Blogosphere: Map 21 Misplaced Funds, Unneeded Highways, Cinci River Transformation, Affordable Housing Funding
October 4, 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: How Map 21 Allocates Funds Least Needed DC Streetsblog Transportation reauthorizations have typically not been a time for major discussions about national policy goals. They've been a time for getting while the getting's good, a time for deal-making and pork and a lot of back-room transactions to make sure every member of Congress could go home and talk about how much federal money they were bringing home... Read On |
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Blogosphere: We Really Don't Need Highways to Suburbs Slate The shred of policy substance in last night's conservative "discovery" of a 2007 public speech that Barack Obama delivered in New Hampshire and was covered at the time (see Dave Weigel for a full account of the conservative race-baiting on this)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cinci Looking for Capping Design Ideas Urban Cincy Billions of dollars of public and private investment has transformed Cincinnati's central riverfront over the past decade. What was once a flood-prone industrial center turned unusable waterfront property, is now home to a new park, neighborhood, museums, and professional sports venues... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Great Years of Chicago Streetcars WBEZ Chicago First let's get the terminology straight. We're talking here about a local street railway, drawing power from overhead electric wires, by means of a trolley pole. Other cities called these vehicles "trolley cars." In Chicago they were always known as "streetcars.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Smog Was Real Victim of Carmageddon CAHSR Blog There are few sights more amazing than Southern California on a clear day. It usually happens a few times a year, just after a winter storm has blown through, or during the Santa Ana winds in the fall... Read On |
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Blogosphere: TIFIA Changing Loan Game for Transport Next American City Transit advocates took note when the population of car-choked Los Angeles voted, by a 68 percent majority, to raise taxes on themselves to fund a dedicated transit expansion. Remember, the revenue was earmarked for specific projects before the tax was approved, so voters knew exactly what their money would be spent on... Read On |
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Commentary: Why Don't We Spend Road $$ on Repair? Houston Chronicle The local media are all gaga over yet another "study" that shows how much time and money we all lose because the roads are insufficient for our needs or in poor shape, with numerous potholes ruining our cars... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Planet of the Cities Per Square Mile Science fiction is littered with planet-wide cities. Star Wars had Coruscant, Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series had Trantor, and even Star Trek, in an alternate timeline in First Contact, saw Earth paved over by the cybernetic Borg... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Opportunities in Green Urban Expansion The Nature of Cities The world is increasingly urban, interconnected, and changing. If current trends continue, by 2050 the global urban population is estimated to double and be around 6.5 billion... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A 50K Person March for Land Reform The Atlantic Cities Just one day after thousands of cute little kids flooded into streets all over India dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi to celebrate the national hero's birthday, tens of thousands of Indians have gathered together for another march - one just as much inspired by the vaunted civil rights leader... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Landscape Archs Can Take Lead on Cities ASLA Dirt For the Sunday morning general session at the ASLA 2012 Annual Meeting, Bradford McKee, editor of Landscape Architecture Magazine, organized a panel of some of the most prominent architecture and urban design critics from around the U.S. and Canada... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Novel Idea Funding Affordable Housing The Atlantic Cities It's not exactly the kind of real estate most people are used to squabbling over, but the invisible bands of radio frequencies that carry all sorts of communication and broadcast information around the planet are hot commodities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Temp Playground Turns Kids Into Planners Next American City In a gentrified borough of Berlin, there is a micro-city of wooden ramshackle huts, bridges made of planks and a stone kiln. Children, ages six to 16, labor atop makeshift scaffolding with their own hammers and saws... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Nokia, The Forgotten Mapmaker The Atlantic Cities Apple's maps are bad. Even Tim Cook knows this and apologized for them. Google's maps are good, thanks to years of work, massive computing resources, and thousands of people handcorrecting map data... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Let's Not Move to Extremes on Ownership National Housing Conference Recently, the Economist hosted an online debate on the question "Should home-ownership be discouraged?" If the framing of the question seems convoluted to you, you are not alone... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The City and Its Citadels Bldg Blog While writing the previous post and looking for a link to FSG, Robin Sloan's publisher, a fortuitous auto-fill in my browser bar led me to the Fortress Study Group, the "international society of artillery fortification and military architecture.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Could Less Review Bring Walkable TOD Greater Greater Washington Some Prince George's County Council members want to make it easier to develop around the county's transit stations with a pair of bills that would streamline approvals... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cell Phones to Blame for Boring Spaces The Atlantic Cities At The Aporetic, a provocative post raises a vital question: Are our undifferentiated and anonymous public spaces a response to the ubiquity of cell phones -- or is it the other way around?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Where Do You Live? What Does it Mean? New Geography I recently moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where I live in the town of West Warwick. I've been learning the place more and soaking in New England culture (and seafood). This area has a Rust Belt type profile: declining population, post-industrial economic landscape, high unemployment, etc... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Minecraft as Urban Development Tool Electronic Theater UN Habitat recently announced plans to engage populations in developing nations around the process of planning and designing their own communities using the hugely popular Minecraft videogame... Read On |
