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Urban Issues: Phoenix Job Focus, Perils In Toronto Condo Market, NC Rural & Urban Divide, 11B World Population Forecast

June 14, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Phoenix Branding to Focus on Growing Jobs  Arizona Republic   Its identity drowned in a sea of anonymity, the East Valley is no more. Oh, you can still call it that if you want, and most folks around here probably will.
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Urban Issues: Growth No Longer Enough For Charlotte, Multigenerational Homes, Chief Resilience Officers, Cities & Startups

June 13, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Charlotte Now Relies on Taxes, Not Explosive Growth  Charlotte Observer   A city of Charlotte property tax hike and one proposed by Mecklenburg County this week suggest the area's largest local governments can no longer rely on explosive growth and annexation for balanced budgets.  
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Urban Issues: Housing Solutions Gone Awry, Cities & Friends, Civic Amenities, Disbanding BRA, Workable Affordable Housing Plans

June 3, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES A Housing Solution Gone Awry  New York Times   In the early 1970s, the architect and city planner Oscar Newman came forth with a book and theory called "Defensible Space," which relied in part on data from New York City public housing to propose a set of design solutions to the mounting problems of urban living.
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Enviroment & Ecology: Energy Generation Walking, Indoor Microbial Census, Breathing On The Subway, UK Wildlife In Trouble

May 28, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Walking Could Produce Energy via Shoes  Giant Freakin Robot   There's no better power than people power! A team of engineering students at Rice University in Houston, Texas have invented a shoe that can harness the energy of everyday walking to, theoretically, power small devices such as cell phones or mp3 players.
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Urban Issues: Small Grants Aid Cities, Oregon Redevelopment Tax Shift, Lessons From Harlem, DC Food Truck Politics

May 23, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Using Small Grants to Push Cities Forward  Janis Foster, via: @tarapham   I was so excited this week when I spotted info about the City of St. Louis' Sustainable Neighborhood Small Grant Competition and can't wait to tell you why.  
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Urban Issues: 'Aspiring' To Gentrification, Merging City-County Econ Dev Agency, Calif. Struggling Cities, Developers Don't Innovate

May 16, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Cities Don't "Aspire" to Gentrification  Better Institutions   In a recent article posted on New Geography, Aaron M. Renn asks what seems to be a fairly straightforward question: "Why Gentrification?" But unlike most writing on the subject, the question isn't why it happens or how to avoid it, but why cities aspire to it.
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Urbanism & Design: Charlotte TOD Success, St. Louis Ballpark Redevelopment, Downtown Pittsburgh Building Boom, Boston Fenway Redevelopment

May 15, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Charlotte Officials Tout South End that Transit Built  Charlotte Observer   With construction booming in Charlotte's South End, city leaders on Tuesday called the area a model for the kind of smart growth that transit projects can spur in struggling neighborhoods east, west and north of uptown.
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Urbanism & Design: Regionalism In Atlanta, Toronto Density Bonus Debate, Abu Dhabi Rock Stadium, Case For Low-Rise Density

April 26, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Is Regionalism the Way Forward for Atlanta?  Atlanta Journal Constitution   Last summer's transportation sales tax defeat and a series of divisive political feuds has set back the idea of effective regional solutions for metro Atlanta.
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Urbanism & Design: Reviving East Midtown Manhattan, Santa Rosa TOD Vote, Tampa Ped Friendly Makeover, Zombie Subdivisions

April 22, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN A Better Way to Revive East Midtown Manhattan  New York Times   WE are told that New York needs to be lofted back into global competitiveness. That the city isn't modern enough.
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Urban Issues: New Jersey's Youthful Urbanites, Learning To 'Fail Fast', Sequester Cuts Housing Aid, New Childless Norm

April 16, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Old Guard Sees New Youthful Urbanites as Threat in New Jersey  Huffington Post   To many longtime Jersey City residents, there's no better mascot than their mayor, a colorful veteran of the region's rough-and-tumble politics who released an album of Christmas classics while in office.
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