Blogosphere: NY Transit Trends, Atlanta Conflicting Priorities, Urbanism & Travel Behavior, Top Planning Trends, Visualizing Transit Trip Distance
March 2, 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: NY Transit Use Up, Commute Times Down Urbanophile My latest blog post is online over at New Geography. It's called "Commuting in New York City, 2000-2010." In it, I examine some of the trends in commuting over the last decade in New York... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Different Priorities in Atlanta Conflicting Transport Politic Getting the residents of the 10-county Atlanta region to agree on anything was always going to be a difficult effort. The newest controversy about which projects to fund with a new sales tax there raises questions about what to do when a lot of money is available for transit - but there isn't enough for every proposed project... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urbanism Slowing the Rise of Car Travel? The Atlantic Cities Early last week the State Smart Transportation Initiative, a sustainable transport program funded by the Department of Transportation, released some charts on the continued decline of vehicle-miles traveled in the United States... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Right Tool for the Transport Job Seattle Transit Blog King County Metro has a very specific function. Their voter base is spread throughout the county, and it is their job to provide the highest quality transit service to the most of these citizens that they can... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Portland Struggles to Retain Transit Lead Governing Magazine When Peter Rogoff, the head of the Federal Transit Administration, visited Portland, Ore., earlier this year, local leaders and transit officials were abuzz. The city's identity has long been tied to its reputation as a transit leader, and hosting the highest transit official in the land helped bolster those credentials... Read On |
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Blogosphere: St. Louis to Study Highway Removal Next American City Removing an Interstate highway is necessarily a long and deliberate process, but events have quickly conspired in St. Louis to push the proposed conversion of one mile of I-70, which separates the city from its historic riverfront and iconic Arch, from urbanist dream to planning possibility... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Top Planning Trends of 2011-2012 Planetizen Over the course of the year, the editors of Planetizen review and post summaries of hundreds of articles, reports, books, studies, and editorials related to planning and urban development. Here are our picks for the most notable planning trends of the past year, and the topics that we'll be paying special attention to in 2012... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Visualizing the Distance Taken by Transit Spatial Analysis UK Last week I attended the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference and heard a talk by Robert Groves, Director of the US Census Bureau. Aside the impressiveness of the bureau's work I was struck by how Groves conceived of visualisations as requiring either fast thinking or slow thinking... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Quality of Life as Community Glue Otis White Here are two easy questions. What attracts people to a place? And what keeps them there? Actually, these aren't easy questions at all. There are many reasons a person might pack up and move to a new city: a job, an education, a change of lifestyle or climate, family connections, restlessness, curiosity, and so on... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Case for Smaller Blocks City Builder Book Club Apart from a brief post at Torontoist, the erasure of Roy's Square for the 1 Bloor condos went unmourned. And two stops down the Yonge subway, the Aura condos rise, snuffing hopes of those who cared that a block of Hayter Street was shut in 1978... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mapping Housing Misery The Atlantic Cities The economy may be inching toward a rebound, but it's largely failed to help the housing market. Home prices continue to drop (down 34 percent from their peak), with some saying we are now in the midst of a "triple dip.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Post Disaster Housing Policy Chicago Policy Review With the loss of over 1,800 lives and property damage estimated at $81 billion, Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States, forcing more than one million Gulf Coast residents to evacuate their homes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How to Protect Countryside from Sprawl The Atlantic Cities There has finally been some overdue attention paid recently to the strengthening of rural communities to make them more economically and environmentally resilient... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Only Elected Regional Government The Atlantic Cities Like many metropolitan areas in the U.S., Portland, Oregon, has a regional governance system, a bureaucratic overlay that has enabled region-wide planning and coordination... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is Mushroom the Last Urban Gadget? Pop Up City The architects of Olson Kundig have built a small mushroom farm in the storefront of their studio in Seattle. Mushrooms are growing on the left-overs of the cities thriving coffee culture... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tale of Three Cities Map Grapher People love to compare cities, and given their proximity, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Lexington get compared to each other quite a bit in conversations in the Ohio River Valley... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Communities that Conserve Biodiversity Huffpost Miami For the first time in our history, more people live in urban vs. rural areas and humans continue to move into cities. Cities have huge impacts on our natural resources... Read On |
