Blogosphere: New Urbanism & Transit, Transit & Sexual Harassment, Tampa Corridors, LA Transit Revolution
September 18, 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: New Urbanism and Transit Part II Human Transit An excellent comment debate has arisen on my recent post "New Urbanists are from Mars, Transit Planners are from Venus," which addresses the mutual incomprehension between many transit agencies and many urban designers who think they're building transit friendly communities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Stories of Transit & Sexual Harassment LAist Last week we wrote about one woman's horrifying story of sexual harassment on the Metro. We were so blown away by the stories that our readers shared in response that we decided to do a follow-up post... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Creating the 2nd Crookedest Street Curbed SF Welcome to Curbed's ongoing series titled Hidden History, where Curbed Contributor Alex Bevk highlights a Bay Area location with a secret past. Maybe it's no longer there, maybe it's been converted into something else, but each spot holds a place in Bay Area history.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Tampa, a City of Corridors Helm of the Public Realm In a series of posts part of the Congress for the New Urbanism's City Spotlight Series, members of CNU Tampa Bay will examine the current conditions of Tampa, urban trends and the initiatives (or lack thereof) put in place by the city, and how CNU can meet these needs... Read On |
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Blogosphere: LA's Transit Revolution Slate On a recent visit to Southern California, I began my day in Claremont, where I'd spoken the previous evening at a Pomona College event. I walked from a hotel near campus to the Claremont Metrolink station, where I grabbed a commuter rail train to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Fake Populism and 1940's Street Land Grab Cap'N Transit You may not have heard this particular story before, but it'll sound awfully familiar. That's because the story of the Great Curbside Land Grab of 1952 is just another instance of the Fake Populist Resource Grab... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Lifecycle of a 'Cool' Neighborhood The Atlantic Cities Like the old New Yorker cartoon, New Yorkers think we define American culture. So all this talk about Brooklyn dying as the epicenter of hipsterdom worries us. Many who once celebrated the borough are now questioning its status, such as artist James Kalm and the author Robert Anasi... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Rise of Teleworking New Geography Teleworking (also known as telecommuting) has taken flight as a global trend. During July of 2002, European Union collectively decided on a shared framework agreement on telework, which regulates issues such as employment and working conditions, health and safety, training, and the collective rights of teleworkers... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Surprising Economics of Male/Fem Ratios The Atlantic Cities The cities of Macon and Columbus, in Georgia, have a lot in common. They're located within a hundred miles of one another and have similar histories and economies... Read On |
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Blogosphere: When We're All Urban Planners Next American Cities We know a community is capable of funding a new bakery or a chicken coop, but can the crowd fund the crowd-funding site? To do so it will most likely need serial project leaders who build strong local networks.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: How US Designs Its Embassies Atlantic Cities The U.S. Embassy in Cairo is an unusual building. For one thing, as you can see in the center photo above, it's over 10 stories high -- most embassies are much shorter... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mythical and Real Urban Animals This Big City Investigating urban animals offers unexpected insights for remaking city life so that it is more adaptable and responsive to interaction and sharing. Like buildings and people, animals also have a history in the city.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Connecting Used Car Lots with Infill Urban Indy A few years ago I was touring a down-and-out portion of City X (it doesn't really matter-could be any city) for the first time, when a colleague of mine made the observation: "You can immediately tell that land values are low here; just look at all these used car dealerships!".. Read On |
