Blogosphere: LA Fare Evasion, How NY Rides Bikes, NC Transit Vote, Urban Ag, London's Urban Foxes, Pseudo Suburbanists
May 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: Does Locking Gates Make Fiscal Sense? LA Streetsblog One justification offered for the need to gate Los Angeles' rail system is that the present "Proof-of-Payment" system is evaded by a large number of people and that gates will increase revenue collection. This presumes only gating can reduce the level of fare evasion occurring... Read On |
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Blogosphere: This is How We Ride New York Times THIS summer the city's Department of Transportation inaugurates a new bike-share program. People who live and work in New York will be able to travel quickly and cheaply between many neighborhoods. This is major... Read On |
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Commentary: Clear the Way for a Vote on Transit News and Observer Bold. Effective. User-friendly. Designed for the long term. Job-creating. What I'm describing is a mass transit plan for Wake County and the Triangle, something vital to the smart growth of our region. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Creating Value from Waste Brookings Trash. Just the sound of the word brings to mind rotten food, mountainous landfills, and general noxiousness. But what if a city turned this image on its head? What if trash became a city resource? What if landfills became a relic of the past? .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Reforming City Support for Urban Ag in SF SPUR Seven city agencies spent nearly a million dollars supporting urban agriculture projects in San Francisco in 2010-2011. Yet there is no single staff person responsible for coordinating that funding, nor any overarching goals for how the money is used... Read On |
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Blogosphere: London's Urban Foxes Polis Blog Urban migration isn't just for humans. It turns out that in London, foxes are also drawn to the density of urban life. With access to leftover food from millions of human inhabitants and leafy green spaces, from secluded back gardens to sprawling Royal Parks, foxes have a lot to admire in The Big Smoke... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Please Ignore the Evidence Price Tags Pete McMartin, in a depressing sign of the times, references sprawl apologist Wendell Cox in his column today: ...densification, Cox maintains, rests on a mistaken assumption - that if a city is dense enough, we'll get out of our cars in sufficient numbers to make a difference... Read On |
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Blogosphere: O'Brien Falls into Sustainability Gap Seattle Transit Blog Last week Councilmember Mike O'Brien fell into the Sustainability Gap, that wide chasm between what politicians say and what they actually do. O'Brien voted against a carefully considered and vetted proposal (read more about it here), more than a year in the making, to allow some commercial uses in multifamily zones... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Stunning Geography of Incarceration Atlantic Cities There are 5,393 carceral facilities in the United States, places where people are held in local jails, state prisons, federal corrections facilities, immigration detention centers - "anywhere where an individual can be sort of confined and locked up,".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Pseudo Suburbanist's Dilemma Atlantic Cities There's an old map that I love inside the Library of Congress, upstairs through the Great Hall and a short walk into the marble-tiled gallery where the story of the creation of the United States unfolds... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Race in TV Brooklyn Next American City If you are under 40 and have been on the Internet in the last month, then surely you've heard about Girls, HBO's new sitcom created by and starring Lena Dunham, a 25-year-old Oberlin graduate. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities in the Digital Age The Urban Times Imagine never having to look for a parking space ever again. Imagine that from here on out, this problem is solved. Fast-forward to 2025. You're driving from Brooklyn to Manhattan...because driving in New York City, and everywhere else, has become much simpler a task than it was a decade or so before... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Daylighting Waterways @ The Horizon Several sources cite stream daylighting projects in Berkeley, CA as early progenitors of other creek diversion and restoration projects. In particular, Strawberry Creek is a waterway that runs exposed through the UC Berkeley campus but is piped through most of the city to the San Francisco Bay... Read On |
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Blogosphere: NPR on Leinberger's Walkability Study Smart Growth Around America Chrisopher Leinberger, President of LOCUS and coauthor of the new report "Walk this Way:The Economic Promise of Walkable Places in Metropolitan Washington, D.C." sat down with NPR's Marketplace's David Brancaccio and Stacey Vanek Smith earlier today to talk about the report's findings and the rising popularity of walkable neighborhoods... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Camp Imagery Counts People Not Counted Disruptive Geo We have been busy reviewing the results of the Camp Roberts / Relief 12-3 mapping experiment for the Horn of Africa. In this phase of the project, the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community was provided short-term access to high resolution commercial satellite imagery over two large collections of refugee camps in Ethiopia (Dollo Ado) and Kenya (Dadaab)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Architecture Inspiration from Slums Design Build Source Architecture innovation can come from the strangest of places. There are entire sectors dedicated to innovation points like biomorphic design and form following function. It seems as though there is no end to the list of objects, ideas and styles that can inspire modern architects. Or is there?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Design of Those Yellow Lines Humans In Design A little while back, I blogged my observations on the effectiveness of a yellow "do not cross" line at Helsinki Airport. The line worked for awhile:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Most Beautiful McDonald's in America Scouting NY Last week, I was out in Long Island scouting around Jericho Turnpike, which, if you've never had the pleasure of driving, is one of those hellish, strip mall-lined highways with traffic lights that are perfectly synchronized to make your travel time as long as possible... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Design to Save American Cities Phys . Org "I was really struck by the amount of physical decay I saw there," says Ryan, the Linde Career Development Assistant Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. "It was incredibly troubling to see a huge city laid to waste like that, and we didn't seem as a society to be doing anything about it.".. Read On |
