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Urban Issues: Housing Affordability, Atlanta Beltline Internet Incentive, Nashville Mixed-Income Plan, Twitter & Geography Of Communication

May 17, 2013
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  URBAN ISSUES What's Happening to Housing Affordability  AARP Blog   The National Association of Realtors announced earlier this year that its Housing Affordability Index shows 2012 was a record year for housing affordability.  
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Urbanism & Design: Connecting Bikes & Business, Miami Ballpark A Bad Deal, Nashville Subdivision Offers Walkability, Pedestrian Tunnels

May 13, 2013
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Affordability, bicycles, Charlottesville, Development & Redevelopment, Florida, housing, Indiana, Indianapolis, Miami, Nashville, Pedestrians & Walkability, San Antonio, Tennessee, Texas, Transit, Transit Design, Virginia
URBANISM & DESIGN Charlottesville Explores Connections Between Bikes, Business  Charlottesville Tomorrow   Bikes and walking - we all know they are possible alternatives to driving cars.
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Urban Issues: Double-Edged Infill Sword, Walking For Health, Best Read Cities, American Community Survey, Start-Up Boom's Class Bias

April 26, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Urban Infill is a Double Edge Sword  Nashville Ledger   There are certain things about Sylvan Park that lured resident Steve Swartz away from Belle Meade seven years ago, like the variety in architecture and diversity in character of the neighbors.
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Urban Issues: Knoxville Gentrification, HUD Restructure, Renter's Dilemma, Social Capital & NIMBYism

April 25, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Does Knoxville Gentrification Deserve Support?  Knoxville Metro Pulse   Gentrification. In the past month, I've seen the concept defended on a local Internet forum, heard it derided in front-porch gabfests, and seen it awkwardly danced around in community meetings.
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Urbanism & Design: Google's Southern Strategy, Top 10 Cities To Travel Car Free, LRT To Revitalize Poor Denver Area, Impact Of Driverless Cars

April 23, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Google's Southern Strategy, Attractive City Clusters  Seattle Times   The first paragraph from the Charlotte Observer's story might make one think that the South is getting ready to stick it to the high-tax, high-regulation West Coast again:
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Transport: FY2014 New Starts, Cambodia Overpass 'Achievement', Nashville 'Amp' BRT, Salt Lake Airport LRT, CAHSR Chooses Contractor

April 15, 2013
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TRANSPORT FTA Releases FY2014 New Starts Report  FTA   This Annual Report on Funding Recommendations is issued by the United States Secretary of Transportation to help inform the appropriations process for the upcoming fiscal year by providing information on projects included in the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) discretionary Capital Investment Grant Program.
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Transport: Transit Wiki, Richmond VA Transit Network Plans, Driving Down & Highway Spending Up, Speeding Seattle Transit Studies

April 11, 2013
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TRANSPORT Transit Wiki for Information Sharing  Human Transit   I've recently learned of a new resource for sharing knowledge and best practices related to transit planning: transitwiki.org.
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Urban Issues: Visualizing Spatial & Social Media, Nashville MPO Example, Hidden Subsidies In Cities, Home Ownership & American Dream

April 8, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Five Things Portland Can Steal from Other Cities  Portland Oregonian   From city mayors to business leaders, people from around the globe used to arrive in droves to see how Portland came to be such a livable city. They then took those ideas back to their own communities.
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Environment & Ecology: Wireless Bus Recharging, NY Subway Seawall Rising, Chicago Learns From High Line, NY Rat Sterilization, Sustainability In St. Louis

April 2, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Germany Testing Wireless Bus Recharge at Stops  Ecology.com   The city of Mannheim, Germany, is about to undertake a pilot project that just might pave the way to the future for zero-emissions and low-noise public transit - electric buses that charge themselves wirelessly while waiting for passengers to get on and off at bus stops.
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Urban Issues: Nashville's Time To Shine, US Housing Supply, China's Housing Restrictions, Charleston Creative Corridor

April 1, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Nashville's Time to Shine is Now  Nashville Tennessean   Half a century ago, the founding fathers of Metro knew their city was coming up short.  
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