London is one of the latest big cities to implement a modern bike sharing program. The “cycle scheme” (as they call it in England) is popularly called “Boris Bikes” now, named after London Mayor Boris Johnson. To help show the…
I was just writing earlier on the power of cities and the progressive transportation choices cities can take to turn the world around (environmentally, economically, and otherwise). Looking at this from a different (and perhaps more negative) angle, IBM recently released…
Cities are becoming more powerful than nations. Hopefully, they will use that power for good, not for evil.
![Sunked Garden in Sydney, Australia [Pictures & Video]](http://zacharyshahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/014.jpg "Sunked Garden in Sydney, Australia [Pictures & Video]")
Sydney’s beautiful sunken gardens, Paddington Reservoir Gardens, was just opened to the public.
Rit Aggarwala, who previously led the PlaNYC 2030 sustainability agenda as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability, is off to California to live happily ever after with his new bride. Replacing him in NYC is long-time Portland city and regional planning superstar David Bragdon.
![San Francisco Transbay Transit Center [VIDEO]](http://zacharyshahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/013.jpg "San Francisco Transbay Transit Center [VIDEO]")
Animation of the upcoming Transbay Transit Center (aka Grand Central of the West) that just broke ground on Wednesday.
I decided rather than posting the first part of each article I write on here verbatim that I would start doing a one-article summary once a week of the articles I wrote during the week. We’ll see how this goes.…
I’ve written about parks on Green Living Ideas before, since parks are a key feature of the city that help to keep people living in a much more energy efficient urban environment. Plus, “green living” and “parks” just seem to go…
With a much smaller carbon footprint and much more economic bang for its buck, mixed-use downtown development seems like a win-win development option for cities and counties. Localities across the country, due to the economic problems of the past few…
Water is a finite resource. It may seem abundant when you look at a globe, but the amount of water in the world that can be used for human purposes is not so large. With a real water crisis looming,…