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Reverse Zone, weblog on urban planning, sustainability, and technology.
Martin Laplante
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- Planetizen
- Cyburbia
- LookWAYup dictionary
- RES Policy Research Inc.
- Medical Reference
- AI Topics
- Pattern Language
- Scale Down, Windsor
- Raise the Hammer
- Price Tags
- Urban Squares
- NYC Streets
- Grush Hour
- Save Griffintown
- DNS Help
Friends' Blogs - David Wilson
- Viktor Toth
- Michael Geist
Recent posts
- The Delicate Balancing Act of Downtowns and the Death of Griffintown
- Internet Identity Keystone Kops
- LA Transit Plan Aims to Save 725 Metric Tons of GHG Annually by 2030
- New York City's Congestion Pricing Plan Dies Yet Again
- New York Discovers Existing Direct Democracy Zoning Rule
- Driving is Going Down in the US
- The Commuting Turnaround in Canada
- Vancouver Churches Get a Licence to Break the Law
- Carbon Capture and Storage For Canada
- Prince of Wales Promotes Health, Wealth, and Courtesy
- Physical Measures Reduce Trips by How Much?
- Tall Buildings Incompatible with New Urbanism
- Direct Voter Control of Comprehensive Plans Fails
- TOD Mindset Moving Away From Pedestrian-friendly Focus
- Land Use Responsible for Biofuel Carbon Debt
- Places to Grow - Pictures Tell the Story
- How do the New Fuel Efficiency Standards Compare with California and Europe?
- Why We Still Need Separation of Uses
- Wikia Search Launches, Minus the Unique Features
- Malls as Make-believe Town Centres Minus the Wrong Kind of People
- NASA's scrambled data: it's not rocket science
- What Did John Baird Know and When Did He Know It?
- Is the Pope For or Against Urgent Climate Change Action?
- Dense Condos Do Not Revitalize
- Carbon Offsets in Ontario
- Is Carbon Sequestration Completely Useless?
- Hot Air - How to Beat Climate Change By Burning More Coal
- Congestion Pricing, Privacy, and Mesh Wireless Networking
- Cycling Will Kill You, But Not Cycling Will Kill You More
- Sprawl as Linear Population Density
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Complete List of Posts
List of Posts
- Apr 30, 2008
- The Delicate Balancing Act of Downtowns and the Death of Griffintown
- Apr 23, 2008
- Internet Identity Keystone Kops
- Apr 15, 2008
- LA Transit Plan Aims to Save 725 Metric Tons of GHG Annually by 2030
- Apr 8, 2008
- New York City's Congestion Pricing Plan Dies Yet Again
- Apr 6, 2008
- New York Discovers Existing Direct Democracy Zoning Rule
- Driving is Going Down in the US
- Apr 3, 2008
- The Commuting Turnaround in Canada
- Mar 22, 2008
- Vancouver Churches Get a Licence to Break the Law
- Mar 11, 2008
- Carbon Capture and Storage For Canada
- Feb 29, 2008
- Prince of Wales Promotes Health, Wealth, and Courtesy
- Feb 19, 2008
- Physical Measures Reduce Trips by How Much?
- Tall Buildings Incompatible with New Urbanism
- Feb 17, 2008
- Direct Voter Control of Comprehensive Plans Fails
- Feb 16, 2008
- TOD Mindset Moving Away From Pedestrian-friendly Focus
- Feb 8, 2008
- Land Use Responsible for Biofuel Carbon Debt
- Jan 21, 2008
- Places to Grow - Pictures Tell the Story
- Jan 17, 2008
- How do the New Fuel Efficiency Standards Compare with California and Europe?
- Jan 10, 2008
- Why We Still Need Separation of Uses
- Jan 8, 2008
- Wikia Search Launches, Minus the Unique Features
- Jan 2, 2008
- Malls as Make-believe Town Centres Minus the Wrong Kind of People
- NASA's scrambled data: it's not rocket science
- Dec 21, 2007
- What Did John Baird Know and When Did He Know It?
- Dec 12, 2007
- Is the Pope For or Against Urgent Climate Change Action?
- Nov 28, 2007
- Dense Condos Do Not Revitalize
- Nov 21, 2007
- Carbon Offsets in Ontario
- Nov 15, 2007
- Is Carbon Sequestration Completely Useless?
- Nov 14, 2007
- Hot Air - How to Beat Climate Change By Burning More Coal
- Oct 28, 2007
- Congestion Pricing, Privacy, and Mesh Wireless Networking
- Oct 12, 2007
- Cycling Will Kill You, But Not Cycling Will Kill You More
- Oct 5, 2007
- Sprawl as Linear Population Density
- Sep 30, 2007
- Give the Peace a Chance
- Does LEED Mean Anything?
- Sep 16, 2007
- London should ban cars altogether to reach targets
- Sep 12, 2007
- What's Best for Renewables, Merton Rule or Feed-In Tariff?
- Sep 5, 2007
- GHG: Doing More Than Your Neighbour
- Sep 4, 2007
- Zero-Carbon by 2050
- Aug 25, 2007
- US Legislators Consider Taxes on Gasoline, Carbon, and McMansions
- First Kyoto Carbon Trade in the US
- Aug 24, 2007
- Would Reducing Energy Use Yield a Green Dividend?
- Aug 22, 2007
- The Skype is Falling! The Skype is Falling!
- Aug 19, 2007
- National Inventory Report on Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks, 1990-2005
- Aug 15, 2007
- MMP or no MMP and Environmentalism
- Aug 5, 2007
- Ontario Leads the Way to Kyoto
- Californians Burn Less Gas
- Jul 31, 2007
- Give it away free, make it up on volume
- Jul 23, 2007
- AI vs. Moore's Law
- Jul 19, 2007
- Vancouver Area Tempted to Allow More Highrises
- Jul 18, 2007
- State Blocks $500 Million Federal Environmental Funding for New York
- Jul 17, 2007
- Yahoo Web Beacons Rediscovered
- Jul 11, 2007
- LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Rating System
- Jul 8, 2007
- Cato Institute Likes a Carbon Tax
- Jul 3, 2007
- Straw Men in a Sprawl World
- Jul 2, 2007
- Zoned Out
- Jun 28, 2007
- Walkable Lowrise Development for Downtown Columbus
- Jun 27, 2007
- Converting Shopping Malls to Mixed Use Town Centres
- Jun 26, 2007
- A Different Kind of Google Plug-in
- Jun 21, 2007
- The Increasingly Unimportant Commute
- Jun 20, 2007
- Ministerial Correspondence
- Jun 18, 2007
- If You Come, They Will Build It
- Jun 14, 2007
- Oil Industry Now Drilling for CO2
- Developers Punishing Neighbours over Planning Losses
- Jun 7, 2007
- A Tale of Two Cities: Two Ottawa-Gatineau Transportation Studies
- May 31, 2007
- Main Arterial Woonerf
- May 29, 2007
- Better Transit Marketing
- Vancouver's Ecodensity Enters a Dangerous Phase
- May 28, 2007
- Disk failure
- May 24, 2007
- I Need a "Why?" Button
- May 18, 2007
- More on Which is Greener, Houses or Apartments?
- May 15, 2007
- Which is Greener, Houses or Apartments?
- May 13, 2007
- Urban Design Art
- May 11, 2007
- Handy Compression Tool
- May 10, 2007
- Legalize Hopscotch!
- May 8, 2007
- Zoning Exceptions and the Failure of Planning
- May 2, 2007
- No One Can Do CO2 Capture - Feds
- Apr 13, 2007
- Second Life for Citizen Participation in Planning
- 18th Century Planning is Still the State of the Art
- Mar 27, 2007
- Cul-de-Sacs are a Dead End
- Mar 26, 2007
- McJob in the Pickwickian Sense
- Mar 15, 2007
- 10 Things Wrong With American Sprawl
- Mar 4, 2007
- Sierra Club Supports Voter Control of Planning
- London, New York, Beyond Congestion Pricing
- Feb 14, 2007
- Teraflops Performance - Is AI Here Yet?
- Feb 13, 2007
- Private Copying Levy - How Much for iPods?
- Feb 9, 2007
- Google 10 years old
- Feb 7, 2007
- Green Neighbourhood Rating System
- Feb 6, 2007
- New Green Options Web Site
- Feb 5, 2007
- A Simple Eco-list for Businesses, without a Carbon Tax
- Jan 30, 2007
- Architects Cause Half of Greenhouse Gases
- Converting Form Parameters From ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
- Jan 28, 2007
- Gapminder Advanced Charts at Google
- Britain Debates Personal Carbon Rationing
- Jan 23, 2007
- Toronto Councillor Says Make Room For Families Downtown
- Jan 19, 2007
- Close Encounters with Buildings
- Ontario Municipal Board Says City Can't Plan for Mix or Density of Mixed Use
- Jan 11, 2007
- How much ethanol do we need in gasoline?
- Jan 8, 2007
- Toronto's Road to Future Sprawl is Paved with Good Intentions
- Dec 20, 2006
- Do Hidden Cameras Make Our Cities Safer?
- Dec 18, 2006
- Drive Less, Says Automobile Association
- Dec 16, 2006
- Planting Forests to Offset Global Warming
- Dec 14, 2006
- Carbon Emission Trading a Booming Market
- Environment Hamilton Response to Climate Change
- Dec 9, 2006
- Poorly Planned High Density Can Impair Child Development
- Congestion Charge for New York?
- Dec 7, 2006
- The Environmental Cost of Concrete and Aggregates
- Nov 27, 2006
- Toronto Greener and More Powerful Than Ever
- Thank You, Turkey
- Nov 24, 2006
- Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, Relative to intensity
- Nov 20, 2006
- Congestion Charge Returning to Stockholm
- Nov 14, 2006
- Ottawa Election : Technologist Helped by Engineers
- Oct 30, 2006
- Some Heresy About Google
- Oct 22, 2006
- Brownfield Brutalism - Urban Planning for Sale
- Oct 19, 2006
- Urban Design and Public Health
- Technorati is Back!
- Oct 15, 2006
- BT Tackling Spam at the Source
- Oct 11, 2006
- The Causes of Sprawl
- Oct 10, 2006
- Energy Star Sprawl
- Sep 28, 2006
- Auditor General: Climate Change Programs Worked
- Sep 27, 2006
- Auditor General: Curb the Oil Sands
- Sep 15, 2006
- Trees Prevent Accidents
- Sep 13, 2006
- Author Anthony Flint Drops By
- Sep 8, 2006
- Happy Anniversary, Star Trek
- Sep 6, 2006
- Is High Density the Cure for Transportation?
- Aug 29, 2006
- Free Lessons on Manual Transmission
- Aug 24, 2006
- Dedicated Servers Rented by the Hour
- Aug 23, 2006
- Classified Ad: Scientist Opinion for Sale
- Why not Build Medieval Towns Here?
- Aug 1, 2006
- Green Roofs: Enough Energy Impact to Make a Difference?
- Jul 29, 2006
- Free Transit: The Carrot and Making It Stick
- Free Transit: the Answer to Air Pollution?
- Jul 27, 2006
- Nightclub Loses Licence so Residents Won't Lose Sleep
- Jul 26, 2006
- Changes to the Pagerank Algorithm
- Jul 15, 2006
- Off-peak Power for Electric Cars
- Jul 6, 2006
- Transit Tax Credit: How Much Per Ride?
- Jul 1, 2006
- An Alternative to Net Neutrality
- Jun 26, 2006
- Contested Streets: The Movie
- Jun 21, 2006
- Born Again in an Atheocracy
- Jun 20, 2006
- Legally Binding Community Benefits Agreements
- Jun 18, 2006
- Vancouver has it right - Ecodensity
- Jun 17, 2006
- Ontario has it wrong - Places to Grow
- May 29, 2006
- Average household size - up or down?
- Mark Jaccard - Economists' Self-delusion about GHGs
- May 6, 2006
- Quiet Death of Energuide for Houses
- May 2, 2006
- Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, and Barry Wellman
- May 1, 2006
- Review of This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America
- Apr 26, 2006
- Windows Genuine Annoyance
- Apr 24, 2006
- Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Included in Gas Prices
- Apr 17, 2006
- Canada's Fictional Climate Change Policy
- Apr 11, 2006
- New York's Downzoning Uprising
- Mar 23, 2006
- Paypal's illusion of movement
- Mar 11, 2006
- Killer Kites
- Feb 28, 2006
- DNS troubles with Network Solutions
- Feb 11, 2006
- Stossel's Urban Myths and Lies
- Feb 3, 2006
- Wikipedia Reputation
- Jan 30, 2006
- Social Capital: Second-Hand Capital or White Man's Burden?
- Jan 13, 2006
- Tax Credit for Transit Users, Private Housing Builders
- Jan 6, 2006
- Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Reduces Risks & GHGs
- Dec 21, 2005
- Terrestrial Ship to Save the Earth
- Dec 19, 2005
- Border de-fence
- Dec 13, 2005
- Pioneer Anomaly
- Dec 6, 2005
- Let's Get our Head out of the Tarsands
- Community Planning - are citizens powerless?
- Dec 4, 2005
- Too much history
- Nov 24, 2005
- Knowledge Micro-outsourcing
- Nov 13, 2005
- Trademarks, the Internet, and Legal Bullies
- Nov 12, 2005
- Paris riots and urban planning
- Nov 11, 2005
- Ontologista
- Nov 2, 2005
- U.S. Federal Government Data
- Oct 23, 2005
- What is "an Ontology"
- Oct 11, 2005
- Direct Democracy in Urban Planning
- Pornohapsy
- Oct 4, 2005
- Minimize Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Reverse Zoning
- Sep 28, 2005
- How to Reduce Gas Prices
- Sep 25, 2005
- Turing Machine from Lego
- Sep 23, 2005
- Social Sciences: So Much Left Undone
- Social Sciences and Humanities Transformation
- Sep 19, 2005
- Using Copyright Law to Stop Spam
- Sep 8, 2005
- Redrawing the Poverty Line in New Orleans
- Aug 22, 2005
- Different server
- Aug 21, 2005
- Reverse Zone
- Jan 1, 2001
- List of Posts
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