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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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Urban Issues: Vancouver Affordability, Geography Of US Suicides, Atlanta In-Town Job Migration, NYC Apartments Sue Bikeshare

May 9, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Pushing Back on Wendell Cox's Vancouver Claims  Price Tags   If (you've) heard once, (you've) heard a hundred times that it takes about 10 years of average household income to buy an average home, and that this renders us the second least affordable city in the entire world, or at least the English-speaking world.
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Urban Issues: Social Media & Planners, Seattle Foreclosure Pain, Online Taxes & Local Stores, Chicago Housing Growth

May 8, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Social Media Can Help Planners, Two Cases  Planetizen, Brent Todarian   With the right approach, social media can expedite the exchange of information between stakeholders, facilitate participatory planning, and build better places.
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Environment & Ecology: Courtroom Curbing Cars, Parkour and Historic Preservation

May 2, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Court Rules Cities Fail on Air Pollution, Need to Ban Cars Guardian UK, via: @urbandata   The UK faces European fines and British cities may have to ban cars to dramatically reduce harmful effects of air pollution
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Transport: Maryland Seeks Fed Funds For LRT, Regulating Ride Sharing, House Panel Vs. LaHood, Reducing Driving Saves Colleges Money

April 17, 2013
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TRANSPORT Maryland Presses for Federal Support in Building LRT Systems  Baltimore Sun   Backed by an affirming legislative session and soon to be flush with transportation money, state officials went to Washington on Monday to assure the administration that Maryland has both the means and the will to build two light rail systems.
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Urbanism & Design: Vancouver Density Lessons For Seattle, Skateboarding Vs. Architecture, Urban Cores & Socializing

April 16, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Craft Brewer Surly buys Minneapolis site for $20 million Brewery  Minneapolis Star Tribune   The company bought land for a "destination brewery" in Minneapolis' Prospect Park neighborhood that could open by 2014.
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Transport: Healthy Cycling, British Columbia's Transit Dreams, Map21 Helps Rural States, GAO Says HSR Estimates Reasonable

April 1, 2013
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TRANSPORT Biking Shown as Good Way to Stay Healthy  Grist   It's always a pleasure when scientific studies confirm your own long-held opinions, especially when what you think flies in the face of all conventional wisdom.  
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Blogosphere: Sequestration, Washington Transpo Tax, Virginia Transpo Bill, Death Of American Mall, When Cheaper Isn't Better, Rental Housing Shortage

February 26, 2013
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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: What If a City Wants More Transit? Human Transit
Large North American transit agencies generally have some revenue raising authority over an enormous and diverse urban area, and feel obliged to serve the same enormous area with something that can be justified as an "equitable" distribution of service...

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Blogosphere: City's Bike Usage Video, House Conference Work, Voting On Job Access In Atlanta, Bus & Rail Mantras

May 22, 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: What Big City Transportation Officials Want Transportation Issues Daily
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) was founded to help key large cities have a "meaningful political and technical relationship with each other on transportation-related issues, and to develop a stronger critical relationship with USDOT...

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Blogosphere: LA's Green Bike Lane, Plowing Snow In Bike Lanes, New Urbanists In Port Au Prince, HUD Resource Center

February 17, 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: It Ain't Easy Being a Green Bike Lane LA Streetsblog
The Los Angeles Times ran an editorial earlier this week entitled L.A.'s bike lane blooper. While the Times was generally supportive of L.A. City bike plan implementation, it did come out against green bike lanes in downtown Los Angeles stating that "the green lane spoiled the shots that made Spring the perfect stand-in for Anytown, USA."..

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