Urban Issues: Detroit Quest, Baby Boomer Urban Housing Impact, Building A Better City, Investing In Fiber, Housing Mititagates Transit Noise
April 15, 2013
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Dan Gilbert's Quest to Bring Back Detroit
New York Times Magazine
THE best way to experience all that is strange and a little otherworldly about downtown Detroit is to walk the streets around 5 p.m. on a weekday.
Are We There Yet? Older Americans
April 9, 2013
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Editor's Note: In this excerpt from Are We There Yet? we return to the Moving section and address automobile use and the critical need to provide alternatives for the aging Baby Boomers, who represent 20 percent of the nation's population. (Read the Moving chapter introduction: Getting Out Of Gear)
Visit the Are We There Yet? home The situation of older Americans is more difficult since most want to “age in place,” according to AARP, which means they want to live independently in their homes and communities for as long as possible. The problem is that many of the communities in which they live do not provide alternatives to the car: three AARP surveys of older adults in 2010 found that almost 40 percent of the respondents did not have adequate sidewalks near their homes; 60 percent do not live within a 10-minute walk of public transportation; and 38 percent…
Visit the Are We There Yet? home The situation of older Americans is more difficult since most want to “age in place,” according to AARP, which means they want to live independently in their homes and communities for as long as possible. The problem is that many of the communities in which they live do not provide alternatives to the car: three AARP surveys of older adults in 2010 found that almost 40 percent of the respondents did not have adequate sidewalks near their homes; 60 percent do not live within a 10-minute walk of public transportation; and 38 percent…
Urbanism & Design: Planning With Non-Architects, Death By Skywalk, Accessory Dwelling Units, The Myth Of Vertical Sprawl, SF Development Battles
April 9, 2013
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Non-Architects Need to Get Involved in Planning
Sustainable Cities Collective, via: @urbandata
In this beautiful TEDx talk Michiel van Iersel, founder of the Amsterdam based collective 'Failed Architecture' explains how…
Urban Issues: Open Data & Big Issues, Healthy Food & Prices, Ridiculous Housing Market, CityScan Enforcement, Separate & Unequal In DC
April 9, 2013
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Open Data Shifts from Apps to Big Issues
Politico, via: @urbandata
The term open data brings to mind images of next bus apps and geeks poring over data sets about potholes, but advocates say the next phase…
Transport: Generational Shift In Travel, Streetcar Property Assessment, Boring Names, Biking In Austin, Santa Monica Parking
April 8, 2013
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Hipmunk CEO Sees Generational Shift in Travel
Skift
Adam Goldstein, the 25-year-old co-founder and CEO of travel metasearch company Hipmunk, believes there is a "generational shift" under way in travel.
Urban Issues: Demographic Evolution Of Cities 1950-2050, Fighting Gentrification, An Urban School System That Works, SF Trash Inspectors
April 5, 2013
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Chart: Demographic Evolution of Cities 1950 - 2025
Urban Demographics, via: @trnsprttnst
A nice chart showing the U.N. estimate for the demographic evolution of cities between 1950 and 2025.
Urbanism & Design: Crowdfunding Rotterdam Bridge, Density Done Well, Exclusive London, Seattle Small Lot Housing Fight, Parking & Affordable Housing
April 3, 2013
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Moscow Business Complex Sees Rebirth
Wall Street Journal
Watch out Canary Wharf, Moscow City is rising. Five years after grinding to a halt during the global economic crisis, the ambitious real-estate development in Moscow is fast becoming a reality.
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.
Urbanism & Design: Azusa TOD Planning Grant, Myrle Beach AFB Redevopment, Mobile Coffee As Urban Strategy, Cities As Cultural Districts
April 1, 2013
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Azusa Gets TOD Planning Grant
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
As the city prepares for the coming Gold Line Extension, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has awarded Azusa more than $650,000 as part of a Transit Oriented Development Planning grant.
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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