Revitalization, regions, neighborhoods, equity, preservation, transportation, sustainability, and more: October-November blog highlights

Here are this blog’s highlights over the last six weeks or so.  Thank you so much for reading and your support:

• Innovative East LA high school features urban planning and community engagement (November 19, 2010)
• US homes are right-sizing and greening (November 18, 2010)
• The greening of professional sports (November 17, 2010)
• Builders of Hope creates community through innovative approach to preservation, sustainability, jobs and affordable housing (November 16, 2010)
• Hilarious video on gated community versus smart growth (+ an extra on 'kayak-oriented development') (November 15, 2010)
• Data confirm lack of supermarket access in poor neighborhoods (November 11, 2010)
• Bikes I have enjoyed photographing (November 12, 2010)
• Leaving Las Vegas: facts and images from the desert mega-bust (November 9, 2010)
• Gallup: nearly 4 in 10 Americans fear walking alone at night (November 10, 2010)
• Ventura video illustrates planning for connection, walkability, quality (November 8, 2010)
• Show and tell Good magazine why your bus route is the best in America (November 5, 2010)
• "Equity is the way forward" - discussions on race and America's future (November 4, 2010)
• Sustainable places: where the healing can begin (November 3, 2010)
• Apple invests in public transit - with impressive, stylish results (November 2, 2010)
• "Cities" may not matter as much as we think - regions and neighborhoods are where things actually happen (November 1, 2010)
• Dignity by design: rebuilding a historic neighborhood where some risked all for their humanity (October 28, 2010)
• The night the 'burbs come to town (reprise) (October 29, 2010)
• Brilliant use of GIS to show impacts of discrimination, disinvestment & sprawl (October 27, 2010)
• A family copes with the unexpected costs of sprawl (video) (October 26, 2010)
• Great for Prince George's to (finally) get a Wegmans. But . . . (October 25, 2010)
• A very impressive two weeks for the federal sustainability partnership (October 22, 2010)
• The earth ship has landed (October 21, 2010)
• The Sustainable Cities Collective (October 20, 2010)
• Massive database provides a wealth of information to support transit-oriented development (October 18, 2010)
• Remaking a suburb for the creative class (October 21, 2010)
• Want to walk to school? Laguna Beach says nope, not here (October 19, 2010)
• The ten worst things about sprawl (October 18, 2010)
• The long and winding road that made me an environmentalist (October 15, 2010)
• Images of hope from a town where 'reinvention is the only option' (Braddock, Part 2) (October 14, 2010)
• Haunting images of a fallen town, 'large enough to matter, small enough to impact' (Braddock, Part 1) (October 13, 2010)
• America's favorite farmers' markets (October 12, 2010)
• A garden for the elderly fosters a personal brand of sustainability (October 11, 2010)
• Imaginative suburban retrofits among winners in 'Build a Better Burb' contest (October 8, 2010)
• Nice short video on walkable street design (October 7, 2010)
• Industry survey confirms developers shifting to smart growth (October 6, 2010)
• In the wake of the spill, planning for resilience (October 5, 2010)
• We're losing an acre of farmland every minute, according to new data (October 4, 2010)
• Striking images of disconnected streets and unwanted sprawl (October 1, 2010)

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