Blogosphere: Autos Vs. Bikes & Peds, Chinese Urban Rail Investments, Affordable Housing Map, Defining A Global City
August 20, 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: Safety in Walking, Biking, Transit Metropolis Magazine In June, 24-year-old Emma Blumstein was bicycling along Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, in the bike lane, when a flatbed truck turned in front of her. She went under the wheels, and was killed... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Civil Rights Suit Over Zoo Interchange DC Streetsblog In the politically polarized Milwaukee region, there are two widely divergent visions of what transportation should do... Read On |
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Blogosphere: You Can't Get Here from There Bostonography There's an excellent Far Side cartoon of which I'm often reminded around here: a man in a car has asked a farmer for directions from Point B to Point A, as indicated by the map in the man's hand... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Boston "Travel Time" Map Shows T Greater Greater Washington Designer Peter Dunn created another fascinating transit map, which shows the Boston T based on the time it takes from downtown to other points:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Rail Investment Lessons from China Spatial Economics Research Center While British politicians argue about infrastructure, Chinese policymakers have been laying it out. Decades of heavy investment in urban transport systems have reshaped the face of most Chinese cities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Kiwi Urbanism Stephen Rees Gavin Lister and David Irwin spoke at SFU on August 16, describing two projects their design company Isthmus is currently working on. The first is Hobsonville Point a former NZ Defence Force airbase which is now being redeveloped as a mainly residential suburban area... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tampa - America's Hot Mess Salon Poke around the White House website and you can still find the hopeful "fact sheet" for a 324-mile high-speed rail line linking Miami, Orlando and Tampa... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Barricading a Downtown...Forever American Dirt About two years ago on this blog, I glossed over the unusual skyline of Frankfort, Kentucky's pretty, parochial capital city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Affordable Housing Gone Viral Rooflines For those of us in the affordable housing field, the map from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition's annual Out of Reach report showing the "housing wage" in each state of the union is familiar, nearly iconic... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Burn the Burbs? Not True Minnesota Post President Obama's detractors have made a lot of charges: He isn't a U.S. citizen; he got lousy grades at Harvard; he's ruined the economy; he socialized health care; he leaked secrets; he wants to impose Shariah law; and he's planning to raise everybody's taxes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Olympics Over, Now What? Metropolis Magazine Just as Danny Boyle's cinematic representation of England's transition from a pastoral, farming nation to the leaders of the industrial revolution, London's East End has been going through a transition of its own in preparation for the Olympic Games... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What is a Global City? The Urbanophile This is both a standalone general article and part of my "State of Chicago" series. We hear a lot of talk these days about so-called "global cities." But what is a global city?.. Read On |
