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Blogosphere: Bike Score, Evaluating TOD Justice, Census Change Impact, Form Based Code Value, Brazil Urban Development

May 15, 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. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: Walk Score Releases Bike Score Walk Score Blog
Just in time for Bike to Work Week, we are thrilled to launch Bike Score and our first ranking of the most bikeable U.S. cities. See how your city ranks and vote for your city to be next to get Bike Score...

Read On Blogosphere: TOD That Is Healthy, Green & Just Seattle Transit Blog
Today Puget Sound Sage released a new report on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the Rainier Valley. It outlines changes seen in the…
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Blogosphere: Unsustainable Gas Tax, State Of Infrastructure, Transit Recession, Copenhagenization, Frequency vs Coverage

May 10, 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. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: WMATA Says Blogs Aren't News Media Greater Greater Washington
WMATA lawyers incorrectly read the laws in 2009 to declare Greater Greater Washington, and other blogs, not part of the news media. Today, they reiterated this incorrect interpretation in response to a PARP request (their version of FOIA) from Michael Perkins...

Read On Blogosphere: Five Things House/Senate Bill Should Do T4 America
The "conference" on the…
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Blogosphere: Urban Housing Shift, Centralized HSR, Transit Hubs, Fringe Suburbs, IKEA Urbanism, Landscape Algorithms, Olympic Transit

December 1, 2011
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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. Blogosphere: Housing Prices Reveal Urban Shift All About Cities
A new survey in the United States revealed that only 12% of future home buyers wanted to purchase a home in the suburban-fringe. A decade ago, it is quite possible that the number would have been reversed with over 80% wanting a large suburban home...

Read On Blogosphere: An HSR Country is a Centralized Country Pedestrian Observations
1950s' Japan was a fairly monocentric country, in…
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Blogosphere: Apartment Walk Score, 'Train to Nowhere', Cities & Climate Change, Amtrak Costs

November 8, 2011
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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: Why Tokyo's Privately Owned Rail Works

November 2, 2011|The Atlantic Cities
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international, Japan, Performance, Tokyo, tracks, Transit, Transit Funding, Transit Supportive Density
There are megacities, and then there's Tokyo. With a metro-wide population of 35 million, it's the undisputed king of megacities, comfortably beating even the closest competitors in mainland Asia and the Americas... Read On

Blogosphere: Tokyo's Last Streetcar

August 3, 2011|CNN Go
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international, Japan, Streetcar, Tokyo, tracks, Transit
Would you think we were stretching a point if we said that it's possible to travel through space and time in Tokyo for just a few hundred yen? Probably, but that's the tingly feeling we got last time we climbed aboard the city's only surviving streetcar... Read On 

Blogosphere: World's Busiest Pedestrian Crossing

May 25, 2011|NRDC Switchboard
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international, Japan, Pedestrians & Walkability, Tokyo, tracks
We're in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, where some ten lanes of automobile traffic and five major crosswalks converge, reportedly accommodating as many as 2,500 pedestrians with each rush-hour traffic signal change... Read On 

Research: Tokyo Station Area Dynamics

May 20, 2011|Journal of Transportation and Land Use
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Economic Development And TOD, Research, TOD, Tokyo, tracks, Transit
The high level of integration between railway and real estate development in Tokyo makes the city an interesting example for metropolitan areas looking for ways to promote transit-oriented development. ... Read On 
Cities of Opportunity

Cities of Opportunity

May 1, 2011|Partnership for New York City
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When the first edition of Cities of Opportunity was developed, we made a decision to rank cities only in their 10 indicator categories and to forego showing overall rankings to avoid the misperception of a contest. That risk seemed especially significant in 2007, when the media cast New York and London in a death match for global capital market kingship.
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Research: Programs for Tokyo Metropolis

April 26, 2011|TRB TRIS
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international, Japan, Research, Tokyo, tracks, urban, Urban Form
In the global economy, polycentric mega-city regions call for mega-transit investments and land-use deregulations to sustain urban densities, facilitate face-to-face interactions, and amplify knowledge spillovers among innovative firms and creative professionals ... Read On 

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