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	<title>Sean Peter Kane</title>
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	<description>Portfolio of urban planning graduate student Pete Kane. You&#039;ll find many website designs, urban planning concepts, architectural pieces, furniture ideas, and project management cases.</description>
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		<title>LEED Green Associate &#8211; Check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I completed another step in entering the &#8220;green&#8221; economy. After an excellent &#8220;Green Urban Design&#8221; course at Tufts that focused on LEED for Neighborhood Development and then two six-hour preparatory classes for the exam, I passed the Green Building Certification Institute&#8217;s LEED Green Associate exam. This can be added to the internship that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2010/05/leed-green-associate-check/</link>
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		<title>Sprawl or Smart Growth in Easthampton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The topic around Easthampton is not whether there will be growth but what kind of growth. It&#8217;s a serious question that needs to be handled appropriately by the city and the community. This decision will affect the quality of life for the residents now and in the future. There are two major elements to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2010/01/sprawl-or-smart-growth-in-easthampton/</link>
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		<title>Adaptive Reuse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of adaptive reuse is what initially drew me to pursue my Masters in Urban Planning. While one aspect of it may draw people to the architectural field, I am more interested in the concept of using adaptive reuse methods as a tool for community and economic development and sustainability. For my first semester [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2010/01/adaptive-reuse/</link>
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		<title>Massachusetts Association of CDCs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coinciding with the start of my internship at the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC), the group was undertaking a complete redesign and redevelopment of their website. With the programming contracted out to Dan Collis-Puro, I was asked to assist with the project by developing its design and coordinating production. The new site, launched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2010/01/massachusetts-association-of-cdcs/</link>
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		<title>First Semester of Urban Planning &#8211; Check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have officially finished my first semester of the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning grad program at Tufts. It was a bit intense, especially since I focused on taking my required classes all in the semester. I topped the semester off with a large project (paper, portfolio, and poster), reflection paper, and an Economics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/12/first-semester-of-urban-planning-check/</link>
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		<title>A Change Is A-Coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend Boston played host to Rail~Volution 2009. The conference is a meeting of the minds: multimodal practitioners/engineers, politicos, citizens, and students; all of whom are interested in and/or focused on &#8220;Building Livable Communities with Transit.&#8221; Due to my course load and homework, I was only able to manage one day at the event &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/11/a-change-is-a-coming/</link>
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		<title>Planning the 21st Century City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This evening, the MA Chapter of the APA and MIT hosted a talk by Anthony Flint about his new book Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York&#8217;s Master Builder And Transformed The American City&#8221;. Attended by about 50 people, the group included professors, practitioners and students from across Massachusetts. To begin with, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/10/planning-the-21st-century-city/</link>
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		<title>Easthampton Planning Board Upholds Master Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 28th, the Planning Board of Easthampton, Mass, rejected retailer Stop &#038; Shop&#8217;s plan to build a new grocery store in the city. The topic has been an outgoing item for the city and its residents for the past ten months since the application was submitted. It however has been weighing on residents&#8217; minds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/10/easthampton-planning-board-upholds-master-plan/</link>
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		<title>No One Leaves &#8211; Canvasing #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon the No One Leaves Campaign kicked off its fall efforts by canvasing a number of foreclosed homes in the Dorchester area of Boston. With about 30 people from Harvard Law, BU Law, and Tufts, we broke into small groups to cover the recent foreclosed properties. One of the first things we came to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/10/no-one-leaves-canvasing-1/</link>
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		<title>Equality Slowly But Surely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former President Bill Clinton made an exciting and surprising statement yesterday &#8211; he now supports gay marriage. After a presidency that was marked by mixed support for sexual orientation equality, one of the country&#8217;s greatest presidents ever has finally acknowledged that equality should be all-inclusive. During Clinton&#8217;s leadership, he enacted the Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/09/equality-slowly-but-surely/</link>
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		<title>No One Leaves &#8211; Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went to a training session for the No One Leaves program. Started by the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, this is an outreach program that helps to let residents of foreclosed homes learn about their legal rights. The home foreclosure crisis has hit the majority of the nation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/09/no-one-leaves-training/</link>
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		<title>Tweeting with Tweetie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly I came to the Twitter game kind of late. I&#8217;d heard plenty about the service through friends, television news, and tons of magazine writeups (I&#8217;m pretty sure some Mac&#124;Life employees do double-duty at Twitter). I kept my distance, having only joined Facebook in March &#8217;08. It seemed to me that they were pretty much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/09/tweeting-with-tweetie/</link>
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		<title>U2 Needs To Give Gillette Stadium The Boot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last night, we went to see U2 at Foxboro Stadium (Gillette) in Foxboro, MA &#8211; the first of their show dates in MA for the 360 tour. I had seen U2 a few years ago in Boston at the Garden and was ready to see another great show. I was not expecting the transportation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/09/u2-needs-to-give-gillette-stadium-the-boot/</link>
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		<title>Battle of the Boards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems there&#8217;s a battle-of-the-board games heating up. While this type of entertainment has certainly seen better days (pre-video games), there&#8217;s new life brewing and being stirred up in the board game world. Wired Magazine recently covered the growing popularity of Settlers of Catan. For those of you who may not have played this game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/09/battle-of-the-boards/</link>
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		<title>Elect Nancy Nickerson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to help provide an online presence for Nancy Nickerson&#8217;s election run in Farmington, CT. As a City Council candidate, Nancy wanted to provide information about herself and her position while at the same time making it easy for the residents to contact her. Establishing an online presence has allowed her to reach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/09/elect-nancy-nickerson/</link>
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		<title>kre8-ive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prior to using the WordPress system, I had designed a number of versions of kre8-ive.com to showcase my online portfolio. Initially launched as &#8220;studiophusion,&#8221; the website followed a storyline to portray the work. It slowly evolved into a more pictorial entity. The final version prior to this one actually went completely different, focusing on page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/07/kre8-ive/</link>
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		<title>ihatevw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a personal project of mine born out of the numerous issues I had with my 2002 Volkswagen Jetta. After horrid customer service experiences and then reading disparate stories about many other issues VW owners have faced, I decided that there needed to be a single location to keep these stories. Since the launch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/07/ihatevw/</link>
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		<title>The Green Element</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Green Element was developed as a method to not only aggregate articles and links regarding sustainability, but to provide scale to the topic. The articles are broken down into categories dependent on the level of impact the sustainability initiative pertains. The concept is to help individuals better understand at what level action can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/07/the-green-element/</link>
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		<title>Built-In Bookshelf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a lot of books, a lot. From all the literary top books and writing guides to architecture and web design, there&#8217;s just too many for the simple built-in bookshelf and IKEA shelves we had in the condo. The second bedroom (the White Room) is actually used as more of a study. Rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/05/built-in-bookshelf/</link>
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		<title>Homans Building Redevelopment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This project was developed during my &#8220;Green Urban Design and Placemaking&#8221; graduate course at Tufts University. The course centered around the US Green Building Council&#8217;s LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Program. This certification program expands the LEED requirements to ensure that a project considers its impact on the great neighborhood, not just the plot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://speterkane.com/2009/04/homans-building-redevelopment/</link>
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