Blogosphere: Colorado HSR, Zoning & Transit, Texas Infrastructure Crisis, TOD & Workforce Housing, Consequences Of White Roofs
| 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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Commentary: Colorado HSR Closer to Reality Denver Post Somebody has to go first. For the low-stakes gamble of traffic roundabouts, it was Vail. When town officials pulled the trigger, skeptics predicted mayhem... Read On |
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Commentary: Zoning Crippling Silicon Valley Transit Forbes People like me who would like there to be more dense, walkable neighborhoods in America face a kind of chicken-and-egg problem. Achieving the necessary density requires a significant fraction of people to give up their cars... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Texas' Coming Infrastructure Crisis Planetizen A new report by the transportation research group TRIP documents the status, safety impacts, and costs of Texas' growing infrastructure crisis. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Per Capita Gas Consumption Per County DC Streetsblog The overwhelming sentiment that greeted our story on the gas consumption maps the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club put out last week went something like this: These are almost useful... Read On |
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Blogosphere: 5 Reasons Germans Take More Transit Atlantic Cities When it comes to car use, there are a number of similarities between Germany and the United States. Both have high levels of vehicle ownership and saw motorization increase during postwar suburbanization... Read On |
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Blogosphere: S Lake Union Investment Pays Dividends Seattle Transit Blog Friday's news that Amazon is purchasing its main campus from Vulcan is one of many recent harbingers of fortune for South Lake Union and plenty proof that early investment in the neighborhood is now paying dividends... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Can We Learn from Bhutan? Urban Times The small Himalayan country of Bhutan, whose policy of measuring happiness has inspired the UN and other countries to include well-being as a development goal, is making quite a stir on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Power of the Moveable Chair The Atlantic Cities In his classic 1980 study of the use of public spaces in New York City, William H. Whyte and his team of researchers used cameras to watch people and understand how they used the public places in the city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: TOD Could Help Workforce Housing Planetizen UCLA's Paul Habibi believes that L.A.'s lack of affordable workforce housing, the "donut hole" between subsidized housing and high-end housing preferred by developers, is harming the city's competitiveness... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Unintended Consequences of White Roofs Per Square Mile Cool roofs - created when developers use reflective paint on rooftops - do perform their intended task of reducing temperatures in urban areas while cutting building energy costs... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Battle Lines Drawn Over Zoning Update Washington City Paper It's not really news that lots of people are vocally unhappy about the update to the city's zoning code drafted by the Office of Planning. But it sure makes for good entertainment... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Unemployment Down in Most Metro Areas Next American City Mirroring the country as a whole, most U.S. metropolitan areas have seen unemployment rates drop since last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why the Office Won't Go Out of Style Big Think Well so, the "everybody can work from wherever they are" logic has been around for a long time. And in fact, well again, well predates the Internet. .. Read On |
