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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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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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  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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Environment & Ecology: Luring Developers To Rebuild On Polluted Land, How to Save Water Starved Cities, Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway

May 17, 2013
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  ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Luring Developers to Rebuild on Polluted Land  NPR Marketplace   When companies pack up and abandon places like apartment complexes, gas stations, factories, and rail yards, those properties often become what's known as a brownfield.  
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Transport: Metra Leery of WiFi Costs, Salt Lake Freeway Revolt, GOP Opposition VA Highway Plan, Urban Cycling Hall Of Fame

May 16, 2013
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TRANSPORT Metra Leery of WiFi Costs  Chicago Tribune   Nearly half of riders use electronic devices, study finds, but providing wireless service on trains would be expensive, technologically difficult
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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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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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Urbanism & Design: Charlotte TOD Success, St. Louis Ballpark Redevelopment, Downtown Pittsburgh Building Boom, Boston Fenway Redevelopment

May 15, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Charlotte Officials Tout South End that Transit Built  Charlotte Observer   With construction booming in Charlotte's South End, city leaders on Tuesday called the area a model for the kind of smart growth that transit projects can spur in struggling neighborhoods east, west and north of uptown.
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Urban Issues: Mapping Social Hot Spots, Culture Shock & SF Tech Enclaves, 'Chief Resilience Officer', LA Finds $42.6 Million Accounting Error

May 15, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Tampa Teams Up with Researchers to Map Social Hot Spots  Tampa Bay Times   Lines on a map are one thing. But maybe real-time data on where people shop, eat and hang out can reveal more about the life of the city.
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Other Views: Time For City Planners To Adapt A New Model, Why "Suburbs" Are Not Triumphant Over Cities

May 15, 2013
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OTHER VIEWS Time For City Planners To Adapt A New Model  Forbes   I recently had my students study and dissect the plans for five cities, including the historic plans for one. In all, ten plans. These are the documents that cities routinely hire consultants to write, often compelled to do so by state statute.
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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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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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Urban Issues: Wisconsin Vs. Milwaukee, Obama Brand Of Regionalism, Housing Supply & Prices, Detroit's Terrible Finances, Science & Lethality Of Loneliness

May 14, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Is Wisconsin State Legislature at War with Milwaukee?  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via: @urbanophile   Even before such hot topics as residency and a proposed streetcar came before the …
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