Blogosphere: Congested Cities & Bikes, City Preference Evidence, Urban Biodiversity Week, NM Ghost City, Cul-De-Sacs In The Sky
May 18, 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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Blogosphere: Europe's Most Congested City by Bike The Atlantic Cities Cities in the United States are becoming more tolerant, even encouraging, of bicyclists through increased bike infrastructure, bikeshare programs, and laws to protect riders... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Forget Transit, We Will Have Robocars DC Streetsblog Writer Michael Lind argued that the "case for infrastructure investment has suffered from the lack of a plausible vision of the next American infrastructure." Things that are not "plausible," according to Lind, include "renewable energy and mass transit.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: VDOT Ignores Own Data Greater Greater Washington When VDOT began their "multimodal" study of I-66 inside the Beltway, many assumed that this was just a formality and, regardless of what the models showed, VDOT would recommend widening the road. Turns out, that seems to be exactly what's happening... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Toll Road Revolt in South Africa Grush Hour In Gauteng Province (South Africa) an ambitious and expensive toll road scheme has been put on indefinite hold 2-days before its launch due to popular, trade union, business leader, and Automobile Association protest according to The Economist (It doesn't toll for thee 2012.05.12)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Seven More Questions for Conference DC Streetsblog Last week, I published a list of seven questions I had as the Transportation Conference Committee started meeting. I was examining the politics, not the policy. Turns out some readers wanted to hear more about the policy... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Evidence on Preference for Cities Market Urbanism This semester I took an econometrics class because I got an MA with the bare minimum of quantitative classes. For the class, I wrote a paper asking the question, "Are consumers willing to pay a premium to live in dense urban areas?".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: National Urban Biodiversity Week City Parks Blog Sunday marked the beginning of the first-ever National Urban Biodiversity Week, a seven-city collaboration to bring urban dwellers into contact with local flora and fauna, from fungi to salamanders to old growth forests... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Ghost City in NM Seeks Tech Solutions Next American City Remember those videos from the 1950s, depicting small towns set in the beautiful New Mexican desert, picturesque one minute and then vaporized the next by a nuclear blast? Well, New Mexico is about to play host to yet another built-for-science ghost town. But this time, it's going high-tech... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Miami's Suburbs in the Sky Transit Miami Are the mega-condos of Brickell the key to urban vitality and innovation or are they just cul-de-sacs in the sky? In a keynote speech during the 20th Congress for New Urbanism in West Palm Beach, author Richard Florida challenged the idea that the "rush to density" will unlock and release the potential of our cities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: States Use of Settlement Funds NHC Open House Blog A small majority of states understand the plight of homeowners struggling from the foreclosure crisis, suggests a recent report by Enterprise Community Partner's Amanda Sheldon Roberts (Enterprise is a long-time NHC Leadership Circle Member and strategic partner)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Trees Reveal Income Inequality Per Square Mile Wealthy cities seem to have it all. Expansive, well-manicured parks. Fine dining. Renowned orchestras and theaters. More trees. Wait, trees? I'm afraid so... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Promenade Built By The People The Atlantic Cities Plank by plank, the people of Rotterdam are building a bridge that will give pedestrians safe passage over a tangle of highways and connect two parts of the city that have been separated by cars for years, in the hopes of revitalizing both... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How American Cities Are Coming Back The Atlantic Cities The previous century's great shift in people and economic activity to the suburbs is starting to reverse itself. In his new book, The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City, Alan Ehrenhalt, the former editor of Governing magazine, outlines the key trends that are powering this shift in the way we live... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Forecast Mostly Good for Walkability NRDC Switchboard The housing price recovery has begun, says a new report from The Demand Institute, a think tank recently launched by Nielson and The Conference Board to track consumer demand... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Facebook Saved Us from Suburbia Technology Review In 2009, the Pew Internet Trust published a survey worth resurfacing for what it says about the significance of Facebook. The study was inspired by earlier research that "argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated, the size of their discussion networks has declined, and the diversity of those people with whom they discuss important matters has decreased."... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Equity to be Academic Center Focus Planetizen Launched May 1 within the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, the new J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City will pursue the ways in which design can make "American cities more just and inclusive places to live.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Density and Innovation City Block One more round on density - this time focusing on affordability via the tangentially related prospect of innovative and creative economies. Richard Florida chimed in at The Atlantic Cities, asking this:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Can Cincinnati Act Like a Startup? Cincinnati Enquirer I rarely cover local politics, but I know that people with titles like innovation officer certainly don't exist in our cities and counties. The city of San Francisco hired its first innovation team in January, and in a miraculously short amount of time has watched dozens of creative, high-tech initiatives come to life... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rotterdam, an Urban Lab Los Hijos De La Malinche Every day that we live in a city we participate in one of the most radical revolutions the planet has experienced: urbanisation. Despite illness, hunger and armed conflicts, global population has increased during the last hundred years at an unprecedented rate... Read On |
