Urbanism & Design: Less Car-Dependent Infill, Wasted Seattle LRT Opportunity, Netherlands TOD Lessons
May 22, 2013
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Demand Will Rise for Less Car Dependent Infill
Urban Land Institute
Demand will continue to rise for infill residential development that is less car-dependent, while consumers' desire could wane for isolated development in outlying suburbs, according to a new ULI report released at the ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego.
Other Views: Retro Urbanists Cling to Myth of Suburban Decline
May 22, 2013
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Retro Urbanists Cling to Myth of Suburban Decline
New Geography, Wendell Cox and Joel Kotkin
In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based press corps and cultural elite cheerfully sneer at each new sign of decline.
Urbanism & Design: National Parking Policy Graphics, Zero Parking Toronto Skyscraper, Train Station Development
May 21, 2013
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Kemper Freeman Plans Big Bellevue Development
Seattle Times
Kemper Development wants to build 2 million square feet of additional retail, office, hotel and residential space covering more than a block of prime real estate at Northeast Fourth Street and Bellevue Way Northeast.
Urban Issues: Struggling To Reach Suburban Poor, Different Cities We Inhabit, SNAP & Diet Quality, Devolution Of London
May 21, 2013
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Advocates Struggle To Reach Growing Ranks Of Suburban Poor
NPR
Poverty has grown everywhere in the U.S. in recent years, but mostly in the suburbs. During the 2000s, it grew twice as fast in suburban areas as in cities, with more than 16 million poor people now living in the nation's suburbs
Urban Issues: Corruption & State Capitals, Gen Y Housing Preferences, Growing Suburban Poverty, Value Of City Rankings
May 20, 2013
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Are State Capitals in Big Cities Less Corrupt?
Chicago Magazine, via: @otiswhite
Given that Chicago politics is code for pretty much anything anyone thinks is corrupt or even impolitely…
Urbanism & Design: Charlotte TOD Success, St. Louis Ballpark Redevelopment, Downtown Pittsburgh Building Boom, Boston Fenway Redevelopment
May 15, 2013
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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.
Other Views: Time For City Planners To Adapt A New Model, Why "Suburbs" Are Not Triumphant Over Cities
May 15, 2013
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Time For City Planners To Adapt A New Model
Forbes
I recently had my students study and dissect the plans for five cities, including the historic plans for one. In all, ten plans. These are the documents that cities routinely hire consultants to write, often compelled to do so by state statute.
Urban Issues: Template For New LA, Food Desert Mobile Oasis, Seattle Affordable Housing Failure, Reversing Atlanta Job Sprawl
May 13, 2013
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Hollywood as a Template for a New Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
Over 12 years as the area's councilman, he has championed high-density 'smart growth' that's been business-friendly. But community activists worry about rising rents and traffic-choked streets.
Urbanism & Design: New Urbanism On Stilts, Sabermetrics Of Urbanism, Zoning Rewrite Fights Sprawl, Transit & Urbanism
May 9, 2013
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New Urbanism on Stilts, Literally
Witold Rybczynski
Beachtown is a New Urbanism second-home village in Galveston. Construction began in 2005, after a protracted planning and permitting period.
Urban Issues: Vancouver Affordability, Geography Of US Suicides, Atlanta In-Town Job Migration, NYC Apartments Sue Bikeshare
May 9, 2013
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Pushing Back on Wendell Cox's Vancouver Claims
Price Tags
If (you've) heard once, (you've) heard a hundred times that it takes about 10 years of average household income to buy an average home, and that this renders us the second least affordable city in the entire world, or at least the English-speaking world.
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