Tag: policy
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Energy-Efficient Design
Why Aren’t There More Energy-Efficient Buildings? CityLab, Oct. 22, 2015 For the fifth year running, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has crunched the numbers on its national sustainability challenge, the AIA 2030 Commitment. Architects who sign up pledge to strive to meet an ambitious energy-efficiency target in their designs—a 60 percent reduction in predicted energy-use…
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Un/Fair Use Review
The Unexpected History Behind “Un/Fair Use” An exhibit at the Center for Architecture in New York explores the tricky question of copyright in architecture. Architect, October 2015 Is the design of a finished building protected under copyright law? Before 1990, the answer was no. If you were an architect and someone copied your drawings, you…
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Cities and Child Care
How Cities and Counties Are Taking the Lead on Child Care CityLab, May 19, 2015 America is waking up to child care as a major political issue. Back in January, President Obama discussed it at length for the first time in his State of the Union address. “In today’s economy, when having both parents in…
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Free-Range Kids & the Law
The Murky Law on Free-Range Kids CityLab, April 17, 2015 On April 12, it happened again: Rafi and Dvora Meitiv, the “free-range kids” of Silver Spring, Maryland, were picked up and detained by police. The siblings, aged 10 and six, were playing unsupervised in their neighborhood when a man walking his dog spotted them and…
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Germany’s Car-Sharing Paradise
How Bremen, Germany, Became a Car-Sharing Paradise CityLab, Dec. 11, 2014 Bremen, in Northwestern Germany, could not be described as car-dependent in the North American sense of the term. In this city of 550,000, most daily journeys happen on mass transit (14 percent of all trips), on foot (20 percent), or by bike (25 percent).…
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