The April issue of Sustainable City News is online now at:

http://www.sustainablecitynews.com/

This month's featured articles are:

Squaring the Triangle: a Pedestrianized Plaza in Los Angeles
http://sustainablecitynews.com/suntri.html
Something is happening in Los Angeles, a city that embodies the
cliché of car-bound congestion and suburban anomie. The megalopolis
is wriggling out of the straitjacket of concrete avenues that, by
condemning its residents to travel only in metal shells, wrapped them
in loneliness and frustration....

Ten Things to See in Downtown Dallas
http://sustainablecitynews.com/dallas10.html
Dallas has been criticized for not having much of a downtown. I'm not
sure that was ever entirely true, but these days it's clear that
Downtown Dallas is getting better, and fast. Large office towers are
being converted to apartments and condominiums, galleries are filling
empty storefronts and there's both a grocery store and a farmer's
market....

Suburbs Are So Last Century!
http://sustainablecitynews.com/byebyesuburbs.html
Robert Shiller, a professor of economics at Yale University and co-
creator of the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Index quoted Richard
Florida in an interview with Yahoo Finance recently. Shiller said in
the interview that suburban housing prices may not recover in our
lifetime. "Richard Florida calls it the great reset...."

Stepping towards Safety
http://sustainablecitynews.com/dhakapeds.html
When I first visited Bangladesh in 1994, one of my observations was
how little human life is valued; the thought struck me most when
watching pedestrians weave between trucks, buses, and other vehicles
to cross the busy roads. So it comes as no surprise that on average,
almost every day a pedestrian dies in traffic in Dhaka.

And, of course, our extensive archives, services, and blog await your
perusal!

Rick
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Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://www.rickrise.com

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tweeted this. J.

At 2012-04-01 01:08, you wrote:
>
>
>The April issue of Sustainable City News is online now at:
>
><http://www.sustainablecitynews.com/>http://www.sustainablecitynews.com/
>
>This month's featured articles are:
>
>Squaring the Triangle: a Pedestrianized Plaza in Los Angeles
><http://sustainablecitynews.com/suntri.html>http://sustainablecitynews.com/suntri.html
>Something is happening in Los Angeles, a city that embodies the
>cliché of car-bound congestion and suburban anomie. The megalopolis
>is wriggling out of the straitjacket of concrete avenues that, by
>condemning its residents to travel only in metal shells, wrapped them
>in loneliness and frustration....
>
>Ten Things to See in Downtown Dallas
><http://sustainablecitynews.com/dallas10.html>http://sustainablecitynews.com/dallas10.html
>Dallas has been criticized for not having much of a downtown. I'm not
>sure that was ever entirely true, but these days it's clear that
>Downtown Dallas is getting better, and fast. Large office towers are
>being converted to apartments and condominiums, galleries are filling
>empty storefronts and there's both a grocery store and a farmer's
>market....
>
>Suburbs Are So Last Century!
><http://sustainablecitynews.com/byebyesuburbs.html>http://sustainablecitynews.com/byebyesuburbs.html
>Robert Shiller, a professor of economics at Yale University and co-
>creator of the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Index quoted Richard
>Florida in an interview with Yahoo Finance recently. Shiller said in
>the interview that suburban housing prices may not recover in our
>lifetime. "Richard Florida calls it the great reset...."
>
>Stepping towards Safety
><http://sustainablecitynews.com/dhakapeds.html>http://sustainablecitynews.com/dhakapeds.html
>When I first visited Bangladesh in 1994, one of my observations was
>how little human life is valued; the thought struck me most when
>watching pedestrians weave between trucks, buses, and other vehicles
>to cross the busy roads. So it comes as no surprise that on average,
>almost every day a pedestrian dies in traffic in Dhaka.
>
>And, of course, our extensive archives, services, and blog await your
>perusal!
>
>Rick
>--
>Richard Risemberg
><http://www.bicyclefixation.com>http://www.bicyclefixation.com
>http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
><http://www.rickrise.com>http://www.rickrise.com
>
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J.H. Crawford
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http://www.carfree.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carfreecities
Video channels:
http://vimeo.com/jhcrawford/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/CarfreeCities

Three global organizations this week launched a new public database of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems around the world.

The new site, BRTdata.org, provides reliable and up-to-date data to help researchers, transit agencies, city officials, and NGOs understand and make better decisions to improve BRT and bus corridors in their cities. This is the first time that this publicly available data has been compiled in one place.

The website was created by EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute's center for sustainable transport, and the Across Latitudes and Cultures – Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence (ALC-BRT CoE), in collaboration with the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Users are invited to improve the knowledge base by reporting data inconsistencies or sharing additional data to fill in any gaps. Contact: info-cgvW0IvWQRxAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org.

LEARN MORE

Read the official press release: http://www.embarq.org/en/news/12/03/30/new-global-database-bus-rapid-transit-launched

Join the discussion: For an introduction to BRTdata.org and a chance to ask questions to the partners behind the project, tune into a webinar on Tuesday, April 10 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Register here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/949999098.

Learn some key facts: TheCityFix.com provides some need-to-know numbers of BRT trends: http://thecityfix.com/blog/brt-by-the-numbers-new-database-launched/

Read a report: Cities with BRT have a unique opportunity to market and brand their systems and position themselves as efficient and convenient transport options, as EMBARQ highlighted in its report, "From Here to There: A Creative Guide to Making Public Transport the Way to Go": http://www.embarq.org/en/from-here-there-a-creative-guide-making-public-transport-way-go

Watch videos: Check out EMBARQ's YouTube playlist of original videos about BRT systems around the world: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9C8FFA2249C3B7DA

Get a tour: Watch this screencast tutorial on how to use new website: http://youtu.be/KJU-fWvSBY0

Hi All,

My newest video, With Cars or Without? is now on line at:

http://vimeo.com/39802156

All thanks to the magic of Photoshop.

It's exactly one minute long.

Best,

J.

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J.H. Crawford
mailbox-WdiPhmTxsBdBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org
http://www.carfree.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carfreecities
Video channels:
http://vimeo.com/jhcrawford/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/CarfreeCities

LA Weekly, which normally verges on tabloidism, presents a superb,
positive article on CicLAvia, LA's take on the ciclovias of Bogota:

http://t.co/nYrRdWMh

Well worth reading!!

Rick

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Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://www.rickrise.com

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Hi All,

I've posted a new slide show/video at YouTube:

For the Love of Venice (3 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k472oVROBX4&feature=youtu.be

It's available at full 1080 HD, although in the evenings play will probably be stop-and-start.

Also, see:

With Cars or Without? (1 minute)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prw4ylxpi70 (YouTube)
or
http://vimeo.com/39802156 (Vimeo)

This slide show compares five streets in my own Summit, NJ, as the are today and how they could be with cars removed, all thanks to the magic of Photoshop.

There are a number of other relatively new videos on both channels.

I would appreciate it if you could Like these videos and pass them around as widely as possible.

Thanks and best regards,

J.

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J.H. Crawford
mailbox-WdiPhmTxsBdBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org
http://www.carfree.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/carfreecities
Video channels:
http://vimeo.com/jhcrawford/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/CarfreeCities

Some reflections on the now marginal activity of walking in the US. First in a series of four articles:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/walking/2012/04/why_don_t_americans_walk_more_the_crisis_of_pedestrianism_.html

Christopher Miller
Montreal QC Canada

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What do you think of Sustainable City News's new city page format?
Please take a look and let us know!

http://www.tinyurl.com/7ow4vny

Thanks,

Rick
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Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://www.rickrise.com

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"Ephemeral Interventions": superb article on CicLAvia from The Design
Observer, on how it came about and its power to create permanent change:

http://tinyurl.com/6somoc6

Rick
--
Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://www.rickrise.com

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R. Rich tipped me off to this excellent series on Walking in America;
have read only part 1 so far but am impressed:

http://tinyurl.com/7b2wvof

Rick
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Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://www.rickrise.com

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