{"id":3739,"date":"2010-10-03T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2010-10-03T19:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T02:00:44","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/10\/03\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-94\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/kbenfield\/striking_images_of_disconnecte.html\">Striking images of disconnected streets and unwanted sprawl | Kaid Benfield&#8217;s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Based on Boston.com&#8217;s photo-essay of &#8220;human landscapes in SW Florida,&#8221; Kaid Benfield&#8217;s blog entry notes:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nAmong land use characteristics, poor street connectivity is the best predictor of a neighborhood&#8217;s low rate of walking, and the second best predictor of a high rate of driving.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<br \/>\nThe images drive (no pun intended) that point home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburban_style\">suburban_style<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburbia\">suburbia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburbs\">suburbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/land_use\">land_use<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/automobile\">automobile<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cars\">cars<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/09\/human_landscapes_in_sw_florida.html\">Human landscapes in SW Florida &#8211; The Big Picture &#8211; Boston.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/09\/human_landscapes_in_sw_florida.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/inapcache.boston.com\/universal\/site_graphics\/blogs\/bigpicture\/swfla_09_30\/s07_00000027.jpg\" alt=\"Gated community ...or factory chicken pen?\" width=\"535\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gated community (or factory chicken pen?)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Must-see photo essay:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nMany homes there are empty and have been for years. Huge developments sit partially completed among densely built up neighborhoods and swampland. A guest stated that there were &#8220;enough housing lots in Charlotte County to last for more than 100 years&#8221;. Boom and bust residential development has drastically affected parts of southwest Florida for decades now, and I spent some time (with the help of Google Earth), looking around the area. With permission from the fine folks at Google, here are a few glimpses at development in southwest Florida. (26 photos total)<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/sprawl\">sprawl<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburban_style\">suburban_style<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburbia\">suburbia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/suburbs\">suburbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/florida\">florida<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/land_use\">land_use<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">favorite links<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking images of disconnected streets and unwanted sprawl | Kaid Benfield&#8217;s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC Based on Boston.com&#8217;s photo-essay of &#8220;human landscapes in SW Florida,&#8221; Kaid Benfield&#8217;s blog entry notes: QUOTE Among land use characteristics, poor street connectivity is the best predictor of a neighborhood&#8217;s low rate of walking, and the second best predictor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}