Blogosphere: Getting CAHSR On Track, LA Freeway History, Green Streets Benefits, World's Worst Parkers, Equitable Public Spaces
August 16, 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: Getting HSR on Track in California SPUR As California prepares to build North America's first 200-plus-miles-per-hour high-speed rail track, the voices of doubt and hesitation become louder and more strident. Skeptics attempt to drown out confidence in the project... Read On |
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Blogosphere: LA's First Freeways KCET Perceptions may be changing with the gradual return to Los Angeles of fixed rail transit, but from today's vantage point, the city's freeways almost seem like an inevitable feature of the landscape... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Green Streets Cut Pollution More ASLA Dirt A new research study by Professor Thomas Pugh at Lancaster University and other scientists in the UK has found that adding trees, bushes, innovative systems like green walls, or even ivy or other creeping vines, can cut street-level nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and microscopic particulate matter (PM).. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Schedules Now for Over 1M Transit Stops Google Lat Long Since 2005, we've collaborated with hundreds of transit authorities around the world to make a comprehensive resource for millions of riders to find out which bus, train, subway or tram can take them to their next destination... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The World's Worst Parkers The Atlantic Cities Unfortunately, there is no World Bank or International Monetary Fund study on comparative parking practices across nations, no ranking of the world's countries by the politeness and orderliness of their drivers' habits... Read On |
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Blogosphere: US DOTs Congestion Definition DC Streetsblog Congress has done its job, such as it is, and passed a transportation bill. Now it's handed off the policymaking to U.S. DOT, which must issue a raft of rules, definitions, and guidance to accompany the new law, known as MAP-21... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Visual Guide to Bad Community Meetings The Atlantic Cities The community meeting is one of those first-level-in-the-pyramid, foundational elements of a democratic society. The people come together to hear from and talk to their elected officials and bureaucrats, and to play a part in collectively deciding what should and should not happen in a community. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: National Academy for Enviro Design Architect Magazine Frederick Steiner isn't shy about his ambitions for the National Academy of Environmental Design. The dean of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture and president of the forthcoming design academy compares it to the National Academy of Sciences or the National Institutes of Health.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: LRT Attracting More Student Housing Minneapolis Star Tribune More new student housing is headed to the University of Minnesota's East Bank campus. OpusDevelopment Corporatio said this morning that The Station on Washington will be a six-story building with 11,200 square feet of retail space on the ground-level and five floors of apartments with 97 units and a total of 156 bedrooms... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Jerusalem Bets on Skyscraper Forest The Atlantic Cities If a city wants job growth, it also needs job space growth -- office towers and business areas have to be built to accommodate the new jobs a city wants... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Discovering Urban Biodiversity The Nature of Cities The world is losing its biological diversity - or biodiversity - at an alarming rate. The primary force driving this is habitat degradation. When the places where animals, plants, fungi, and the myriad other organisms live are converted to other uses, conditions change and the prior residents often move on or die... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Selling the Rights to Greater Density Market Urbanism At Next American City, Mark Berghen has an interesting long-form piece on municipal infrastructure financing. He argues that the property owners who benefit from public policies, such as infrastructure investment, should be required to fund these policies... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Creating Equitable Public Spaces GMF Urban Current From solemn historical pageant, to snarky pop cultural in-jokes, to outlandish liberties taken with icons including the National Health Service, James Bond, and the Queen herself, watching Danny Boyle's Olympic opening extravaganza swept me back emotionally to the week I spent visiting London's public spaces.. Read On |
