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EDRA
Join a cross-disciplinary review team of academic researchers, practice-based researchers, designers, and industry thought leaders when you serve as a conference reviewer for EDRA47 Raleigh. Reviewers must be available to conduct reviews between Oct. 12, 2015 and Nov. 11, 2015 and between Nov. 30, 2015 and Jan. 11, 2016. In appreciation, reviewers will be recognized in the official EDRA47 Raleigh Conference Proceedings and program book and on the conference website. This opportunity is open to all EDRA members. Sign up to serve as an EDRA47 Raleigh Reviewer.
EDRA
The deadline to submit proposals for intensives, individual presentations, group presentations (symposia, workshops and professional development tutorials) and mobile sessions is Friday Oct. 2. In preparation for your submission, read the EDRA47 Raleigh Call for Proposals.
For questions regarding the Call for Proposals or EDRA47, please contact edra47co...@ncsu.edu.
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CityLab
As a remarkable new photo archive of urban transformations shows, making city streets more user-friendly doesn't have to be that complicated. The archive put together by Brazilian urban design collective Urb-i houses a collection of more than 350 before-and-after shots showing city blocks across the world that have been transformed by pro-pedestrian makeovers.
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CityLab
Along with an increasing number of cities around the country, San Francisco has a "Vision Zero" plan to make its streets safer for pedestrians. The initiative's near-term goal is to reduce deaths and serious injuries by 50 percent by 2021, and in this tech-dominated town, a big part of the strategy for doing that involves data — improving the quality of information on pedestrian injuries and fatalities, analyzing those numbers, and "using data to inform better public policy."
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Poughkeepsie Journal
Biophilia is defined as the inherent human inclination to affiliate with nature. The moral imperative of biophilia is that we cannot flourish as individuals or as a species without a compassionate and considerate relationship to the world beyond ourselves of which we are a part. Biophilic design, an extension of biophilia, incorporates natural materials, natural light, vegetation, nature views and other experiences of the natural world into the modern built environment.
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GreenBiz
Designers in the building industry are continually looking for new and innovative ways to create beautiful, livable spaces that are environmentally responsible and resilient. Increasingly, those on the leading edge are looking to nature as a source of inspiration — a design discipline known as biomimicry.
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Alligator
Rebecca Butler was strolling through downtown Gainesville when she noticed one corner wasn’t bordered by its usual parked cars.
Instead, a park popped up in its place.
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Sourceable
The planet is rapidly urbanizing, with more than 50 percent of the world’s population now living in cities. By 2050, that figure will rise to 64 percent in the developing world, and 86 percent in the developed world, according to the United Nations.
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By Michael J. Berens
 As more and more women ascend to professional and leadership positions, businesses and organizations have striven to create cultures and provide environments that accommodate both sexes without favoritism. What often is lacking in these efforts is a clear vision of what constitutes gender equality or neutrality, especially in the design of the physical environment. Some recent studies offer guidance on factors that can affect perceptions of gender neutrality.
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