Blogosphere: Portland Public Engagement, Japan's Maglev Train, Transit Impact Fees, Obama Infrastructure Proposal, Deadly Roads
December 3, 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: In Portland, A Lesson in Involvement German Marshall Fund Urban Current Despite Copenhagen's preeminent position as the world's "bicycling capital," Andreas believes that the city still has much to learn from the U.S. on public engagement around bike sharing and bike infrastructure systems and alternative financing methods for such programs through private partners... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why Does ITE Even Exist? Transportationist Mike Spack vs. ITE: Why does the Institute of Transportation Engineers exist? 10 Ideas for Big Changes. See his post for the list... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Japan's 300 MPH Maglev Train Slate A Japanese railway company this month unveiled a prototype for a commercial passenger train that it says can reach speeds of 310 miles per hour via magnetic levitation... Read On |
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Commentary: Transit Impact Fee Worries Some SF Examiner San Francisco's nonprofit health care, education, museum and housing providers may soon be hit with thousands of dollars in unexpected fees if harmful language is not omitted from pending legislation coming before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday... Read On |
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Blogosphere: State Preference Survey Design in TOD TRB TRID This paper illustrates techniques for stated preference experiment design and data application in discrete choice modelling for transit-oriented development (TOD) study in a rail corridor... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Patty Murray as Senate Budget Chief DC Streetsblog In transportation circles, all eyes are on Rep. Bill Shuster, who was just tapped to head the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the House... Read On |
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Blogosphere: President Proposes $50B for Infrastructure Transportation Issues Daily President Obama has resurrected his proposal to invest $50 billion in infrastructure and wants it included in the fiscal cliff deal. Republicans were immediately critical of the proposal... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Changing the Roads that Are Killing Us Greater Greater Washington The day before Thanksgiving, Loudoun County elementary school principal Kathleen Hwang died. She was trying to cross a road in her Sterling neighborhood... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
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Blogosphere: 6 Ideas to Steal from Barcelona Atlantic Cities Spain may be facing significant economic and political challenges these days, but Barcelona's city-building remains one of the best models in the world. Few cities inspire my thinking more... Read On |
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Blogosphere: TOD Newsletter from Pace Law Better Cities and Towns A quarterly newsletter on transit-oriented development (TOD) in the New York City region - which boasts the nation's biggest transit system - has been launched by the Pace Law Center with support from the One Region Fund in the New York Community Trust.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: 'Middle Rung' Suburbs a Great Opportunity Auckland Transport Blog Housing affordability is most definitely a 'hot topic issue' at the moment, with today's NZ Herald running a fairly extensive article and opinion piece looking at the issue and its political implications... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Rise of Urban Ecology Atlantic Cities Urbanization brings with it all sorts of effects on human behavior, but sometimes lost in the mix are the corresponding effects on plant and animal life. Understanding this ecological impact will become increasingly important as cities expand their environmental footprint and implement policies to address climate change... Read On |
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Blogosphere: An Electromagnetic Test Town BLDG BlOG I was fascinated to read yesterday that a cyberwarfare training city is under construction, to be opened by March 2013, "a small-scale city located close by the New Jersey Turnpike complete with a bank, hospital, water tower, train system, electric power grid, and a coffee shop.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Lost in Cary, American Suburb Naked City Blog I was amused recently by an article about the state's über-suburb, Cary - "Lost in Cary? Officials hope to show the way." It seems people get lost there - a lot... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Starchitects Don't Know Best reCities It isn't uncommon among the architectural and general media to solicit opinions from starchitects regarding their opinions about the globalization of architecture, the homogenization of design across borders, or what they have to say to critics of these practices... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Listening Skeptically to NIMBYs Cap'n Transit So Kaid Benfield's post "Mitigating the environmental paradox of smart growth: softening urban density" got the snazzier title "The Case for Listening to NIMBYs" when it was reposted on the Atlantic Cities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cartography and Conflict NPR Alexander Murphy recalls visiting a Guatemala museum some years ago and gazing up at a huge relief map of the country. Something about the borders struck the University of Oregon geography professor as out of place... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Designing Zero Waste Cities The Conversation The current state of worldwide urban development is depressing. We are not moving towards environmentally sustainable design and reduced consumption quickly enough... Read On |
