commercial Sprawl Drains Municipal Funds

For governments grappling with a fierce economic downturn, urban sprawl is turning out to be far less of a problem than empty sprawl. Across America the skeletal remains of millions of square feet of commercial real estatehave produced a sharp decline in tax revenues. This is forcing government to deal with an upsurge in business properties that are no longer productive.

Is the Future Going Down the Drain? Baby Boomers Going Bust

Among the adjustments forced by the new circumstances, perhaps the cruelest twist for many boomers is the need to join younger generations in the roommate queue. The housing crash has forced record numbers of late-middle age homeowners to take in boarders or risk becoming boarders themselves. From California to Vermont, home-share organizations founded to assist the elderly are scrambling to meet the demands of newly bust boomers. 

More People, More Congestion: population size is the best single predictor of a city’s traffic congestion

Sick of Sprawl?

Ikea project development in Winnipeg: $400 million, 1.5 million square foot commercial

Suburbia R.I.P. Does the downturn spell the beginning of the end for suburbia? Some experts say yesterday’s cul-de-sac is tomorrow’s ghost town.

Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health and MRSA (study also researched in Manitoba and Ontario)

Not just trucks: Ozone pollution tied to hike in death rates: Residents of big cities face greater threat to breathing study finds

Michigan State University president charts course for Michigan Future

Zurich, Where Transit Gets Priority on the Street

Solar cities…inevitable?

Preserving Opportunities through Transit-Connected Affordable Homes

Markham, York Region reviews rules to battle urban sprawl

Peter Newman’s Resilient Cities: The Sustianable Transport City

People over cars, hits Fast Company

economic transition of communities prioritizing a pedestrian infrastructure rather than an auto one, 

Urban Sprawl, Climate Change Fueled Atlanta Tornado

In Markham, the dream of an urban village that never was

Why use sustainable transportation? It’s the convenience stupid?

Canada’s dirty subprime secret

Author takes critical eye to Calgary’s sprawl

Do you Schluff Enough? video, bicycles on sidewalks

Livable Streets Community News: Accessible Grocery Stores

Red Light green light no light, Hamilton grabs a leading role in moving traffic in circles

Where are the traffic lights? A German town removed them, along with curbs and became safer

Russia’s “Little Detroit” Foreign automakers see opportunity to build in Lada land

London, Ontario: Airport fix: Great Idea who pays?

City council has endorsed the concept — but not the funding — of a proposal that would make London’s airport the cornerstone of a strategy to turn the city into a gateway for cargo to and from North America.

Troubled Neighbourhood: Old East Village on rebound

Ghosts towns of Finland, when forestry disappeared and collapses

Wal-Mart, the next bank for America

Water: Fast-growing Western U.S. cities face water crisis

The Rise of the Underground

America’s green hypocrisy Diane Francis, in reply to National Geographic issue looking at Alberta’s tar sands.

Surrey B.C. mayor unveils radical economic development plan

London, Ontario: Servicing woes shelve suburb

Two newspapers in the same company but one takes the gloves off on city hall!

Plan this, council — stop wasting our money

Streets stripped of lights a sign of safer times. Edmonton

A Cultural Plan for Lafayette and West Lafayette, report and study, January 2009

When water rights are privately owned: Chilean Town in Free Market for Water