Urban Issues: FBI Building Competition, New German Rental Regulations, Cleveland Cycle Of Abandonment, Selling Fed Property
April 22, 2013
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Bid for FBI Building Sets off Healthy Competition
San Jose Mercury News
The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency-and attendant economic benefits-to their neighborhoods.
Denver Southeast Corridor Maps
April 17, 2013|Reconnecting America
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Are We There Yet? Not Everyone Works For Google
April 2, 2013
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Editor's Note: This week's excerpt from Are We There Yet? explores why communities need to pay attention to the ongoing reorganization of job markets in order to provide people of all skill levels with the transportation choices they need to access opportunity. This is what will make regions more competitive nationally and globally.
Visit the Are We There Yet? home [N]ot everybody works for Google or has the option of using transit. Even though transit ridership has been at record highs — transit use has increased 38 percent since 1995 — transit agencies across the country are facing unprecedented fiscal crises in this recession, and they are laying off workers, cutting back service and raising fares at the worst possible time. The transit riders who are being left stranded tend to be older, African-American or Latino. “As employers and commuters everywhere know only too well, public transportation is an essential…
Visit the Are We There Yet? home [N]ot everybody works for Google or has the option of using transit. Even though transit ridership has been at record highs — transit use has increased 38 percent since 1995 — transit agencies across the country are facing unprecedented fiscal crises in this recession, and they are laying off workers, cutting back service and raising fares at the worst possible time. The transit riders who are being left stranded tend to be older, African-American or Latino. “As employers and commuters everywhere know only too well, public transportation is an essential…
Urban Issues: The Great Senior Housing Sell Off, SF Housing Movement, Sexual Politics Of Urban Environments, H1-B Visa Race, Transit Spending & Unemployment In Fresno
April 2, 2013
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Get Ready for the Great Senior Housing Sell Off
Chicago Tribune
Something in salmon compels them to swim upstream. An invisible force calls swallows to return to Capistrano.
Urban Issues: Negotiating Density, Unemployment & Transit, DC Budget Of Urban Issues, Tech & Customer Service
March 29, 2013
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Negotiating Down Density is Not Fiscally Sustainable
Vibrant Bay Area
I know a land-use planner whose judgment I respect. During our years of working together, she often said that a compromise is appropriate if it equally disappoints people on both sides of a disagreement.
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Are We There Yet? Painless Commutes
March 26, 2013
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home Some places just don’t have the density of jobs and residents and intensity of activity that justifies an investment in rail transit. Many of these communities are investing in bus and shuttle service as well as in programs that make it easier and more pleasant to carpool, walk and bike to jobs in an urban or suburban downtown, and to get healthier while doing it. Des Moines, for example, which has a population 400,000, has been investing nearly $2 million a year to make the downtown more walkable and create a network of bike lanes and trails. Google — which offers job perks that are the envy of Silicon Valley, including chef-prepared food at all hours — is trying to make commutes as painless as possible by ferrying its pampered workers on shuttles that run on biodiesel, with leather seats, wi-fi, and even room for dogs. The Google shuttle carries a quarter of the company’s…
Urbanism & Design: High-Rise Talent Magnets, Wheelchair Office Access, LA Expo Station Rezoning, Willy Wonka Urbanism's Pitfalls
March 20, 2013
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Salt Lake County Hopes High Rises Near Transit Attract Talent
Salt Lake Tribune
Draper's ambitious plan to surround its FrontRunner station with a complex of high-rise office towers catering to high-tech companies secured Salt Lake County's financial support Tuesday.
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Are We There Yet? Some Jobs Are Less Transit-Oriented
March 19, 2013
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home Research by CTOD in 2008 found that people who commute by transit tend to work in the professional, technical or financial services sectors, or in insurance, government, or quasi-public agencies such as utilities — because these are jobs that are typically clustered together. Other industries that generate considerable ridership are hotels and some types of clothing stores. Not coincidentally this mix of businesses closely resembles what is typically found in transit-rich downtowns. It’s not quite so easy for lower- and middle-skilled workers to commute by transit, however, either because they work at all hours — while transit service is most frequent during regular business hours — or because they work in manufacturing, warehousing or big box retail, which can’t be built at the densities and concentrations that are required to make it financially feasible to build transit to…
Are We There Yet? Job Sprawl
March 12, 2013
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home Job sprawl has been especially bad news for low-skilled underemployed or unemployed workers because it creates a “spatial mismatch” between where they live and where jobs are located. A number of studies have found that while minority and lower-skilled workers still tend to live in core urban neighborhoods in disproportionately high numbers, lower-skilled jobs are often located in outlying suburban areas that tend to be more white. A 1997 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development study found, for example, that 87 percent of lower-skilled service jobs were being created in suburban areas. “People sprawl has long been known for its effect on the environment, infrastructure, tax base, quality of life and more,” Brookings Institution analyst Elizabeth Kneebone writes in a 2009 report on job decentralization. “Now we must recognize what ‘job sprawl’ means for the…
Blogosphere: Bikes & Business, Urban Mobility Report Critique, Long Distance Commutes, Dirty Urbanization Truth, Boston Giant Farm
March 8, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Biz Impact of Bikes Dominates Meeting
Streetsblog
'Bikes mean business' is the official theme of this year's National Bike Summit; but that idea hardly needs any help in being put front and center...
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Those outside-the-car airbags are pretty sweet, but what if we could make cars automatically stop before they, you know, hit people?..
'Bikes mean business' is the official theme of this year's National Bike Summit; but that idea hardly needs any help in being put front and center...
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Those outside-the-car airbags are pretty sweet, but what if we could make cars automatically stop before they, you know, hit people?..
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