Blogosphere: Dying Freeways, Beyond Road Widening, Rebranding Amsterdam, Responsive Urban Design, Painting Pigeons
August 31, 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: Which Urban Freeways Are Ready to Go? Next American City To many city-dwellers, the obsolescence of aging urban highways is obvious. Here in Philadelphia, for instance, I-95 is fast-approaching the end of its design life. What will become of it - particularly a three-mile stretch along the Delaware River that divides the city from its waterfront... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tenn DOT Moves Past Road Widening DC Streetsblog In the late eighties and nineties, every traffic issue the Tennessee Department of Transportation faced was assigned the same solution: a bypass. But over the years, the department has come around to a new way of doing things, according to 40-year TDOT veteran Ralph Comer... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rebranding Amsterdam Smithsonian Amsterdam has long been a required stop on any European Grand Tour. But in the early 21st century, the city of Amsterdam noticed its position on various international rankings-top tourist destinations, top convention cities, etc... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Responsive Urban Design Per Square Mile We've been planning cities for almost as long as they have existed. Archaeological evidence suggests the ancient Egyptians did so 5,000 years ago. Hippodamos, considered by many to be the father of urban planning.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Hardt and Negri on Sharing The Polis Blog "A democracy of the multitude is imaginable and possible only because we all share and participate in the common. By "the common" we mean, first of all, the common wealth of the material world - the air, the water, the fruits of the soil, and all nature's bounty... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Gaps in Chicago's Global City Fabric Urbanophile The is the last of three installments on Chicago as a global city, and is also part of my "State of Chicago" series. Chicago is definitely in a global city in any definition, but if you parse apart its economy, the global city part is smaller than is generally believed.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why Dogs Shouldn't Pee on Trees The Atlantic Cities Anyone who's ever owned dogs knows that the lovable creatures are potent forces of destruction. From vomiting squirrel parts on the sofa, to inhaling the girlfriend's laundry-basket panties, to arranging a trashcan's contents over the floor with the gusto of an FBI forensics team, some days it seems as if canines were bred solely to generate hilarious barroom anecdotes... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Painting Pigeons The Atlantic Cities The pigeon hordes of Venice might be a delight to world travelers, who allow the vacuous-faced birds to perch on their arms and shoulders as if they were living roost trees... Read On |
