Category Archive: Online Resources

City of Raleigh implements cost share for water quality devices!

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Stop procrastinating. Install that cistern, rain garden, or impervious driveway that you’ve been thinking about and have the City of Raleigh pay for half of it. I stumbled across this information a while… Read More

Webinar, Livability in the Mid-Atlantic Region

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Livability in the Mid-Atlantic Region WEBINARS     Mid-Atlantic Transportation Webinar Series EVENT DETAILS DATE: Jun 9, 2011 TIME: 12:00 PM –1:30 PM (EDT) PRESENTER: Harrison Rue PLACE: Webinar The mid-Atlantic region is rich with… Read More

Get Ready for Street Slide

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Microsoft always seems to be a few steps behind Google, but when they finally catch up they usually bring something good.  I’m a big fan of Bing and look forward to Street Slide… Read More

IBM INNOV8: CityOne

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One way to burn the last hours of your vacation… CityOne: A Smarter Planet game Think you know what it takes to make the energy systems that serve a city more efficient? Given… Read More

“Challenging the Default” at NCSU with Alan Berger – “Exterial Landscapes”

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Monday night’s lecture by Alan Berger, associate professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from MIT, entitled “Exterial Landscapes” is now available (for free!) not available at NCSU’s College of Design’s iTunes U… Read More

Repaving the Road for Electric Vehicles

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http://www.afdc.energy.gov/cleancities/ccn/pdfs/48628.pdf Clean Cities Now Repaving the Road for Electric Vehicles Renewed interest in electric vehicles at the local and national level has government officials, automakers, and other original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) asking what… Read More

Video and Tutorial Help Users Prepare for Launch of New American FactFinder

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Video and Tutorial Help Data Users Prepare for Launch of Census Bureau’s New American FactFinder In January 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau plans to launch a revamped version of its data delivery tool,… Read More

Open Source Design Software Options

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If your trying to put together a quiver of computer design programs on the cheap, here is a list compiled by Chad M. Wade, RLA.  I’ve used OpenOffice with success, but can’t vouch… Read More

NC State/UNC Team Wins Top Prize In 2010 ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition

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NC State/UNC Team Wins Top Prize In 2010 ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition A team of students representing North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill has… Read More

Onion Space

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http://www.state.gov/opinionspace/ Ignoring the foreign policy content,  this technology clearly has  community design/landscape architecture applications.  And reliance on crowd-sourced data is an inevitability in public decision making.   So does it help people understand their differences, or… Read More

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