{"id":1840,"date":"2009-09-29T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T03:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2009-09-29T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T04:02:25","slug":"is-life-better-in-cascadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/09\/29\/is-life-better-in-cascadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Life Better in…Cascadia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CascadiaMap\"The Sightline Institute<\/a><\/strong> has reports and maps on sustainable regional development. \u00a0They have a Cascadia Scorecard<\/a><\/strong> that tracks cities along seven key dimensions:: health, economy, population, energy, sprawl, wildlife, and pollution.<\/p>\n

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“The Scorecard’s target measurement for sprawl is 64 percent of a metropolitan area’s urban and suburban residents living in transit-friendly, walkable neighborhoods. That was the average for Vancouver, BC, Canada as of 2001 — the most recent data that was available when the Cascadia Scorecard was launched in 2004. \u00a0 Vancouver has the best smart-growth record among Cascadian cities. In fact, it has the most compact urban structure of any of the 19 cities Sightline has analyzed to date.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lower Mainland British Columbia Sprawl Map-Click for Animation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is a summary of research on British Columbia<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0I was in Vancouver, BC this past May and I can attest to the fact that it is a very walkable city. \u00a0One of the things I look at in cities is how geography shapes growth, such as mountains and bodies of water. \u00a0Steep mountains, Burrard Inlet, and the Fraser River have all played a role in resisting the pressure for widespread sprawl. \u00a0In the lower mainland area of British Columbia, where Vancouver is, policies are in place to protect farmland and to channel development.<\/p>\n

Twitterversion::<\/strong> @Sightline Institute has great resources for understanding sustainable develment w\/studies of #Cascadia. http:\/\/url.ie\/2jde \u00a0#ThickCulture\u00a0@Prof_K<\/a><\/p>\n

Song:: <\/strong>Atmosphere – Pink Mountaintops<\/a> {Vancouver, BC, CA}<\/p>\n

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The Sightline Institute has reports and maps on sustainable regional development. \u00a0They have a Cascadia Scorecard that tracks cities along seven key dimensions:: health, economy, population, energy, sprawl, wildlife, and pollution. “The Scorecard’s target measurement for sprawl is 64 percent of a metropolitan area’s urban and suburban residents living in transit-friendly, walkable neighborhoods. That was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1943,1389,1944,1945,1947,1946],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atmosphere","tag-british-columbia","tag-pink-mountaintops","tag-sightline-institute","tag-sustainable-development","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}