Blogosphere: Arkansas Parking, Salt Lake Suburbia, California Sustainable Communities, Transpo Bill Critique, Charlotte Financing
December 6, 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: Arkansas Surrounds Capital with Parking Streetsblog.net Another day, another sad tale of government officials trying to cram as many parking spaces downtown as possible. Today's example is especially disappointing because what was standing in the way of 100 additional parking spaces near the state capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas were the sort of things that make cities nice: namely trees and sidewalks... Read On |
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Salt Lake: City's Leap from Suburban Nightmares Bloomberg At the southwestern edge of Salt Lake City, tightly packed new homes run along gentle ridgelines. In the background, the snow-covered Wasatch Mountains catch puffs of cloud on a crisp autumn day... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Report Examines California's SCS Climate Plan On October 28th 2011, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) approved the first sustainable communities strategy (SCS) under Senate Bill 375, California's groundbreaking regional planning law. The plan was the subject of intense scrutiny by stakeholders, state agencies and others... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Conservative Critique of Transpo Bill Transportation Issues Daily A free-market (some would say conservative) public policy group believes the transportation proposal from the House Republicans is "shortsighted.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: What is Cause and What is Effect? Transportationist Reihan Salam at NRO questions the Kotkin hypothesis, asking: "Are people choosing low-density metropolitan areas - or did rising prices in high-density metropolitan areas [like Marin County, in the Bay Area pictured -ed.] drive the population shift?".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Education for Transportation Eno Transportation Blog For the most part, logistics without transportation is the sound of one hand clapping. And yet, academic interest in transportation has greatly declined. In myriad cases it has been replaced by the pursuit of mathematical models of logistics functions which, however, typically give short-shift to the transportation component of supply chain management... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Innovative Financing in Charlotte The Transport Politic In the case of Charlotte, necessity may be the mother of invention. Lacking sufficient revenues to construct the planned Red Line commuter railroad designed to connect Center City Charlotte with its northern suburbs, planners working for local transit agency CATS have developed a unique vision for its financing... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bird's Eye View of Urbanization The Polis Blog China's urbanization is happening at a pace never seen before. In the last two decades, thousands of new developments have sprouted along the fringes of cities across China... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Farming In the Bed of Your Truck The City Fix According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2010, no state in the United States had a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent. In fact, 36 states had a prevalence of 25 percent or more and 12 of these states had a prevalence of 30 percent or more... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Washington Drags Feet on Mileage Fees DC Streetsblog Oregon, true to its history as the first state to implement a gas tax, was also the first state to consider getting rid of it - in exchange for adopting a mileage-based system for highway funding... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Telling Builders to Go Green The Atlantic Cities In Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood, you can use the white brick smokestack of the Supply Laundry Building as a landmark to help find your way among boxy new condominiums and low glass office buildings... Read On |
