Author: Syed S. Ahmed

  • Disaster Management & Public Libraries

    WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER Recently I watched Spotlight on: The Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program on US Building Digest‘s website. It is about the construction program for libraries in Massachusetts, which is a state program, as opposed to New York’s more local systems. New York City has three separate systems, by the way: New York…

  • High Speed Hope

    High Speed Hope60 minutes DC to NYC on a train?Yes, please!That is less time than it takes me to get to an airport.Fingers are crossed, but I am prepared for disappointment.

  • EVENT: Greater and Greener 7/13/12-7/17/12

    WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER This international conference on urban parkland is going on already, but there is still time to partake! Here is the full schedule. It goes through Tuesday and if you happen to have some time off, it looks like there will be plenty of tours of New York City Parks and there…

  • Economics and Affordable Housing

    WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER Do urban planners know enough about urban economics? Just mentioning economics is often enough to cause most eyes to glaze over. Why should planners’ eyes be any different? One reason that urban planners don’t tend to study economics too much may be that economics is currently depicted as a conservative mode…

  • Walkers (the living non-zombie ones): part 2

    WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER Walkers: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 Apologies for the delay in this follow up to my previous Walker post… I have been mulling over what I learned in the Walking & the Life of the City Symposium and trying to figure out how that information can be transformed into useful knowledge…

  • Green House Gas vs. Carbon Footprint and why the difference matters

    Global warming caused by environmental degradation is the bane of our times.  It will be a paramount concern of our societies for generations to come.  There are two ways to measure the impact of our activity on this planet: one is the inventory of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in a country and the other is the Carbon Footprint (CF) of a…