Urban Issues: China US Buying Spree Coming, Loneliness & Public Policy, New Census Numbers, Baby-Boom Looming Impact
May 24, 2013
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China Has Too Much US Debt, Real Estate Buys Coming
Quartz, via: @rpuentes
China has $3.4 trillion in foreign currency reserves, and they appear to be burning a hole in the central bank's proverbial pocket.
Urbanism & Design: Urbanizing Where We Are, Obamacare's Impact On Land Use, NJ Urban Hub Tax Credits, Food Demographics
May 23, 2013
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How Can We Urbanize Where We Are?
Bacon's Rebellion
Around the country, local governments are proposing plans to re-develop aging office parks as urban-style, mixed-use complexes, reports the Wall Street Journal, which cited the Innsbrook office park in Henrico as a case in point.
Urban Issues: Small Grants Aid Cities, Oregon Redevelopment Tax Shift, Lessons From Harlem, DC Food Truck Politics
May 23, 2013
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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.
Urban Issues: Las Vegas Tech Bet, Need For Disaster-Resistant Housing, AirBnB Illegal In NYC, Dev Cost & Housing Affordability
May 22, 2013
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A $50 Million Dollar Bet on Las Vegas
Entrepreneur.com
How the Vegas Tech Fund plans to help transform the tech scene in Sin City, in part two of our series on Tony Hsieh's $350 million Downtown Project.
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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
Urbanism & Design: Security Trumps Urbanism In NY, Charlotte Streetcar Gains Impress, Making Walking To School Safer
May 20, 2013
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World Trade Center Security Will Kill Its Urbanism
New York Times City Room, via: @witoldr
The wreckage had not been cleared from ground zero when planners and neighbors began…
Urbanism & Design: Disappearing World Heritage Sites, Making Homes Accessible, Why Cities Flood, Beltlines Beyond Atlanta, Women & Building Design
May 17, 2013
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Ten Disappearing World Heritage Sites
USA Today
Standing atop the ramparts of China's Great Wall. Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. These are the giants of our collective imagination, the plumes in our travel cap.
Urban Issues: Housing Affordability, Atlanta Beltline Internet Incentive, Nashville Mixed-Income Plan, Twitter & Geography Of Communication
May 17, 2013
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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.
Urban Issues: Vision For Richmond's Future, Vancouver Embracing Accessory Units, Traffic Cones, New Google Maps
May 16, 2013
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A Grand Vision for Richmond's Future
Bacon's Rebellion
By 2035 the Richmond region will grow by roughly 200,000 households (435,000 people) and 200,000 new jobs. That's a mind-numbing number for a metropolitan region with barely more than 1 million inhabitants today.
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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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.