Free Movie Tonight at Urban Green Build – “Blueprint America: Road to the Future”
Urban Green Build’s free urbanism & sustainability movie series returns tonight after a snow delay last week. Up for viewing is PBS’s Blueprint America: Road to the Future.
Blueprint America: Road to the Future, an original documentary part of a PBS multi-platform series on the country’s aging and changing infrastructure, goes to three very different American cities [...]
Portland: A Passion for Sustainability, Tonight at Urban Green Build
Just a reminder – Urban Green Build at 1244 College Avenue (2nd floor at College & Magnolia, above the police station and Mamma Mia, across the hall from the Salon Upstairs) will be showing Portland: A Passion for Sustainability, tonight at 7:00 PM. See how Portland, Oregon has adopted strong frameworks to create a sustainable [...]
Read more »Lawrence Halprin, Heritage Park Designer, Dies
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, one of the most creative voices in designing urban public space, passed away on Sunday at his home in California at the age of 93 from complications from a fall.
Halprin was a prolific designer, and created some of the most unique modernist public spaces in the United States. He studied [...]
Visiting DART's Green Line
We recently took at trip to Dallas to check out the first phase of DART’s new Green Line, the latest expansion to their light rail network. It’s instructive to see what other cities are doing with their rail transit operations, and since we don’t really have any in Fort Worth to take photos of [...]
Read more »Fort Worthology goes to Portland, Part Six: Small-Scale Infill
In today’s Portland post, we’ll be looking at some small-scale infill buildings that caught our eye.
Here in Fort Worth, we’ve seen our fair share of large-scall infill, like the developments along West 7th – large buildings on multiple blocks in a very “planned” sort of fashion. What we haven’t seen a lot of yet [...]
Read more »Fort Worthology goes to Portland, Part Five: Food Carts
In today’s post on Portland, Oregon from a Fort Worth-based urbanism perspective, we’re taking a look at one of the smaller pieces of Portland urbanism, but one which we thought was pretty cool indeed:
Food carts.
Yes, the humble food cart. We’re sure some of you are questioning our sanity at this point – what’s so [...]
Read more »Fort Worthology goes to Portland, Part Four: Parks, Plazas, and Squares
Taking another look at Portland from an urbanism perspective, and following up from last week’s post on the Ira Keller Fountain, today we’ll be examining some of the other parks and plazas in urban Portland.
Urban public space is another thing that Portland seems to take pretty seriously. As you wander through the city, it [...]
Fort Worthology goes to Portland, Part Three: Ira Keller Fountain
It’s time for our next Portland post. Today, we’re going to shift gears just a bit, and take a trip away from the larger-scale posts to examine something very specific – the Ira Keller Fountain. We’ll have another post next week with more about Portland’s parks and plazas in general, along with more [...]
Read more »Fort Worthology goes to Portland, Part Two: Bicycling
In today’s Portland post, we’re going to talk about bicycling in the Rose City, including our meet-up with fellow urbanism blogger Elly Blue of BikePortland.org.
(Note: this post contains video from our friends at StreetFilms, a fellow member of the StreetsBlog Network that Fort Worthology is part of. Clarence and the gang at StreetFilms do [...]
Fort Worthology goes to Portland, Part One: Transit
And now, the beginning of a series of posts detailing our recent exploratory trip to Portland, Oregon – it’s Part One of “Fort Worthology goes to Portland.”
In today’s installment, we’ll be taking a look at Portland’s transit systems, including the much-talked-about Portland Streetcar.
We’ve been big supporters of the Fort Worth Streetcar proposal since Day One, [...]
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