Four years ago, I ran for Mountain View City Council to address the housing crisis, protect renters from displacement, improve bicycle and pedestrian safety, and help make local government more accessible and responsive to residents. With the support of the voters, that campaign was successful, an...
The leader of a London borough council is tired of abandoned dockless ebikes littering the streets and teenagers zooming along the sidewalks,and wants to have all Lime bikes crushed.Just wait until he learns about all the cars blocking sidewalks and bike lanes, and drivers zooming down the stre...
The pursuit of an ideal city has long been a topic of debate among architects and urban planners. In addition to aesthetic identity and cultural heritage, the quality of life in every city represents perhaps the most important marker in this pursuit. This year, the Economist Intelligence Unit ...
Bristol Development Framework Core Strategy; Bristol’s Sustainable City Strategy; Bristol’s Parks and Green Spaces Strategy The Council's recognition of land's social and ecological values Over £17 million Statutory Authority, NGOs Not provided NBS for climate resilience and pollution control Bud...
the plan seemed to be an easy one for the City Council, as the city of Mountain View will incur no expenses for the Wi-Fi network and actually stands to gain financially from the deal, according to a document on the City Council Web site outlining the item on Tuesday’s meeting agenda...
For broad topic agenda item, it might even be a couple dozen individuals.The Mountain View city council's iPad program piloted a bit after the original iPad launch and included about a third of the council members, plus the director of IT. One council member used her own pers...
Many households mark the end of the winter months with a thorough spring cleaning, and Asheville City Council may be in a similar mood. Listed on the body’s agenda for Tuesday, March 22, is a presentation from Assistant City Manager Rachel Wood about Asheville’s “community cleanliness ...
But very recently the attention has been directed towards the revival of urban public spaces in response to the adapted urban development sustainability agenda by the UAE’s local and federal governments. As a result, the ‘CityWalk’ has started to gradually emerge as a new urban form in the...
of fear on City Council. More panic on the Council’s part about up-zones or new land use strategy hands the NIMBYs victories now and then, enabling them to blow up individual projects. But the NIMBYs have no vision either; they have no concept of the city’s future ...
The UCC has been on the BJP's agenda nationally for many years. But the party's government in Uttarakhand became the first to take a concrete step towards implementing it just before the Lok Sabha elections last year. Now, the UCC Act of Uttarakhand might serve as a template for other ...