Neighborhood in Transition The West Oakland neighborhood sits just west of downtown Oakland within the bounds of Interstate 580 to the north and Interstate 980 to the east. It is otherwise surrounded by Interstate 880 and by land owned by the Port of Oakland on the south and west ends. This residential neighborhood with many
Arts Community Jingletown, also known as the North Kennedy Tract, is a small arts community in Fruitvale, East Oakland, located adjacent to the Oakland Estuary and bordered by the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880) and the Park Street and Fruitvale bridges. Jingletown was the site of a Costanoan shellmound, and later grew up into a majority
Convenient access to open space, community-driven revival The Dimond is centered at the intersection of Fruitvale Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. Before Interstate 580 was built, the borders were roughly School Street to the west, the Montclair Driving Range to the east, Park Avenue / City of Piedmont to the north and Lincoln Boulevard to the
10 Great Novels every urbanist should read, Anna Clark. Selected fiction: failures and possibilities of city planning. Page 1 Plan-it sustainably, Scott T. Edmondson, AICP. APA’s new Sustainability Champion program. Page 4 Boomers, Millennials, and changing demographics. Melissa Ruhl reports on SJSU symposium: the sharing economy, transportation, and housing. Page 6 Who’s where. Mark Brodeur;
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Stream 5 – Pushing the Boundaries: Net Positive Buildings (SB13), CaGBC National Conference and Expo, Vancouver BC, June 4-6, 2013 D. Waldron, Synapse Strategies/University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada A. Cayuela, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada D. Miller, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada ABSTRACT: Emerging approaches support regenerative design and development at the
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Plan-it sustainably By Scott T. Edmondson, AICP, Northern News, September 2014 A peek into the future of planning and sustainable urban development tools What if SimCity were more than just a video game and you could imagine your city in the future, apply real-life zoning standards, and whip up 3D visualization of the resulting urban
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Next class, Feb/May 2015. Applications due by Jan. 9, 2015. Click here for information.
Introduction to Strategic Sustainability – An On-Line Distance Course Read More »
This past summer, APA’s Sustainable Communities Division (SCD) launched a sustainability leadership pilot program: the APA State Chapter Sustainability Champion program. The Division sought nominations and selected champions this past August and September. I was one of 10 champions chosen and look forward to working with Hing Wong, APA California’s President Elect, in beginning to develop
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University of California, Rm 106 Wurster Hall, Berkeley, 11:30am-2:30pm. CM | self-report option (1-4 credits) Come hear the final UCB class assessment and recommendations of a SWOT analysis of our One Bay Plan Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) on local sustainability planning in 11 Bay Area Cities: Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Mountain View, Oakland, Petaluma, Richmond,
Regional-Local Sustainability Planning in 11 Bay Area Cities Read More »
Northern News invites you to submit photos for its magazine cover and for its “Where in the world” feature. The newsletter uses a cover photo and a WITW photo 10 times each year. Cover photos will be cropped to square format and should be at least 3000 pixels wide. The subject can be anything of
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