Episode #117 of GEOGRAFREE Front Line. Today´s Topic: Urban Renewal.

Links:
- Background: Environmental Impacts of Tar Sands Development: http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/factsheets/tarsands.asp
- Lost Spaces and Urban Reuse: Hovering on the HighLine in New York: http://weburbanist.com/2007/06/29/lost-spaces-and-urban-reuse-the-highline-in-new-york/
- Urban Reuse Goes Underground: Subterranean Community Park:⇥http://weburbanist.com/2011/09/28/urban-reuse-goes-underground-subterranean-community-park/
- Delancey Underground: http://www.delanceyunderground.org/

Literature:
- Nefs M. 2006, Unused urban space: conservation or transformation? Polemics about the future of urban wastelands and abandoned buildings. City & Time 2 (1): 4. [online] URL: http://www.ceci-br.org/novo/revista/docs2005/CT-2005-42.pdf
- Stiles R. 2009, Urban spaces – enhancing the attractiveness and quality of the urban environment. URL: http://www.urbanspaces.eu/files/Working%20Paper%203.1.2_FINAL.pdf

Announcements:
- City2020+: Engineering Life Quality for the Future
- Conference at RWTH Aachen University 
- International Conference on 'Demographic and Climate Challenges in the City'
- 18-20 April 2012
- Aachen, Germany
- http://www.humtec.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?article_id=719&clang=1

Quick Vote:
- "What does it take to reuse urban space?"

Music:
Gustav Nielsson - New York - EP "You Have Brushed Your Teeth So Clean“
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US iTunes-Link for the EP: ‘http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/you-have-brushed-your-teeth/id322194330‘
German iTunes-Link for the Album: ‘http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/you-have-brushed-your-teeth/id322194330‘

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