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		<title>mo &#8211; mobility for tomorrow</title>
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mo &#8211; mobility for tomorrow from LUNAR Europe on Vimeo.
mo subscribers can rent bikes, cargobikes, ebikes and cars or use public transportation with just one card. With mo it pays to be eco-friendly: choose an eco-friendly transport or use your own bike to collect momiles. The more momiles the lower your bill. For instance if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/ecocities/mo-mobility-for-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>The Non-Intentional Landscape of Tokyo</title>
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In Japan, ‘public’ is more of a mental construct than a physical presence” and the concept of ‘privacy’ has never taken hold. The closest native Japanese approximation of private-public may be uchi (family, clan, group)-soto (that which is not uchi) where uchi extends the Western ‘private’ to ‘other private’ plus ‘public’. A history and present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/creative-cities/1802/</link>
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		<title>Copenhagen&#8217;s novel problem: too many cyclists</title>
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Can there be too many bikes in a city for safety? It&#8217;s not a question usually asked: the received wisdom, supported by research and backed by campaigning groups, is that the more cyclists there are, the safer the roads become for everyone.
But in Copenhagen – one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/traffic/copenhagens-novel-problem-too-many-cyclists/</link>
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		<title>An Apple Tree Grows in Suburbia</title>
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Used to be, developers built high-end suburban communities around golf greens.
The hot amenity now? Salad greens.
In a movement propelled by environmental concern, nostalgia for a simpler life and a dollop of marketing savvy, developers are increasingly laying out their cul-de-sacs around organic farms, cattle ranches, vineyards and other agricultural ventures. They&#8217;re betting that buyers will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/ecocities/an-apple-tree-grows-in-suburbia/</link>
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		<title>Architecture, urbanism, design and behaviour</title>
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In designing and constructing environments in which people live and work, architects and planners are necessarily involved in influencing human behaviour. While Sommer (1969, p.3) asserted that the architect “in his training and practice, learns to look at buildings without people in them,” it is clear that from, for example, Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/public-life/architecture-urbanism-design-and-behaviour/</link>
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		<title>Urbanism needs to move beyond city boundaries</title>
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Our fractured metropolitan regions are the big problem in creating sustainable solutions for climate challenges. High-towered, dense city living is only a small part of the solution, which is to develop “ecological urbanisms.”
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		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/climate-change/urbanism-needs-to-move-beyond-city-boundaries/</link>
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		<title>In Tokyo, Parking Cars Makes More Money Than Parking People</title>
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Land assembly is tough in Tokyo; families often have owned little tiny plots for generations. These become their main source of income and they rarely sell them, to develop them, they often build really silly and inefficient sliver buildings with minuscule footprints. This one, by Martin Van Der Linden of Van Der Architects, has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/density/in-tokyo-parking-cars-makes-more-money-than-parking-people/</link>
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		<title>What is Post-Utopian Urbanism? Urbanism, Utopias, Urbatopia</title>
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The enterprise of surveying the intimate relationship between Urbanism and Utopia consists of reading the dynamics and transformations that affected cities and their planning over the centuries, together with the discourse surrounding this practice. Put otherwise, the topic at hand here is one of epistemological concern, and is conducive to a two-part analysis: it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/urbanization/what-is-post-utopian-urbanism-urbanism-utopias-urbatopia/</link>
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		<title>Suburbia: What a Concept</title>
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There is no more iconic suburb than Levittown, the postwar planned community built by the developer William Levitt in the late 1940s, so it is understandable that in launching Open House, a collaborative project to imagine a “future suburbia,” the Dutch design collective Droog in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro architects would make it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/suburbs/suburbia-what-a-concept/</link>
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		<title>Would $12,000 Convince You To Move Closer To Work?</title>
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A program in Washington, D.C. is bribing people to move from the suburbs to downtown. Is it money wisely spent?
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		<link>http://www.urbanism.org/traffic/would-12000-convince-you-to-move-closer-to-work/</link>
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