Blogoshere: Cars Aren't Cool, Counting Middle Class Cars, Elevated Bike Interchange, Entrepreneurial Mobility
August 24, 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. |
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Blogosphere: Car's Aren't Cool Anymore Ottawa Citizen When I pocketed my first driver's licence, in Vancouver in the '80s, Bruce Springsteen's paeans to the highways ruled the airwaves (all those "Broken heroes on a last-chance power drive!")... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Carmaggedon is Coming! Salon Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car! No, really - everyone, God help us, is about to get a car. Last month, the Carnegie Endowment published a report arguing that you can estimate the size of developing countries' middle classes by counting their cars.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Hovenring, Elevated Bike Interchange Pricetags This elevated bike roundabout, the Hovenring, is 72 metres in diameter, with a 70-metre tall pylon. It opened on June 29, and this is how it was being used on Aug 12:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Entrepreneurial Mobility The City Fix Imagine spending two years of your life stuck in your car, with no one but the radio for company. That is the reality for everyone who spends two hours commuting to and from work, five days a week, for 35 years. And that is reality for millions of inhabitants of Mexico City... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Park Systems Reduce Stress City Parks Blog As beautiful, peaceful islands of greenery, parks can help reduce stress and promote mental health. But this is the case only if parks provide a safe and welcoming environment... Read On |
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Blogosphere: New Zoning Code for a Different Philly Next American City In a ceremony yesterday, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and other civic leaders unveiled the first major overhaul of the city's zoning code in half a century... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Parks Weren't Always for Everyone The Atlantic Cities In the early 1940s, in the name of the war effort, the British government ordered citizens to tear down the tall, black railings that surrounded London's many private gardens... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why I Moved Back to the Burbs The Atlantic Cities Two years ago, sick of paying high rent for a poky little dump of an apartment, I moved out of inner London to a quiet, nondescript South Eastern suburb. Instead of the low rumble of traffic, a tiny, ugly kitchen and a teenage neighbor forever honking through the Black Eyed Peas' greatest hits on her clarinet.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Your Skyline Says About City The Atlantic Cities Have you ever thought about what a skyline says about a city? They come in all different shapes and sizes, and reveal more than you might think about a city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: La Brea as LA's Linear Density Lab The Faster Times A vision of the dense future of Los Angeles appears to be underway on a long stretch of La Brea Ave. from Wilshire Blvd to Fountain Ave. The typically low-rise commercial strip is quickly being transformed by a number of projects that are rising simultaneously, like formerly sleeping Goliaths, from their recessionary slumbers... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Birthplace of English Per Square Mile I speak English (no surprise). I can also speak German, though more poorly than when I was in college. And I can understand a handful of Spanish, Italian, and Chinese words... Read On |
