WCD : News http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_landing.php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:33:31 +0100 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=47 The Urban Market, once on life support, is alive and well in downtown Dallas. 07/29/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=46 Can urban areas grow their own food? 07/22/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=45 Under the cover of darkness vigilantes start planting. 07/17/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=44 Cities and their surrounding suburbs are the new building blocks of an economy both global and local. 07/02/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=43 \"Many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and affluent today, may become what inner cities became in the 1960s and \'70s - slums characterized by poverty, crime and decay,\" said Christopher Leinberger, an urban land use expert 06/25/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=42 What happens when \"instant\" communities erupt like crowds at a sporting event or refugee camps after a disaster? 06/13/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=41 Planned Palestinian City in West Bank Faces Hurdles 06/06/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=40 Instead of following the trend of many empty nesters moving back to the urban core, or buying into development driven planned communities, some are looking to shape their own retirement experience. 05/22/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=38 High Street Residential (a division of the Trammell Crow Company) has begun construction on the Midtown Commons project. 05/15/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=39 \"Money alone – whether it comes from tolls, taxes or both – won\'t solve traffic problems in North Texas, and it won\'t be enough to repair America\'s aging infrastructure.\" - ULI 05/14/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=37 The \"Land and Sea\" competition from IDA selected ZM Architecture and their \"Lillies\" project as the winners of the professional architecture category. 05/13/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=36 \"Atlanta resident Malaika Taylor used to live the typical suburban life — the kind that helps make America the world\'s top contributor to climate change. But four years ago, fed up with commuting, Taylor and her 11-year old daughter, Maya, moved from the suburbs to the city...\" 05/03/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=35 The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) showcases many new and emerging technologies. This year the main focus of the show clearly centered on green and sustainable technologies and what companies were doing to embrace this in both their consumer electronics and their facilities operations. 03/17/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=34 In a tough San Francisco neighborhood, the working poor get a handsome courtyard and a sunny roof space for their own plots. This article, that was published by Landscape Architecture, in Feb 01, 2008, looks at how landscape architects have combined green roofs, public spaces and affordable housing to address the chronic homelessness in San Francisco\'s “infamous Tenderloin district”. 02/07/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=26 The Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington has a Graduate design studio focusing on redevelopment opportunities for North Dallas. 01/31/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=31 Oakland to open GREEN Homeless Shelter. \"The facility, Crossroads, which will accommodate 125 residents, may be the only “green” homeless shelter built from the ground up. It has a solar-paneled roof, hydronic heating, artful but practical ceiling fans, nontoxic paint, windows that can be opened to let in fresh air, and desks and bureaus made from pressed wheat.\" 01/30/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=30 This article from The New York Times looks at renovation of older buildings to achieve greater energy efficiency, and how this trend has seen a rise in popularity in recent years. 01/29/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=25 The Revision3 podcast SYSTM this week takes a tour of the construction of the technological and sustainable innovation being implemented at WIRED Magazine\'s Living Home Exhibit in Los Angeles. 01/19/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=29 \"As we look beyond housing solutions to urban poverty, good design is enjoying a second coming as the cure for what ails us.\" 01/17/2008 http://www.wholecommunitydesign.com/newsLinks/newsLinks_article.php?id=24 Nanosolar, a company with the stated mission of reducing the cost of solar technology, ships their first panels. 01/11/2008