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Resort Development Made Easy
Mr. Clive Jones, Principal of Knowledge Based Consulting Group in San Francisco, which specializes in economics of destination resorts encouraged me to write a few lines about the tourism industry and...
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We’re Catching On.
I am pleased to see that we have some garnered some recognition from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to their website, "Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around...
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Urban Recreation - A Whole New Game
City parks and recreation along with economic development departments need to challenge developers and encourage new variations of traditional forms of recreation to fit into our downtowns.Trends have...
View ArticleA Huge Urban Planning Gap Exists in Our Country. Here Are the Facts to Prove It:
Major Uses of Land in the United States in 2007 According to the US Department of Agriculture, the United States’ land area totals nearly 2.3 billion acres. - 2% (56M acres) of US lands are...
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Lessons on Sustainability from Samso Island’s Energy Academy
In such downtrodden times, we find ourselves at a confluence of daily headlines on energy and economy. But for now, this information just seems to flow by and barely touch. I have been wondering how we...
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An Optimistic Future for New Homes
Next round for home builders. The land development industry was one of the first to feel the effects of the US recession as home builders quickly dumped all of their raw property almost a year ago. But...
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Online Land Planning Wins Top Honors in Business Competition under Most...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Dalan Garcia, Brand ManagementOnline Land Planning, LLC 001 (909) 6311garcia@onlinelandplanning.comStartupNation Honors Nation’s Top Home-Based Businesses Online Land...
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Clustered Neighborhood Home Offices (NHO)
Between the Home and the Office According to author and syndicated columnist, Ilyce Glink, today about 20 percent of Americans work from home and that number is expected to double very shortly....
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Charter Schools - A Worthy Tenant for Empty Department Stores
With the 2008 – 2009 demise and eventual transition of several anchor department stores in large regional shopping centers, it was interesting to have a conversation with Dr. Chris Jones, an...
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Retrofit Neighborhoods – Not Just Infill
While the Government stimulus package calls for massive upgrades and retrofits to make hundreds of thousands of buildings more energy efficient, we should take time to look out these windows before...
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How Slumdogs Can Influence Millionaires
About ten year ago, while in Mumbai for a large urban planning assignment, my client’s car was about to round the bend on an elevated road along the outskirts of the city. It was getting near sunset....
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The Hornery Institute & Inner-Urban Suburbs
On a recent business trip to Australia, I had the opportunity to visit with an interesting group of social planners called The Hornery Institute. Specifically, their charter is "to assist communities...
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The Future of the Highway Trust Fund
HTF money should not be used for implementation of non-highway transportation projects at this time. Instead, we should allocate a portion of the Fund to identify and purchase right-of-way corridors...
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Potential Energy & Renewable Resource Mapping - PERRM™
One important planning approach for sustainable living is how to locate and integrate the natural and man-made attributes of the land to configure a low-carbon site for large scale development. Steven...
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Portland: A Rose By Any Other Name
Every real estate developer and urban planner knows that Portland, Oregon rocks. It is probably our best civic example in the United States of defining a comprehensive growth strategy for its citizens...
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24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference & Exhibition
The world’s largest solar PV conference was held September 21-25, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. I had a chance to attend and used the event as an opportunity to understand the key players, learn about new...
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Value-Based Land Planning – A Lesson Learned
In 2004, I had the opportunity to help a land owner plan a 30 acre parcel of land in Las Vegas just off the Strip and behind the MGM Grand Hotel. The parcel was zoned for casino uses and also had...
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The Beauty of India
China no longer needs our help. It took 20 years took to get to that point, but my last two trips there have left the impression that US architects and planners have given the Chinese the most...
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Bringing New Value to Wastewater
Much of the inefficiency surrounding our use and misuse of water derive from entrenched habits formed during previous eras of presumed inexhaustibility of water supplies. Our wastewater treatment...
View ArticleSustainability Allows Us to Manufacture Time
Go ahead, define sustainability. Everyone knows countless, tangled and unconvincing definitions for this word which is quickly losing steam. The problem is that we’re not sure about how...
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