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POPSLVO ngo balasore orissa india dev4india LVO, aims at fulfilling immediate national objectives at the sectoral project management levels through out the District, with a greater emphasis on the weaker and vulnerable sections of the society.The ultimate goals of LIFE V.O is to bring about advancement of livings, structure and lively farm work. Aims to realize a set of objectives so as to the recreate, renovate, revoke, regenerate, re-establish, rehabilitate, protect and promote advancement of living beings, structure and lively framework.
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POPSNo More Billboards in Xi'an This from the blog of Intelligent Travel: the city of Xi'an has plans to remove billboards from the capital's walls. The move is part of a larger effort to restore Xi'an's heritage by controlling development and population growth.
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POPSPlacemakers - movers and shakers on urban "places" and urban experience. The Placemaking movement was born over forty years ago, when pioneers like Jane Jacobs and William H. Whyte published their groundbreaking ideas about Americans and the urban experience. Back then there was no name for their way of thinking--they simply showed us that cities should be designed for people, with walkable streets, welcoming public spaces, and lively neighborhoods. "Placemaker Profiles" highlights the individuals who have captured our imagination about the need to create great places in every community. By bringing together their valuable stories, key insights, and compelling visions, we hope to share their wisdom with our readers, honor their accomplishments, and acknowledge their profound influence on the Placemaking movement.
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POPSJane Jacobs - Urban planning hero Jacobs had no professional training in the field of city planning, nor did she hold the title of planner. She instead relied on her observations and common sense to illustrate why certain places work, and what can be done to improve those that do not. Together with William H. Whyte, Jacobs led the way in advocating for a place-based, community-centered approach to urban planning, decades before such approaches were considered sensible.
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POPSJane's Walk (Ottawa, Canada)
Who is Jane Jacobs? Edit Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to understanding, organizing, designing, and building cities. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 best-seller, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her later books introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve, and succeed or fail that now seem like common sense to today’s architects, planners, politicians, and activists. Jacobs saw cities as ecosystems with their own dynamics that would evolve over time according to how they were used. With a keen eye for detail, she wrote eloquently about sidewalks, parks, retail design, and self-organization. She promoted higher density, short blocks, local economies, and mixed uses. Jacobs helped derail the car-centred approach to urban planning in both New York City and Toronto, invigorating neighbourhood activism by helping stop the expansion of expr
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POPSWhy Not Build a Lowe's Store In The Everglades? 
The 18,000-square-mile "River of Grass" is not a swamp but a unique and vital ecosystem. In 2000, Florida and federal government embarked on a $10 billion, 20-year project to restore the Everglades: This project would work to fix a half-century's worth of draining, diversion and other damage that development had wreaked on one of the world's most delicate but vital eco-systems, and return it to something like its original state. But post-9/11, the Everglades fell down the priority list of the Bush Administration and Congress alike. Today the project is less than half finished, years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Last year Congress had to override President Bush's veto of a $20 billion water preservation bill that included a sorely needed $2 billion for the Everglades. Letting Lowe's build beyond the UDB could diminish the urgency of the Everglades and welcome more developers to push their way in. This is the time to step up and push back!
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POPSWho is Jane Jacobs? Although almost 90 years old, diminutive in stature, Jane Jacobs was a fervent activist until her death in 2006. She lived for 30 years in the Annex area of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jane is an inspiration to all! Certainly one of my personal heroes.
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POPSJane's Walk Started in 2007 in Toronto and New York City , Jane's Walk is being expanded to 7 more Canadian cities in 2008. Inspired by deceased urban activist, Jane Jacobs -- one of my personal heroes.
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POPSBush To Speak On Reducing Greenhouse Emissions (continued)_Net emissions rise. There also isn't any viable legal instrument that will significantly alter the rate of warming. The Kyoto Protocol, which is pretty much moribund, would reduce surface warming by 0.07 degrees Centigrade every fifty years, an amount too small to measure. Kyoto failed because, by and large, no nation could meet its modest emission reduction targets."
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POPSSmart Growth & Racial Justice An article from 1999, reprinted by Cleveland's community land trust. Mr. Powell raises some great points. I think he simplifies the issue by concentrating only on race, but I also think he has to do that... from where I watch, the issues of race and concentration of poverty almost never surface as elements of a regional planning agenda. For more, read Myron Orfield's "American Metropolitics" and learn how White Fight really happens.
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POPSNew study money portends hope for former Vacuum Oil brownfields “Prime land” it is, so close to the University of Rochester and city-center Rochester. Like so many stretches along the banks of the Genesee, so beautiful and hauntingly desolate, it's hard to imagine downtown could be so close. The River Trail there is one of my favorite spots to skate.
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