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Urban Issues: Las Vegas Tech Bet, Need For Disaster-Resistant Housing, AirBnB Illegal In NYC, Dev Cost & Housing Affordability

May 22, 2013
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Affordability, British Columbia, Canada, Development & Redevelopment, housing, Las Vegas, Nevada, New York, New York State, Oklahoma City, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, urban, Urban Form, Vancouver BC
URBAN ISSUES A $50 Million Dollar Bet on Las Vegas  Entrepreneur.com   How the Vegas Tech Fund plans to help transform the tech scene in Sin City, in part two of our series on Tony Hsieh's $350 million Downtown Project.
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Urban Issues: Struggling To Reach Suburban Poor, Different Cities We Inhabit, SNAP & Diet Quality, Devolution Of London

May 21, 2013
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Affordability, Africa, England, health, Health & Environment, housing, Kenya, London, Nairobi, Smart Growth & Sprawl, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, UK, urban, Urban Form
URBAN ISSUES Advocates Struggle To Reach Growing Ranks Of Suburban Poor  NPR   Poverty has grown everywhere in the U.S. in recent years, but mostly in the suburbs. During the 2000s, it grew twice as fast in suburban areas as in cities, with more than 16 million poor people now living in the nation's suburbs
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Urbanism & Design: Security Trumps Urbanism In NY, Charlotte Streetcar Gains Impress, Making Walking To School Safer

May 20, 2013
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Affordability, Bay Area, California, Charlotte, CNU, Demographics, Development & Redevelopment, Economic Development And TOD, Greece, health, Health & Environment, housing, New York, New York State, North Carolina, Pedestrians & Walkability, San Mateo, Schools, Streetcar, TOD, TOD And Equity, tracks, Tracks Urbanism & Design, Transit, urban, Urban Form
URBANISM & DESIGN World Trade Center Security Will Kill Its Urbanism  New York Times City Room, via: @witoldr   The wreckage had not been cleared from ground zero when planners and neighbors began…
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Urban Issues: Corruption & State Capitals, Gen Y Housing Preferences, Growing Suburban Poverty, Value Of City Rankings

May 20, 2013
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Affordability, bicycles, Buffalo, California, Chicago, Demographics, Federal Policy, Florida, health, Health & Environment, housing, HUD, Illinois, Marin, Miami, Norfolk, Ridership, Santa Monica, Smart Growth & Sprawl, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, Transit, urban, Urban Form, Virginia
URBAN ISSUES Are State Capitals in Big Cities Less Corrupt?  Chicago Magazine, via: @otiswhite   Given that Chicago politics is code for pretty much anything anyone thinks is corrupt or even impolitely…
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Urbanism & Design: Disappearing World Heritage Sites, Making Homes Accessible, Why Cities Flood, Beltlines Beyond Atlanta, Women & Building Design

May 17, 2013
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Atlanta, Climate Change, Georgia, Health & Environment, housing, State Policy, Texas, tracks, Tracks Urbanism & Design, urban, Urban Form, Zoning & Coding
URBANISM & DESIGN Ten Disappearing World Heritage Sites  USA Today   Standing atop the ramparts of China's Great Wall. Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. These are the giants of our collective imagination, the plumes in our travel cap.  
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Urban Issues: Housing Affordability, Atlanta Beltline Internet Incentive, Nashville Mixed-Income Plan, Twitter & Geography Of Communication

May 17, 2013
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Affordability, Atlanta, California, Demographics, Federal Policy, Georgia, housing, Houston, Nashville, San Diego, State Policy, Stockton, Tennessee, Texas, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, urban, Urban Form
  URBAN ISSUES What's Happening to Housing Affordability  AARP Blog   The National Association of Realtors announced earlier this year that its Housing Affordability Index shows 2012 was a record year for housing affordability.  
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Urban Issues: Vision For Richmond's Future, Vancouver Embracing Accessory Units, Traffic Cones, New Google Maps

May 16, 2013
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Affordability, British Columbia, California, Canada, Development & Redevelopment, EU, Gaithersburg, Heavy Rail, Highways & Automobiles, housing, Inglewood, Kentlands, Maryland, Richmond VA, tracks, Tracks Urbanism & Design, Transit, urban, Urban Form, Vancouver BC, Virginia
URBANISM & DESIGN A Grand Vision for Richmond's Future  Bacon's Rebellion   By 2035 the Richmond region will grow by roughly 200,000 households (435,000 people) and 200,000 new jobs. That's a mind-numbing number for a metropolitan region with barely more than 1 million inhabitants today.
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Urban Issues: 'Aspiring' To Gentrification, Merging City-County Econ Dev Agency, Calif. Struggling Cities, Developers Don't Innovate

May 16, 2013
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Affordability, Bay Area, California, Demographics, Development & Redevelopment, Heavy Rail, housing, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Missouri, North Carolina, Raleigh, San Francisco, St. Louis, State Policy, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, Transit, urban, Urban Form, Zoning & Coding
URBAN ISSUES Cities Don't "Aspire" to Gentrification  Better Institutions   In a recent article posted on New Geography, Aaron M. Renn asks what seems to be a fairly straightforward question: "Why Gentrification?" But unlike most writing on the subject, the question isn't why it happens or how to avoid it, but why cities aspire to it.
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Transport: West Salt Lake Transpo Options, NY Bike Share Rack Resistance, National Household Travel Survey, Young Driving Habits & Aging Impact

May 15, 2013
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Atlanta, Austin, bicycles, Commuter Rail, Demographics, England, Georgia, High-Speed & Intercity Rail, Highways & Automobiles, housing, London, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York, New York State, Pedestrians & Walkability, Performance, Salt Lake City, St. Paul, State Policy, Streetcar, Texas, tracks, Tracks Transport, Transit, Transit Funding, Travel Behavior, Twin Cities, UK, Utah
TRANSPORT No Freeway in West Salt Lake May Be Best Choice  Salt Lake Tribune   A freeway to carry heavy traffic north and south though west Davis County has been on Utah Department of Transportation drawing boards for years. The agency is ready to release its draft environmental impact study and name its preferred route.
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Urbanism & Design: Changing Urban Fish Tank Water, Measuring Weighted Density, Marin 'Backyard Cottage' Housing Option, Repairing Denver Parking Crater

May 14, 2013
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Affordability, California, Colorado, Denver, Highways & Automobiles, housing, Marin, Oklahoma, Parking, tracks, Tracks Urbanism & Design, Transit, Transit Supportive Density, Tulsa, urban, Urban Form
URBANISM & DESIGN Changing the Water in the Fish Tank (Changing Our Surroundings)  Planetizen, Tim Halbur   The late David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, apparently gave a commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005 - now circulating as a fully-produced viral video (below).
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