Blogosphere: Light Rail & Racial Justice, Car Sharing Impact, Traffic Fatality & Poverty, Complete Streets For All, Bike Share Parking
May 16, 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: Light Rail and Racial Justice Sightline Daily Anyone familiar with Seattle's Rainier Valley knows it's a place in transition. Long one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the Northwest, it has for many decades struggled economically... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Car Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions DC Streetsblog The brilliant thing about car-sharing is that it leads people to drive less by providing access to cars. It allows people to give up their personal vehicles (along with the gas, maintenance, parking, and insurance costs they entail) without giving up the ability to use the car once in a while when necessary... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Progressive Urban Policy A City Thing Radials Blog The branches on either side of my genealogy snake quite a distance before they reach my brothers and me. My mother's side comes from southern Honshu, diminutive middle-class Japanese folks with a taste for canned sardines and a disdain for low-sodium soy sauce that they've passed onto their American cousins... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Poor at Greater Risk of Traffic Fatalities The Atlantic Cities It's no secret that being poor is bad for your health. Poor people in the United States run a greater risk of suffering from severe asthma, diabetes, heart disease, and many other illnesses... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Realizing Complete Streets for Everyone Helm of the Public Realm "Who the heck invited the DOT?" This was John Moore's question to the audience this past week at CNU 20 during the presentation he entitled, "Not Your Grandfather's DOT," as part of the Balanced Roads to Transit-Oriented Development session... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Many Parking Spaces For Bike Share Gothamist Last week the city not only released the name and pricing of its ambitious new bike share program, now called CitiBike, it also released a draft map of the locations where it hopes to put the program's initial 420 bike stations and 7,000 bikes in July... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities That Read the Most Books The Atlantic Cities You can call them the most "well-read" cities, or at least the cities that purchase the most books online. Either way, Amazon has released its 2012 list of the most "well-read" cities in the United States. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Realtors Descend on the State Capital Curbed SF Tucked away in yesterday's San Jose Mercury News was a little item about the California Association of Realtors (CAR) 2012 Legislative Day, an annual event where Realtors™ from all over the state descend upon the state capitol to promote their own interests in the guise of consumer protection and speeding transactions... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Growing vs Welcoming Talent Burgh Diaspora Charlotte has weathered the economic storm. The city has embraced urbanist principles. Yes, I got the memo. Things are looking up. But Charlotte has a long way to go:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Meyers Pushes Back on Kotkin's California Zocalo Public Square (via Urban Ethics and Theory) California, you might think, is a terrible place that people are fleeing from. One reason you might think so is that a cottage industry of pundits, business lobbyists, and politicians has been dedicated to convincing the world that California is and will remain a failure until our prevailing cultural and political climate changes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Just How Bad is Noise Pollution to Health The Atlantic Cities About two decades ago, my friend Bob - a mover and shaker of sorts in the art world - took me to an artist's studio in a (then, at least) scruffy area of lower Manhattan.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Uninhabitable High Rises Better Cities and Towns My tweet-cast of Léon Krier's address to the Congress for the New Urbanism Saturday morning created a small firestorm for a while on Twitter characterized by @nlamontagne's "Low-rise fetishism is bad for cities" and @BLAH_CITY's iconic "...my coffin will be "human scale"!.. Read On |
