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An interesting NYT article about how to deal with an aging population. Now that the leading edge of the baby boom demographic has reached retirement age, and considering the popularity of Florida for retirees, it’s probably time urban designers in Tampa and other Florida cities start designing with older populations in mind. “What people say they [...] Denver is going to attempt another bike-sharing program. The problem with bike-sharing programs, of course, is that the bikes get stolen. Denver hopes to circumvent this by creating special bicycles, with their own special locking bike racks, and require a credit card to “rent” them. These special “b-cycles” will also include RFID chips and GPS [...] Ray LaHood, Obama’s Republican choice for the Department of Transportation, is advocating increasing bicycle and pedestrian accommodations. “I’ll say it again–because I want my online friends in commercial trucking and the people who make their living behind the wheel, to know–we are not out to make their jobs any harder than they already are. “I know [...] The city of Athens is holding a bench design contest, Athens Bench Mark. If your design is selected your bench will be mass-produced and placed all over the city. Here is Tatiana Karapanagioti’s brief bench manifesto. The architecture of a city defines behavior. So we created the World of Athens, an international non-governmental network that acts as a [...] Kyla Fullenwider has a new blog called Walking Distance over at Good. In this post she offers 10 ideas for enhancing the community spirit of your neighborhood. From most challenging to least, here they are. Be sure to click through for the entire post. 1.Turn your front yard into a farm. 2. Start a neighborhood time [...] Local photographer Tom Palmer took a ton of photos at the recent grand opening of the Curtis Hixon park and posted them on his Flickr account. Check them out, they are terrific.
Copyright Tom Palmer. All rights reserved. Here’s an artist’s rendering of the park created during the design process. This urban space has been a contentious [...] Brian Ries at CL’s Daily Loaf reports that a new restaurant is coming to Seminole Heights. Michelle and Greg Baker of the Trib’s Culinary Sherpas and owners of Cook & Company will soon sign the papers to buy a spot in Seminole Heights to open The Refinery. …the new spot will be called The Refinery [...] Wayne Garcia has been advocating that Tampa pay close attention to what other “All-America Cities” are doing. He’s right. This is a great source of best practices Tampa should be learning about, and in some cases, emulating. He’s been tagging his All-America City posts and you can find them here. a manifesto of [...] TJP just pointed out to me that Google Maps has a beta “walking directions” feature. Not only does it provide you with a map, like the regular directions feature, but it also gives you an estimate of the time it would take. For a few months now, in a effort to not spend every single moment [...] This Saturday, July 19, the Seminole Heights Bicycle Club will be riding 16 miles to Chipotle for a free burrito. (Actually, it’s 8 miles there and 8 miles back). “It’s part of Chipotle’s “Le Burrito” promotion because Chipotle has a professional cycling team in the Tour de France this month. We will leave at 10AM from [...] The USF Biking Blog is jealous of St. Pete’s Green Bike Initiative (check your volume at work, some videos launch without prompting). The Green Bike Initiative about page calls for a Public Utility Bike program, but doesn’t really explain what that means. It’s more clearly explained in this St. Pete Times article. The article notes - “Sound familiar? [...] |
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