Improving Access, Increasing Livability: The CTA Red Line South Extension
This online report from the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning highlights the community impacts of extending light rail to Chicago's far South Side. This report provides compelling examples of how an updated, reliable rail transit service would improve life for this Chicago community.
Learn More:www.cmap.illinois.gov/red-line
Evaluating and Conserving Green Infrastructure Across the Landscape: A Practitioner's Guide
The Green Infrastructure Center has released a new planning guide that shows communities how to map their most significant natural resources and how to make plans to conserve or restore them. One version of the guide has been created for Virginia and another for New York. Additional guides will be released later in 2013 for North Carolina and Arkansas.
Learn More:www.gicinc.org/
Quotes
"The number-one fear of people as they age is isolation. They need to be able to get to the doctor, stores, parks, and other public amenities. Cities as a whole need to be asking, 'Are we ready for the demographic change?"
Henry Cisneros, Former Secretary
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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The Call for Session Proposals for
the 2014 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference is now open.
Proposal ideas must be submitted
by July 8, 2013.
www.newpartners.org/cfsp/
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