Blogosphere: Private LRT Funding In Detroit, US HSR Future, DC Streetcar Revitalization, Kansas City Rail Future, Indy Regional Bike Map
May 31, 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: Private Funding of Detroit Project Gift Forbes U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood is coming to Detroit on Monday and the city's most prominent business leaders have their fingers crossed that he'll deliver the federal government's blessing on a long-awaited light rail project downtown... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is HSR Pulling Into a City Near You? Chicago Policy Review In countries like China, Japan, and much of Europe, High Speed Rail (HSR) is the most common form of transportation between large urban areas. In the United States most of us still get from place to place in our cars or on a plane... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Streetcar Will Revitalize Columbia Pike Greater Greater Washington Columbia Pike's proposed streetcar line will help revitalize one of Arlington county's busiest corridors. Nonetheless, the plan has stirred an unusual amount of controversy, especially with increased cost estimates published last December... Read On |
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Commentary: Rail in KC's Future? Or Not Kansas City Star This could be a great year for transit in the Kansas City area. Unless, of course, it turns out not to be. Failure wouldn't be a big surprise for this region, still one of the most backward and underserved in the nation when it comes to alternative forms of transportation... Read On |
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Austin: iPhone App Will Help Find Parking KUT News On some days, you might have more success finding buried pirate treasure than a parking spot in downtown Austin. Enter: iPhones. ParkMe, a California-based company founded in 2009, uses data from Austin's "smart" parking meters to update parking availability every five minutes on a free iOS app... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Untold Indy's Regional Bike Map Urban Indy Earlier this month, a new web magazine known as Untold Indy launched a bicycle map for Indianapolis. This eye-catching map displayed the disparate routes around town that are known to have infrastructure that is geared toward cycling... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Workforce Housing Should be Part of TOD Citizens for Modern Transit Blog Todd Swanstrom, Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration, UMSL, recently released on Op-Ed piece for Community Builders Exchange newsletter discussing the benefits of including workforce housing in any development around light rail... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Are Cities Losing Power to States? The Atlantic Cities The perpetual battle between state and city authorities seems to have intensified in the past few years. North Carolina voted to reduce its budget deficit with a share of the state's corporate income tax, rather than send the funds to local governments for school costs as it had in the past... Read On |
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Blogosphere: College Grads Flock to Some Cities New York Times Choice Blog There is a growing disparity among cities that have a surfeit of college graduates, like Washington, and those, like Dayton, Ohio, that are trying to attract more grads, an analysis by the Brookings Institution indicated... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Importance of the ACS NHC Open House The Center for Housing Policy uses data from the American Community Survey (ACS) on topics such as housing costs, incomes, and employment to support evidence-based policy solutions that allow federal, state, and local governments to spend limited resources more wisely... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rethinking Public Participation Seattle Transit Blog One of the most cherished realms of contemporary planning is the allowance for public participation, a tool often embraced for fostering democratic processes at the most local level of civic engagement. It also happens to be one of the most contentious aspects that planners and policymakers face... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Headphones Changed the World The Atlantic If you are reading this on a computer, there is an excellent chance that you are wearing, or within arm's reach of, a pair of headphones or earbuds... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Backlash to Meaningful Reform City Tank For those who hope for the kind of transformational change that will be necessary to create a truly sustainable and resilient Seattle, the City's disproportionate reaction to Mayor McGinn's recently proposed set of regulatory reforms is a far more important issue to tackle than the reforms themselves... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Beauty of Forlorn Windows Twin Cities Sidewalks I like to think that empty windows are widows, longing for their loves, that if windows have a desire, it's to be actively invisible, not to petrify... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Great Inversion, Cities and Suburbs Grist For nearly 20 years, Alan Ehrenhalt served as the executive editor of Governing magazine, examining and writing about a variety of local and state-level trends and policies... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Critics Get Wrong About Creative Cities The Atlantic Cities Last week, a post over at Forbes blared the headline "Richard Florida is Wrong About Creative Cities." The post, written by Adam Ozimek of the Modeled Behavior blog, reviews University of California Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti's book The New Geography of Jobs... Read On |
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Blogosphere: NYC's Gentrification Circus Radials Blog I wasn't alive when Times Square was a place you went for cheap peep shows and cocaine generously cut with Arm and Hammer. My first experience there was typically adolescent:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: William H. Whyte on Urban Expansion Polis Blog "A metropolitan area can take care of a great many more people by only a very slight expansion of its radius. ... if there is any hope of having open space in the future, there is going to have to be a more efficient pattern of building... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Hacktivist Launches Street Library The Pop Up City Strasbourg-based street artist Florian Rivière is back with a new, neat urban intervention! Last weekend, Rivière installed a little library on a sidewalk near Gare du Nord in Paris... Read On |
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Commentary: State Can Still Fund Affordable Housing Sacramento Bee The dissolution of the state's redevelopment agencies will continue to hurt California for years to come, especially as the loss of redevelopment "set-aside funds" undermines the creation of affordable housing... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Smart Growth for Conservatives Bacon's Rebellion Smart growth is too important to leave to liberals. Conservatives must articulate their own vision for creating prosperous, livable and fiscally sustainable communities... Read On |
