Blogosphere: What Drove Shift to Urban Living?
March 8, 2011|All About Cities
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In Canada's cities, prices in the older urban areas as well as the suburbs generally stagnated for over a decade between the early 1990s and early 2000s. Not coincidentally, during this time an abundance of new housing opened in suburbs...
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San Francisco: Development Fee Proposed for MTA
March 3, 2011|SF Examiner
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Under a proposal being recommended by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, residential homebuilders could be slapped with new fees that opponents say would discourage development in The City...
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Blogosphere: E-Communication Strengthens Cities
March 3, 2011|New York Times Economix
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Will electronic connections make cities obsolete? In the giddy early days of e-mail and the Internet, some prophets proclaimed that humans would no longer bother with the inconveniences of density and would instead retreat, in Alvin Toffler's phrase, to "electronic cottages."..
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Blogosphere: Future of the Brewery District
March 3, 2011|Urban Cinci
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In 2006 volunteers and community leaders developed an urban master plan for Over-the-Rhine. The plan developed goals and strategies to help reinvigorate the historic neighborhood, but now a familiar group of community leaders is looking to take the plan to the next level...
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Blogosphere: City Demand vs. City Supply
March 3, 2011|Economist Free Exchange (via Price Tags)
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When analysing markets, it's important to remember that there is both a supply side and a demand side. Economists know this. But sometimes they forget. Wendell Cox (who is not an economist) could be forgiven for forgetting about the supply side, but Richard Green should know better...
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Blogosphere: Death of a Third Place?
March 3, 2011|Joe Urban
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I was on my way to Starbucks when I found out my local coffee shop, Tillie's Bean, was closing. Tillie's was a block away from my house and the closest thing to a "third place" I had. I will miss it. My Walkscore just took a hit...
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National: Self Affirmation for Urbanists
March 3, 2011|Next American City
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Our particular tribe, predominantly found in the northeastern United States but also occasionally in Mid-Atlantic or Midwestern regions, has developed many adaptive behaviors in response to the challenges of our urban environment...
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Quote of the DAy
March 3, 2011|Streetsblog SF Comment Section
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"My favorite comment at the hearing today was that the parklet would impede people evacuating Golden Gate Park in the event of a Tsunami."
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Dallas: City Barely Growing, Expansion Harder
March 2, 2011|New York Times
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Despite a surging population in Texas and double-digit growth rates in Austin, Fort Worth and San Antonio, the city of Dallas grew by a paltry 1 percent in the last decade, according to the new census figures - a rate lower than any of the 20 largest cities in Texas. ..
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Blogosphere: It's Easy to Walk in a Dense City
March 1, 2011|The Bellows
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Yonah Freemark warns that lifting Washington's height limit without expanding transportation capacity could be a big problem. I certainly support doing both, but I think Yonah isn't giving dense construction quite the credit it deserves...
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