Blogosphere: Portland Tri-Met Budget Woes, Cincinnati Subway History, Home Ownership Dreams, Gayest Neighborhoods
June 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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Commentary: Better If Tri-Met Employees Strike Oregonian The downtown Free Rail Zone will soon be dead, bus service reduced and fares enhanced: How do you solve a problem like TriMet, which must fill a multimillion-dollar budget hole while fighting to rein in what could soon be known as the Benefits Package That Ate Portland?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway Urban Cincy On the fourth episode of The UrbanCincy Podcast, we listen to a talk given by Jake Mecklenborg at the Society for Industrial Archeology 2012 annual conference, which was held this year in Cincinnati... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Millenials Home Ownership Dreams New Geography Eighty percent of Americans buy their first house between the ages of 18-34. While the Millennial Generation's (born 1982-2003) delayed entry into all aspects of young adulthood has sometimes been characterized as a "failure to launch," the generation's preference for single tract, suburban housing.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Washingtonianism City Journal For we who believe that great men, not impersonal forces, make history, George Washington is Exhibit A. As the Revolution's commander in chief, president of the Constitutional Convention, and first president of the United States, he was luminously the Founding's indispensable man, in biographer James Flexner's pitch-perfect phrase... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Data-Driven Urban Citizenship Pop Up City With networked infrastructures mixing with physical fabric of the cities (check out iPavement, paving tiles with embedded microcomputer), there is a gradually growing body of urban data. Often this data is not collected or not stored... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Apple Dropping Google Transit Good Greater Greater Washington To the disappointment of many, Apple's new iOS 6 won't include the Google Maps app, which means iPhone and iPad users won't have access to Google's transit directions. Future iOS users will need to install third-party apps for transit information... Read On |
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Blogosphere: America's Gayest Neighborhoods Atlantic Cities This month cities all across the world are partaking in Gay Pride celebrations. Jed Kolko, the chief economist at Trulia, takes a look at the neighborhoods in the U.S. with the largest gay communities ("gayborhoods")... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Stop Thinking Big Salon Last week, a press release from Chicago's Office of the Mayor proclaimed something that would have sounded like a Yes Men prank just a few years ago: Rahm Emanuel, it said, has a plan to get rid of the city's "excess asphalt.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Africa's High Fashion City The Atlantic Cities Dakar Fashion Week was started by Senegalese designer Adama Ndiaya as a way to showcase local talent. Ten years on, it's become a major fashion event. According to Voice of America, organizers aim to "reach the heights of fashion weeks in Paris and New York, while remaining distinctly African.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Making Real What Happens on the Internet Next American City Candy Chang moved to New Orleans in 2010. A small, intense woman, her background was in architecture and design. She had been living in Finland, but like scores of idealistic twentysomethings, she found herself drawn to the Crescent City... Read On |
