Blogosphere: Amsterdam Bike History, Transit Rider Unions, Transpo & Health Connection, Economic Inequality In Cities
October 30, 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: Why You Should Vote Yes on Measure J LA Streetsblog Los Angeles County is darn big and densely populated, a complex conglomeration of neighborhoods, multi-centered, and with complicated commute patterns. It's hard to believe policy and funding still prioritizes cars when it seems so obvious we need to make every other kind of transport easy and safe... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why the Dutch Went Bicycle Greater Greater Washington Speaking of another part of the world even more prone to coastal flooding, someone recently shared a link to this video about why a top-notch network of bike paths came to the Netherlands... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Does Your City Need Transit Riders Union? The Atlantic Cities They tell a favorite story within the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union about the moment when the barely two-year-old organization first began to wield real power in the city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Driverless Tube Scam and James Bond Guardian UK After 007 boards a train by leaping onto the back of it as it speeds away from a platform and disappears into a tunnel, his pursuit of the bad guy in a carriage up ahead only continues because a surprised but obliging London Underground employee sitting in the driver's cab lets him in.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Connections Between Tranpo and Health DC Streetsblog The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched their "New Public Health" website last year with the goal of meeting community members where they are to talk about public health... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Short Streets Too Wide Auckland Transport Blog This is something that has always bugged me as I walk up and down Queen St. Take a look at the intersection of Airdale St. Airdale is a little left over remnant of a road that got sliced off by Mayoral Drive. It wasn't much of a street to begin with, but now it almost doesn't exist... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
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Blogosphere: 66% - America's Growing Underclass Atlantic Cities Income and wealth inequality have risen to record levels in the United States. Even as cities have become the new social and economic organizing units of our increasingly spiky world, their inequalities are approaching levels found in Third World nations... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Two Visions for Urban Development Next American City When the Barclays Center opened in Brooklyn earlier this month, its developer, Bruce C. Ratner, was the subject of enough hagiography that you would think he were an urban visionary on par with Frederick Law Olmstead or Daniel Burnham... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Density Makes Cities More Affordable City Tank In the middle of this piece on the transfer of development rights (a useful approach, in which a developer pays farmers not to develop their farms into subdivisions, and is given a height bonus in return by local government, allowing him or her to build a taller building), there sits this strange quote:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Plans for Hollywood and Vine Towers Curbed LA Woo-ee, here we go: Millennium Partners and Argent Ventures have released a website and the first big report (the draft environmental impact report) on Millennium Hollywood, their plan to put two big towers on either side of Vine Street by the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Challenges and Problems in Brazil Marcopolis If you stand in the shadow of Rio de Janeiro´s iconic Christ statue you´ll be amazed by the beauty of the lush green jungle that extends down to the deep blue sea but also stunned by the millions of precarious shacks literally hanging off the hillsides above sprawling mansions sporting swimming pools and tennis courts... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Uses for Wasted Health Care Money UCLA Newsroom The respected national Institute of Medicine estimates that $750 billion is lost each year to wasteful or excessive health care spending. This sum includes excess administrative costs, inflated prices, unnecessary services and fraud - dollars that add no value to health and well-being... Read On |
