Reinventing public investment for a greener Chicago region-
The final installment of the MPC-CAF summer discussion series, "Reinventing Public Investment," focused on opportunities for more environmentally and economically sustainable energy, drinking water, and wastewater policies.
- Reinventing investment for a more livable Chicago region
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The second event of the MPC-CAF summer discussion series, "Reinventing Public Investment", focused on how federal policies in housing, transportation and economic development have shaped decisions and community development in the Chicago Region.
- Conservation easements still the way to go for agricultural preservation
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- Illinois Senate Bill 286, which would have empowered county governments to create farmland preservation easement programs, died in the House on May 7, 2009. One argument against easements is that zoning is an effective tool to preserve farms. MPC offers a handful of reasons to the contrary.
Transit Innovation: Public Transit in the City of Tomorrow-
- Every two weeks, MPC uncovers best practices from around the world and delivers them right to your inbox in Talking Transit. This week, MPC examines Masdar, a city being built from the ground up in the United Arab Emirates, as the world’s first car-free, emissions-free city.
- Transit Innovation: Transit-Oriented Development in Fruitvale
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- Every two weeks, MPC uncovers best practices from around the world and delivers them right to your inbox in Talking Transit. This week, MPC uncovers the building blocks for a successful transit-oriented development in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood.
- You say you want a Rail~Volution
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- Annual conference brings together transportation and land use experts from around the country.
- Great Chicagoland Places
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MPC continues to advocate for community-planned and programmed public places in the Chicago region. Check out www.placemakingchicago.com for more information.
- Innovations in Transit: Light Rail Systems
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- Many industry experts consider light rail transit to be the modern day streetcar.
- MPC's New Year's resolutions
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- MPC staff share their plans for strengthening the region, and the organization, in 2008
- Neighbors making a difference
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- By Guest Author
- Oct 3, 2007
- Guest article about placemaking by Jay Walljasper. "My hope that day was to showcase inspiring examples of how everyday citizens made tremendous improvements in the place they call home by putting their heads together with neighbors to conceive new ideas for their neighborhoods and then rolling up their sleeves to put these into action. ..."