Readworthy

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  What Makes a Great City
  Sasaki’s new report on ‘What Makes a Great City’ supports some of the same conclusions, in a different way, as my UrbanGreen Index 14.1 and Preservation Green Lab’s ‘Older, Smaller, Better’.  Its a quick read with great info graphics.  Nice work!
• How Our Energy Needs are Changing
  Interactive data charts on energy sources and uses  1960-2011 as well as projected global demand.  Great information and even better info graphics.
• Variety in Building Size and Age Yields Vibrancy
  Ed McMahon sent me his recent piece from Urban Land which did a great job of synthesizing PGL’s ‘Older, Smaller, Better’ report.  Read this if you don’t have time (or the attention span) to read the full report!
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  Preservation GreenLab
  Groundbreaking research that begins to provide real data for what we knew intuitively – fine grained, diverse neighborhoods are better.