Editor's Picks #257

2012-04-01T14:09:00-04:00

Back in 2009 SOM's City Design Practice took a comprehensive look at the the entire Great Lakes Lakes and the St. Lawrence, ecosystem and proposed The Great Lakes Century, a pro bono initiative - to begin a broad-based, bi-national dialogue. Reed Webster wrote that his "masters project was dealing with some of the same issues." His project waterWORKS was designed as a piece of a larger green-infrastructure plan for Traverse City, Michigan.

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Newly released numbers from the Census Bureau say Angelenos are living in the nation's most densely-populated urban area. New York still has the highest population, but at 7,000 people per square mile, the Los Angeles/Anaheim/Long Beach area takes the density prize. In light of these new numbers it is interesting to read about how a Facelift Project for Hollywood Stirs Divisions. Essentially some Angelenos are resisting efforts to rezone and allow/encourage TOD and higher density. They fear that a switch to tall towers, in effect making LA more "urban" would ruin the character of their neighborhoods and would be a boon to real estate developers rather than locals. jlarch argued "Density alone is not the answer. Native American tribes were very low density, but also very sustainable. Everyone seems to just jump on the density idea as if it is a proven fix to all of societies problems" while Will Galloway explained "its because new york has lots of low density suburbs offsetti...

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Editor's Picks #257