Christmas is a wonderful time to inspire others. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. Christmas is happiness because we see joy in people. Christmas is forgetting self and finding time for others. Christmas is all about family and friends. Christmas is the season of giving. The post A Season of…
A Season of Giving — Orlando Espinosa
Design and development are fundamental to how we experience our neighborhoods. Today, we continue to live with the devastating impacts of historic decisions regarding land-use and zoning — such as segregation, redlining, and highway construction. Far too often, systemic racism is still embedded in planning decisions today. Decisions on where development goes, what it looks like and how fast it happens, whose input is solicited, and whose is ignored, where we place industry, how we plan for transit corridors to ensure connectivity and mobility, and how we expand access to healthy food are all a result of how we imagine, design and plan in our communities. In addition, there are policies that impact how safe, supported, and empowered communities feel — which has everything to do with what people need to thrive.
Functional zoning or functional city zoning is a method used for dividing land use by its function. Typically, land use is divided in two ways, by its function and by its physical characteristics. An example of functional zoning would be an area that has designated zones based on a function such as an industrial zone, a recreational zone and a residential zone. An example of an area zoned by its physical characteristics is defined in terms of characteristics like development density, minimum lot size, and building coverage, placement and height.
Although cities as we know them occupy the same location for centuries, the physical infrastructure which comprise the built environment are not static but altered continuously by dynamic forces of change initiated by various public and private interests. This modification of the urban environment occurs at a variety of scales ranging from the residential relocation decisions taken on different levels including public road-building programmes and private house projects .
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Photo by Gustav Lundborg on Pexels.comBy Sharon St Joan The message of Jesus Christ has little to do with some aspects of modern-day Christianity. His was a message of love and peace. This extended to animals. In the final days of his life, he freed the doves in the temple from the cages where they…
The message of Jesus Chris — Echoes in the Mist
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The trouble is, the impossibility won’t stop the pursuit.
By Robert Lyman and Dr. Jay Lehr~
Prodded by the United Nations and numerous radical environmentalist organizations, many industrialized countries have declared that their policy goal is to phase out the use of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal) and to replace them with all-electric energy systems powered by renewable energy. Unfortunately, most people in those countries do not understand the magnitude of the physical, economic and social changes that would be entailed in such a transition. Adding to the immensity of this challenge, many governments have declared that it must be achieved in almost all countries by 2050, just over 27 years from now. This is the so-called “decarbonization” or “net-zero” goal.
Many prominent experts have attempted to analyze from a macro-economic, or top-down perspective the costs of attaining…
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