Eric Lombardi’s Zero Waste Park

Julia Steinberger
August 25, 2008 11:17 AM
Eric Lombardi, the waste-management guru behind Boulder, Colo.-based recycler Eco-Cycle, is fighting incinerators around the world with a vision. Although his Zero-Waste Park may never be built, he has been able to use the artistic plan as an effective tool for discussion that has allowed city planners to consider alternative [...]

Letters to Editor | LFP | Green Space

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Letters to Editor | London Development Concerns

Hello,

As a resident of Hale Street living near the southern end of the street, I am opposed to the construction of a railway overpass at Hale and Trafalgar.  Our street is too busy as it is and creating another quick and easy route to Hamilton Road (and thus to the 401) will just [...]

Your City Council Could Save the World

Meeting the 2030 Challenge Through Building Codes provides an unprecedented and much-anticipated guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge.
Read the white paper here.
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Report | Commercial Market and Supply Analysis | London

City-Wide Commercial lands inventory [done as a backgrounder for the recent official plan review].
For the full report: market_supply_and_demand_analysis
Re: Commercial Market and Supply Analysis
UrbanMetrics inc. in association with Meridian Planning Consultants Inc. and bmi/pace are
pleased to provide you with this Commercial Market and Supply Analysis. This study
comprises one of five component studies in the City of [...]

appropriate urban design: all of our responsibility

Dear Mayor Dicicco-Best, Dear Councillor Bryant, and other members of the Planning Committee,
I am writing to you to express my personal opposition as a London resident and taxpayer to the proposal to rezone the plot of land at
168 Meadowlily Rd. S. to become a commercial retail development. Such a proposal is inappropriate given the adjacent [...]

Letter to Planning RE: Meadowlily | July 30th 2008

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Ms. Nancy Pasato
Planning and Zoning Committee
City of London, Ontario

30 July 2008

Ms. Pasato,

As a result of your presentation last night at the town hall meeting at Summerside Community Church, I am emailing you regarding my concerns about development in the Meadowlily Road, South corridor and about Meadowlily Woods Environmentally Significant Area adjacent to [...]

Meadowlily Public Meeting [August 29th] – Planning Dep’t Comments

Based on comments at the public meeting Tuesday, please see the attached link to all the technical studies submitted for this application:

http://www.london.ca/d.aspx?s=/Planning/oz-7430application.htm
If members are trying to locate it on the website without the link – please try “City Hall”, “City Hall Departments”, “Land Use Planning”, “Possible Land Use Changes”, select “M-S” and [...]

City of London Website – Position on Growth

http://www.clear.london.ca/Urban_Planning.html#UrbanPlanning
Urban Planning & Smart Growth
Introduction – Why Is This Topic Of Interest?
Why Do We Need To Grow Smart?
Did You Know…
Urban Planning Indicators
Introduction – Why Is This Topic Of Interest?
Because it’s about where and how we live and how that environment can and should change.
Urban Planning: The City of [...]

A New Urban Agenda

Written by Neil Fraser

Monday, 21 July 2008

A new book calls for a new urban agenda, recognising that what makes cities vital in the 21st century are complexity, density, diversity of people and cultures, the messy intersection of activities, among others.
THE Urban Age Project was developed primarily [...]