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Recent posts

• Defining the Alamo
• Better Block comes to San Antonio
• The cost of fracking
• Pocket neighborhoods in San Antonio
• Centralized Solar
• Placemaking in Texas
• Banks of the Ohio
• Wanderings
• Geoffrey West on the scaling of cities
• “Our private hall of flattering mirrors”

Topics

• Buildings (2)
• Downtown (4)
• Energy (2)
• Exploring (4)
• Facebook (3)
• Meta (3)
• Midtown (1)
• Public space (11)
• Redevelopment (6)
• Regulations (3)
• Suburbs (1)
• Theory (5)
• Transit (4)

Subjects

General resources

• America 2050
• Project for Public Spaces
• State of Metropolitan America
• Urban Institute: Cities & Neighborhoods

Good blogs

• Austin Contrarian
• BLDGBLOG
• Discovering Urbanism
• Emergent Urbanism
• Kaid Benfield
• Market Urbanism
• Streetsblog
• Systemic Failure
• The Bellows
• The Urbanophile
• Transportation Nation
• Urban Land

Reports

• Major Solar Projects (SEIA)
• Rethinking American Transportation (Brookings)
• Solar Jobs Census, 2011 (Solar Foundation)
• Virginia Tech Capital Bikeshare Study

San Antonio resources

• City Council Agenda
• Edwards Aquifer Library
• Midtown Brackenridge
• Public Art San Antonio
• SA2020
• San Antonio River Authority Library
• SmartWay SA
• Unified Development Code

Research (my Evernote clips)

• The Quest for High-Tech Solutions in New Mexico “Ghost City” – Next American City
• American consumers prepared to pay more for clean energy | Ars Technica
• EPA's New Fracking Rules On Emissions Strike Tricky Balance | TPM Livewire
• Do food deserts matter? Do they even exist? – The Washington Post
• Should Miraflores be a park or a museum?
• Are Some Buildings Too Ugly to Survive? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com
• In Texas, a revolt brews against standardized testing – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
• Study: alternative energy has barely displaced fossil fuels
• Counting the cost: the hidden price of coal power
• Twin Creeks Aims To Cut Solar Panel Cost In Half | TPM Idea Lab
• Ideas presented for a redesigned Alamo Plaza – San Antonio Express-News
• Campaign highlights historical ‘power' – San Antonio Express-News
• Tragedy spawns new, unique outdoor venue – San Antonio Express-News
• Rezoning efforts take the first step – San Antonio Express-News
• Alta Devices, Maker of Highest Efficiency Solar Panel, Working With Military | TPM Idea Lab
• Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: A Low-Cost, High-Impact Approach « Project for Public Spaces – Placemaking for Communities
• Darden Restaurants dedicates Florida's largest privately owned solar-energy plant. – OrlandoSentinel.com
• How Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Interventions Can Catalyze City-Wide Renewal « Project for Public Spaces – Placemaking for Communities
• Better block initiatives
• Virginia Tech Capital Bikeshare Study