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Urban Issues: Foreclosure Benefits, Social Interaction Value, Boston Brain Drain Hysteria, Paris & Brussels Feud

June 7, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Indy Neighborhoods Will Benefit from Foreclosure Settlements  Indianapolis Star   For years, Lillie Evans has sadly watched the weeds rise from the lawn, the rats scurry across the porch and criminals break into the boarded-up house across the street from her home.
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Transport: Expo Line, Private Buses, VMT Declines, Buffalo LRT, Ray LaHood on Houston, SF Street Names

May 3, 2013
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TRANSPORT Expo Light Rail One Year Later Neon Tommy , via: @cruickshank   When the Expo Line, Los Angeles Metro’s newest light rail line, opened in April 2012, initial ridership numbers were low, starting at around 11,000 per average weekday, a fact which many media sources reported on.
Read On   The Hidden Private Bus Network Metro Planning The Connector   When the removal of a certain “perk”…
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Urban Issues: HUD Downsizing, Eds and Meds, Turin's Resurgence and Paris' Governance

April 30, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES The Boom and Bust Cycle of Urban Investment New York Times   FOR the past several years all the ingredients have been in place for an urban crisis. Unemployment has hovered above 15 percent in many of our most distressed cities.
Read On   Paris’ Future Governance, a Discussion w Deputy Mayor Stephane Kirkland   As Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of “Paris Metropole” and relations with the region’s…
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Urbanism & Design: Google's Southern Strategy, Top 10 Cities To Travel Car Free, LRT To Revitalize Poor Denver Area, Impact Of Driverless Cars

April 23, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Google's Southern Strategy, Attractive City Clusters  Seattle Times   The first paragraph from the Charlotte Observer's story might make one think that the South is getting ready to stick it to the high-tax, high-regulation West Coast again:
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Urbanism & Design: NJ Waterfront Development Feud, Sheep As Lawmowers, Chicago TIF Strategy, Creating Silicon Valley Urban Center

April 8, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN A City Model During the Great War  Bldg Blog   Past Horizons reported the other week that "a large concrete terrain model on Cannock Chase, representing a section of the Great War battle of Messines Ridge, is to be excavated" by archaeologists later this year.
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Environment & Ecology: Innovative Park Governance, Paris to Harness Energy from Marathoners

April 8, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Innovative Park Governance  City Parks Blog   So went the thinking behind the creation of Central Park Conservancy as recounted by Adrian Benepe, former New York City Parks Commissioner and now Director of Urban Parks for the Trust for Public Land.
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The Tramway Revival In France

April 5, 2013
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A 2012 report on the return of tramways to France by the Ministry for Ecology, Stustainable Development and Energy has been added to the Research Center best practices database.
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The Tramway Revival In France

April 5, 2013
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Currently, eighteen French urban areas have at least one tramway line and by 2014, nine more towns will have opened their first lines. In France, the organisation of public transport is based on a decentralised administrative system established in the 1980s. For thirty years, land authorities have had great autonomy to develop their public transport networks in a context of very heavy car use. Today, the car is gradually making way for public transport systems and tramways have been experiencing a revival for several years now. Tramways have been making their mark over the years because they fit into the scheme of urban renewal, transport planning and environmental concerns. This is a political choice which is firmly rooted in the sustainable development ethos and enables planners to take a new approach to urban mobility and urbanisation projects. Trams have also become a tool for promoting a town, because building a tramway implies a desire to renew the image of the town where it is…
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Urbanism & Design: Low Impact Design Standards, Pittsburgh TOD, Height Isn't Density, Preserving Berlin Wall, Affordable Housing & Corridor Planning

March 21, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN DDOT Drafting Low Impact Design Standards  Georgetown Patch   DDOT welcomes public feedback on draft design standards for low impact development and green infrastructure for the public right-of-way.
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News: Nashville BRT TOD, SF Car Share Parking Rules, Oregon Lottery Transport Funding, Sacramento Urban Identity

February 22, 2013
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Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues.  It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. TRANSPORT Nashville: BRT Route Expected to Spur Development Nashville Business Journals
Nashville's development community is embracing Mayor Karl Dean's proposed bus-rapid-transit system along the West End corridor...

Read On San Francisco: Carsharing's Unlikely Foe Transportation Nation
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors recently passed an ordinance to allow residential developers to add more parking spots to their new apartment buildings-- if those spots are…
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