Blogosphere: $50B Infrastructure Offer, Wisconsin Freeway Farce, Affordable Housing Crisis, Cairo Urbanist Movement
December 5, 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: Obama Takes Swing at $50B Infrastructure DC Streetsblog President Obama is pressing for infrastructure investment again as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations. The president kicked off talks calling for an end to the debt ceiling, the extension of middle-class tax cuts, and $50 billion in infrastructure spending.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: San Diego Plan Violates SB375 LA Streetsblog When it was passed last March, the long-term transportation plan was hailed as "visionary" for its investment in transit, bicycling and pedestrian projects. The plan was the first regional plan passed under S.B. 375, a landmark piece of legislation that mandated that transportation plans be tied to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Walker's Freeway Farce Urban Milwaukee Two years ago, conservatives had a field day going after Democrat Tom Barrett for allegedly delaying the reconstruction of the Zoo Interchange. The issue arose during the 2010 gubernatorial race... Read On |
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Commentary: Streetcar Project Would Boost Vitality Kansas City Star It doesn't look at all like Christmas in Kansas City. December seems like a stranger in its new summer clothes. But on Saturday night, a friend and I enjoyed the balmy temperatures... Read On |
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Blogosphere: 4 Republicans Could Work Across Aisle DC Streetsblog First Rep. Tim Johnson of Illinois announced his retirement. Then Ohio's Rep. Steve LaTourette said he couldn't take the petty gridlock anymore and followed suit... Read On |
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Commentary: The Affordable Housing Crisis New York Times The precious few federal programs that provide rental assistance to the nation's poorest and most vulnerable families are already underfinanced. These programs provide decent housing for about only a quarter of the low-income families who qualify for them... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How I Learned to Love the Luxury Condo Bloomberg With nine subway lines, downtown Brooklyn, New York, has more rapid transit than Chicago. You wouldn't know that looking at its parking requirements for new development: four spots for every 10 units in buildings of any significant size... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Park Where There Was a Canal ASLA Dirt Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard has undergone an unbelievable transformation in the past few years. What was once an isolated naval base and seedy area made up of industrial buildings and strip clubs has become home to a real neighborhood .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urbanist Movement Grows in Cairo Next American City Jamel Mubarak leans over the side of his balcony overlooking Tahrir Square and makes a simple observation: Cairo, the city of his birth, is not as pretty as it used to be... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities Densify or Disperse When Growing? Old Urbanist In a recent post, Chris Bradford has built on some of the findings I made on weighted density last month to show how housing affordability has relatively little relation to density... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities Densify or Disperse When Growing? Old Urbanist In a recent post, Chris Bradford has built on some of the findings I made on weighted density last month to show how housing affordability has relatively little relation to density... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Our Tax System is Failing Cities The Atlantic Cities In a nation with more than 19,492 incorporated municipalities, all with varying degrees of autonomy and authority when it comes to designing their fiscal systems, policymakers have fabricated a crazy quilt of local revenue... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Redeveloping the Depot District Utah Policy For about one third of future households - families, baby boomers and the "millennials" -- quality of life implies the ability to live, work and play in convenient, walkable urban centers close to jobs, transportation, shopping, restaurants, arts and entertainment... Read On |
