Blogosphere: Speeding Cars & Child Safety, TIFIA Loan Value, CAHSR Business Plan, The Vienna Metropolis, Charlotte's Sidewalks
May 4, 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: Think of the Children Systemic Failure Politicians will go to any length to protect children from underage sex, predators, and abductions. But when public health professionals suggest children should be protected from speeding automobiles - well, get ready for a whole lot of stupid:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Little TIFIA Goes a Long Way DOT Fastlane While America waits for Congress to pass a comprehensive, long-term transportation plan, DOT and the Federal Highway Administration continue to help communities stretch the value of scarce local and state resources with our Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan program... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Advances, Concerns for CAHSR Next American City Earlier this spring, high-speed rail in California took two very significant steps. First, Bay Area leaders announced a plan to electrify Caltrain, the commuter rail between San Francisco and surrounding counties, which would make it possible for Caltrain and high-speed rail to share the same tracks between San Jose and San Francisco... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Alexis de Tocqueville on Sprawl The Atlantic Your morning coffee with a side of Democracy In America. Here we find Tocqueville making his way through mountains beyond mountains. You read something like this and you wonder how much of our current reality was, long ago, wired into us. Of course some of it was. It's hard to know how much:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Case for Fewer Wards in STL Next American City St. Louis likes its government close to home. The 90 municipalities in St. Louis County average fewer than 10,000 residents each, and the region is smothered with political jurisdictions... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Vienna Offers Glimpse of Next Metropolis The New Republic "Smart cities" is the urban buzz phrase of the last few years, and fans often turn to European cities for inspiration. From Amsterdam's bike lanes to Copenhagen's wind power, from Barcelona's 22@ innovation district to Berlin's dramatic redevelopment, European examples abound... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Fake Forest for Hangouts The Atlantic Cities Describing the reign of the mechanistic, Talorized new state order and its transmogrification of nature in his dystopian scare novel We, Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote how, under the sovereign gaze of the "One-State".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Charlotte's Evolution to City of Sidewalks The Atlantic Cities Not too long ago, Charlotte, North Carolina, was an emerging metropolis attempting to solve its explosive population growth issues through sprawling development. However, over the past 20 years, it has consciously reinvented itself as a city of sidewalks... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Limits of Kickstarter Urbanism The Atlantic Cities Kickstarter, as Alexandra Lange noted in a recent article on Design Observer, is good at taking cool designs for watches or bike seats from idea to reality... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Neighborhoods Worth Playing In The Atlantic Cities When he was driving around Menlo Park, California, a few years ago, househunting, Mike Lanza had to ask himself: "Where are all the kids?".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Food Desert Dustups Cause Confusion Live Well Colorado From concerned citizens to healthcare professionals, individuals across Colorado and throughout our country are reacting to the article Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity that was recently published in The New York Times... Read On |
