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The Secrets of Successful Communities – Part 6: Pay Attention…

The sixth installment of Ed McMahon’s “Secrets of Successful Communities” series considers the important role that community aesthetics play in development.

Blue Space: How Water Features Improve Our Cities and Lives

What Is Blue Space? Blue space refers to visible water features, in much the same way that green space refers to visible greenery. Both natural and man-made water…

What Is Urban Sprawl?

If you’ve sat in traffic during your morning commute and wished for something better, you’ve felt the effects of urban sprawl first-hand. Here’s how urban sprawl is defined…

Charging Your Electric Vehicle in the U.S.- Scenic Concerns

Sometime between 1832 and 1839, inventor Robert Anderson puttered down a nameless Scottish street in a crude electric carriage. It took years for the electric vehicle to become…

Energy Equity: A Scenic Concern

The term “energy equity” is generating a lot of buzz these days as people become increasingly aware of how disadvantaged communities are disproportionately impacted by pollution, a lack…

Visual Pollution and the Preservation of Aesthetic Places

Aesthetics has become a widely-used concept nowadays, from your “Instagram aesthetic” to your personal fashion aesthetic. But America’s most alluring places have aesthetics of their own—beauty that is…

We Don’t Need Another Big Glass Box – Letter to…

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette printed the Letter to the Editor by our Assistant Director, Dave Demko, on Friday, February 28. You can read the original here, but we also…