Blogosphere: Civil Rights & Transit, Toronto Speed Limits, Pricing Travel Behavior, Origin Story of CNU, DC Sustainability Vision
May 3, 2012
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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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Editorial: Civil Rights and Transit Service Los Angeles Times Wouldn't it be great if we could move public transportation across the city of Los Angeles as easily as the avenging thieves of the film "The Italian Job" moved their fleet of get-away Mini Coopers by hacking into the transit authority's computers and making all the lights turn green at the right moment?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: World's Largest Underground HSR Station Gizmodo The Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, when completed (sometime in 2015), will be the world's largest underground high-speed rail station, occupying a whopping 4,628,481sq/ft!.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mayor Ford Doesn't Want to Slow Down Atlantic Cities Toronto mayor Rob Ford thinks the idea of reducing speed limits in the city to save lives is "nuts, nuts, nuts." Ford's remarks come on the heels of Toronto's Medical Officer of Health, David McKeown, releasing a report that recommended reducing speed limits because of the public health benefit... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Dramatic Changes from Congestion Pricing DC Streetsblog For the last nine years, private motorists entering central London between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. have paid a fee (currently £10 or US$16.22) to drive on the city's scarce street space. The revenue from the congestion charge is plowed into the city's transit system... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Does POP Work Better in Small Cities? The Atlantic Cities Later this month, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board is expected to vote on whether to make sure people are paying to ride its growing network of light rail and subway lines... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Students Study Expressway Removals Plan Philly A group of 19 city planning graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania spent the semester studying six North American cities with expressways passing through them, and concluded each locale would be better off removing at least some portion of those highways... Read On |
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Commentary: Architectural Design Off on Expo Line Los Angeles Times This is getting to be a pattern. Every time a major rail line opens in Los Angeles, my reaction tends to unfold in two distinct parts: excitement tempered pretty quickly by a sense of disappointment, of opportunities missed... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How the Internet Redefined Urban Space The Atlantic Cities As the internet spreads beyond our computer screens and into the physical world, how can we define and distinguish between public and private spaces?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Integrate Cleveland Neighborhoods Rustwire As famed Bronx, NY environmental activist Majoria Carter said, "I believe that you shouldn't have to move to live in a better neighborhood." Indeed, the best - and perhaps only - way for the rust belt to be reinvented as a sustainable, thriving, and inclusive region is by accomplishing the task in community after community ... one at a time... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Origin Story of CNU Better Cities and Towns In the early years, it was called Neo-Traditional Planning. Then in 1991, in a conference room at the Playa Vista development in Los Angeles, the term New Urbanism was proposed for the first time in a conversation with Stefanos Polyzoides... Read On |
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Blogosphere: DC Offers Vision for Sustainability ASLA Dirt At a historic church in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray said there are either two future directions for the city: "The gaps between us could further divide our city," or the city could become "greener, more equitable, and more prosperous" for all... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A New Era of Urban Agriculture ASLA Dirt Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture, written by Ryerson University professors Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar, and Joe Nasr explores the new era of urban agriculture... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Can We Learn from Lost Housing Enterprise @ the Horizon A Section 8 building for residents with disabilities was sold when property conditions deteriorated and retrofits to modern accessibility standards were deemed too expensive. An affordable townhome development in Miami converted to condominiums after rent restrictions expired... Read On |
