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Big Data, Cities and Preservation

Here's an article from Massachusetts Institute of Technology that has gleaned the four urban conditions that create vibrant city life...

Here's another article from The Atlantic Monthly entitled How to Decimate a City about the damage a highway caused Syracuse, New York....

Here's a shot from Erin Ward's hometown of Clinton, New Jersey... AND a short primer from the National Trust on how to establish a local...

These ‘relocation villages’ are like Levittown for farmers—with no farms! Talk about poor planning! A very grim outcome for the powerless...

During Hurricane Matthew I went to Hendersonville, NC. Hendersonville is a ‘Main Street’ program town, and has redesigned the primary...

“Claire Weisz, an urban designer at WXY, a Manhattan firm that redesigned the streets around Astor Place, said Barcelona’s superblock...

Public outcry against the geo-bags was great even before they were installed…. Locals are now calling this beach “Dirtbag Beach.’ Locals...

Hurricane Sandy was the catalyst for this recent report by the ACoE. Flooding, erosion, climate change are issues for the hamlet of...

Here’s a link to New York State’s CLG advisory/info page. East Hampton has just begun the process of becoming a CLG.

I finally found the East Hampton Town Comprehensive Plan AND a New York State Scenic Areas of Statewide significance document as well as...