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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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Urbanism & Design: Threat To Wealthy Ohio Counties, Disappearing DC Gas Stations, Mayo Clinic's Destination Medical Center, Vertical Cities

April 29, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Wealthiest Counties in NE Ohio Could End Up Losers  Cleveland Plain Dealer   Northeast Ohio will see 18 houses a day abandoned in urban areas while suburban communities add tens of thousands of new, single-family houses and build enough new miles of highway to reach from Cleveland to Panama.
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Urban Issues: FBI Building Competition, New German Rental Regulations, Cleveland Cycle Of Abandonment, Selling Fed Property

April 22, 2013
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Affordability, California, Cleveland, Commuter Rail, DC, Development & Redevelopment, Employment & Transit, Federal Policy, Fresno, health, Health & Environment, High-Speed & Intercity Rail, housing, HUD, Maryland, Ohio, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, Transit, urban, Urban Form, Virginia, Washington DC
URBAN ISSUES Bid for FBI Building Sets off Healthy Competition  San Jose Mercury News   The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency-and attendant economic benefits-to their neighborhoods.
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Urban Issues: Job Sprawl Stall, Rental Preservation, HUD App Helps Homeless, Cupcake Craziness, Upgrading SF Water System

April 18, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Recession Causes Job Sprawl to Stall  Brookings   As policymakers and regional leaders work to grow jobs and connect residents to economic opportunity following the Great Recession, where jobs locate matters.
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Urbanism & Design: Planning With Non-Architects, Death By Skywalk, Accessory Dwelling Units, The Myth Of Vertical Sprawl, SF Development Battles

April 9, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Non-Architects Need to Get Involved in Planning  Sustainable Cities Collective, via: @urbandata   In this beautiful TEDx talk Michiel van Iersel, founder of the Amsterdam based collective 'Failed Architecture' explains how…
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Urbanism & Design: Missing Katrina HUD Money, Dallas' New Urban Center, India HUD To Plan Transit, Anchoring Transit Line Ends

April 5, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN $700M to Help Elevate New Orleans Homes Lost  RT   A new report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development paints a grim picture of a program that was supposed to help Louisiana's Katrina victims protect their homes from future storms - to the tune of $700 million in misplaced taxpayer money.
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Urban Issues: HUD's Sequestration Cuts, Transformational Data, Investing Pensions Locally, Smarter Cities, Big Data In NYC, Technology As City Equalizer

April 3, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Housing Hardest Cut of Sequestration  Slate Moneybox   Sequestration is largely designed to prevent cuts in targeted anti-poverty programs, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development's various housing assistant programs are an exception.
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Urbanism & Design: Missouri Land Assembly Tax Credit, Detroit Development Plans, San Diego Mixed Use Project, Visualizing Four Square Check-Ins, Cleveland Vs. Spokane Parking

March 28, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Controversial Land Assembly Tax Credit Hearing in Missouri  St. Louis Post Dispatch   St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay was among several people to testify in favor of extending the controversial Distressed Areas Land Assemblage tax credit before a Missouri Senate committee hearing Wednesday.
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Urbanism & Design: Impact Of Toronto Condo Boom, LA's Wilshire Blvd., Luring Rich Back To Cleveland, St. Paul's Next Hot Neighborhood

March 25, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Is Toronto's Condo Boom Causing Too Much Density?  Toronto Star   Urban density is recognized by planners as the best way to combat sprawl. But is Toronto's downtown condo boom too much density?   Read On  
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Blogosphere: Doing Chicago BRT Right, Lego Subway Train, Light Rail & Traffic, Bus-Rail Economics, Transportation Spending

March 5, 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: It's Up to Chicago to Do BRT Right Chicago Streetsblog
"We knew how important it was for federal policy makers to see innovation and new ideas bubbling up from important cities around the country," said Nick Turner, managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation at a bus rapid transit roundtable last Friday...

Read On Commentary: Ross Valley Trolley Deserves a Close Look Marin Independent Journal
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