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Photo Credit: Dean Terry

The issue of gated communities in North America is rearing its ugly head again. It started earlier this year with the death of Trevon Martin, the young man visiting family in a gated community who ended up being accused of trespassing and shot dead in an altercation…

(via humanscalecities)

…But are our cities, the places we live, being built for young people? Do kids really care about the way our city looks? The way it is designed, built and managed?

Two young Saskatoon urban planners are looking to answer those questions. They have created a summer camp designed to engage children as young as 10 in the world of urban design.

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At the weekend camp, kids between 10 and 13 learn about everything from zoning bylaws and restrictions to how to design roads, build bridges and bike lanes. They take tours through parks and neighbourhoods and learn about different concepts of urban design.

thestarphoenix, 13.06.12.

(Source: lifeonfoot, via captainplanit)

Residents of the yet-to-be-built town of Piscataquis Village, Maine, will keep cars from overrunning their town by making their streets too narrow to shove any but the cutest vehicles down them, reports Market Urbanism.

A group of Maine residents wants to start a Kickstarter-style funding project for the village, where interested parties will pledge to buy some portion of the necessary 125 acres of land. If the group reaches critical mass, construction of the town’s tiny streets will get underway.

grist.org, 31.01.12.
market urbanism, 27.01.12. 

Let’s make a European village in America!

a “narrow street” in Lucca, Italy

I’m a little worried about the shortened name for this village.

By 1961, people like Jane Jacobs raised her voice about this new situation in her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. But, not much happened for three or four decades. The idea of “Cities for People” became an overlooked and forgotten dimension.

This is the story told by Jan Gehl in his new book. He describes why looking after people is crucial for the quality of cities in the 21st century, how it can be accomplished and how it is actually done by now in more and more projects in more and more cities. The transformations carried out in such cities as Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, Amman and New York will serve as examples of this new people-oriented direction in planning.

to watch later. (1h27m)

got back from PDX yesterday morning.
Nice being back in the Bay. feels like I haven’t been here for a long while.

more updates to come, along with photos.

I be back in San Deezy saturday night.
and then classes start up again the following thursday! :o :/