Blogosphere: Politics & VA Transit Funding, Swiss Landscape Defenses, Transit Pedestrians, NY Moving Sidewalk, Infrastructure & Placemaking
June 19, 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: Picture Gallery - Early Car Crashes Laughing Squid The Boston Public Library boasts a collection of nearly 40,000 photos taken by Boston Herald-Traveler photographer Leslie Jones between 1917 and 1956-including this set of nearly 1000 auto accident photos taken in the Boston area.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: VA Gov Admin Drops Transit Funding Bomb Greater Greater Washington The McDonnell administration has suddenly decided to revamp the way it handles transportation funding, sending Northern Virginia cities and counties into a last-minute and potentially expensive scramble. The reason appears to be politics and a desire to wrest power from Northern Virginia, which is politically not aligned with the governor... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Swiss Rigged Infra to Blow in War BLDG BLOG I finally had a chance to read John McPhee's book La Place de la Concorde Suisse, his somewhat off-puttingly titled 1984 look at the Swiss military and its elaborately engineered landscape defenses... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Every Transit Rider is a Pedestrian Urban Times Ask anyone smart enough to get off the tour bus at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and they will mention something many people don't know about Los Angeles: this is a city made for walking... Read On |
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Blogosphere: VA Bipartisan Rail Push a Success Transport Politic Despite the significant opposition to investment in intercity rail from Republican governors in states from Ohio to Florida, Virginia's GOP leadership has taken a considerably different course... Read On |
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Blogosphere: New York's Moving Sidewalk Idea The Atlantic Cities This design for a series of "underground moving sidewalks" ran in the February 28, 1903 edition of Harper's Weekly, alongside an article about how the city ought to be tackling congestion issues on the eve of new bridge connections bringing commuters and travelers from Brooklyn into New York City... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Vacuum Trains Soon a Reality? The Transit Wire Europe to North America in an hour? BBC News reports on a high-speed future where passengers could arrive four hours before they started... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Officials Consider Using Track Better Market Urbanism Now that Chris Christie killed the ARC project, which would have built another rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan, Transportation Nation is reporting that MTA boss Joe Lhota is asking the different New York area railroads to do what they were supposed to do half a century ago when they were nationalized: cooperate!.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: East Rail Line Progress Denver Urbanism The most visible signs of progress along the East Rail Line to DIA can be now be seen along Peña Boulevard as you approach DIA. Crews have begun grading operations and caisson drilling work to construct the rail bridge spanning Peña Boulevard... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Legislature Could Decide on HSR Soon CAHSR Blog With the state budget approved by the legislature (though perhaps not by Governor Jerry Brown), the Assembly and Senate will now turn to some other high-profile policy decisions before their July 3 recess - including the high speed rail project... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Sao Paulo's Secret Tea Shop Pop Up City When closed, the Gourmet Tea Store is hidden behind a multi-colored wall. During opening times the wall transforms into a fully equipped shop as the counter slides forward from beneath a purple hatch... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Preserving 2-4 Unit Buildings Rooflines In a Shelterforce-hosted roundtable discussion of leading research and policy experts to looking at what makes housing affordable and how the nationwide housing crisis changed the affordable housing landscape, NHI senior fellow Alan Mallach expressed some alarm when it came to replenishing, or lack thereof, of two- to four-unit unsubsidized properites... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Stabilize High Foreclosure Neighborhoods Rooflines 1. Don't Let the Lenders Lie. When lenders and servicers say they can't modify the principal on a loan because it's in a security and their securitization agreements don't let them, they're lying... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Month of Disasters in GIF Format Atlantic Cities We are in a state of emergency. All the time. A new map from the U.S. Census Bureau allows users to tack real-time emergency information, from floods to fires to storms to FEMA-declared disasters... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Public Infrastructure and Placemaking Economics of Place Last Friday I had the pleasure of meeting my friend Robin Boyle, Chair of the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at Wayne State University, for a morning discussion on the latest placemaking news. We were joined by about a dozen of the Detroit Revitalization Fellows... Read On |
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Blogosphere: In Defense of Housing Regulation Next American City It's hard for a person who actually believes that government can and should try to solve problems to have a serious discussion with a person who sees government itself as the central problem in society... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Food Trucks Bring More Than Food This Big City San Francisco is a lot like Cape Town. The topography, the hippies, the weather, the prison on an island, the list goes on. I found myself inspired by a lot of what I saw in the city by the bay... Read On |
