The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working on a multi-year project to digitize the country’s floodzones and redefine flood boundaries in order to update and increase the accuracy of its Flood Insurance Rate Maps, according to an article in USA Today. Read the rest of this entry »
If adopted, new public transportation plan will guide land use and growth
City council staffers in Ottowa are advising council members to postpone or possibly abandon hundreds of millions of dollars in road projects in order to redirect money toward the city’s new master transportation plan, which emphasizes mass transit over roads, according to an article in the Ottawa Citizen. Read the rest of this entry »
Mike Lydon of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company reports on the Congress for the New Urbanism’s recent Transport Summit in a recent Planetizen.com article Read the rest of this entry »
Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer thinks that with the right economic and environmental policy approach – a transformational one that centers on strategic investments in a sustainable infrastructure – an Obama administration can create a kind of change that will “Rebuild and Renew America.” Read the rest of this entry »
A recent paper by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Introduction to Multi-Modal Transportation Planning: Principles and Practices, summarizes basic principles for transportation planning. Read the rest of this entry »
Projects that are making the New York’s streets more livable
New York City’s Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn speaks with Mark Gorton, Executive Director of The Open Planning Project, in a recent Streetfilms video where they discuss changes that the department is making to New York’s streets to make them friendlier for bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit users. Read the rest of this entry »
Declining supply will fall far short of world’s increasing oil needs, says report
The 2008 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), provides a number of different scenarios for the projected impacts of fossil fuel production, energy consumption, and carbon emissions if different government policy options are adopted and implemented. Read the rest of this entry »
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) are hosting a public comments meeting on December 1 for residents to express their views and concerns about transportation planning in the Houston-Galveston Region. Read the rest of this entry »
The internationally-recognized LEED green building certification program has been updated as LEED 2009. This new version of the existing rating system for commercial buildings has passed member ballot and will be introduced in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
There will be no Livable Houston meeting in November. The announcement for December’s meeting will appear in upcoming newsletters.
