Blogosphere: San Antonio Streetcar Support, Federal Transit Commute Benefits, Transit Station Naming Rights, Carbon Tax
November 13, 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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Editorial: Approve State Streetcar Funds San Antonio Express News A downtown streetcar system, like the one proposed by VIA Metropolitan Transit, would play a vital role in the ongoing effort to invigorate downtown San Antonio... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Federal Commute Benefits Req'd in NY? Mobilizing the Region A recent California law requiring many San Francisco-area businesses to provide federal transit commuting benefits will bring pocketbook relief to businesses and transit riders, and could be a good model for New York City... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Our Priorities for New WA Gov Seattle Transit Blog Following on my personal values and vision of a better future, and our first overall call on Governor-elect Inslee to lead with his own environmental values, here is our view of the top priorities for improving our transportation system to become more sustainable:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Much Naming Rights Would Be? Dallas Morning News Transportation Blog For more than a year Dallas Area Rapid Transit has contemplated selling the naming rights to its transit stations. It's a cash-generating concept - from Philadelphia to Cleveland and San Diego to Phoenix for starters... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Venice Swamped by Near Record Flooding Grist Every so often, a combination of high winds and high tides flood Venice, Italy. The phenomenon, known as acqua alta or "high water," submerges the already-sodden city in water feet deep. And - big surprise - it's happening more than it used to... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Evolution of Planning in 10 Diagrams The Atlantic Cities Le Corbusier's plan may not have had such power if he hadn't put it on paper. The French modernist architect wanted to reform the polluted industrial city by building "towers in a park" where workers might live high above the streets, surrounded by green space and far from their factories... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Yes We Have No Carbon Tax DC Streetsblog About 12 hours after President Obama won re-election, Bloomberg News ran this tantalizing headline: "Obama May Levy Carbon Tax to Cut U.S. Deficit, HSBC Says.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Weighted Density and No Zoning Keep Houston Houston If you don't read Austin Contrarian there is a really good set of articles over there about weighted density. Basically, instead of just dividing the total number of people into the total area in which they live, you cut the area into slices, find the density of each slice, then average the slices based on how many people live in each... Read On |
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Blogosphere: SF Earliest Public Housing Projects Curbed SF The city has a long and sometimes twisted history with public housing projects. Some still exist and some are getting a major overhaul, but all of the earliest public housing projects in San Francisco stem from a 75-year-old Federal housing law... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Policy, Not Preference, Shapes Cities The Greater Marin People keep writing about the effectof our urban policies, but very few outside the urbanist blogosphere write about the policies themselves. The articles that result satisfy our curiosity about change but fail to actually inform... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Measuring the Value of City Development Naked City Blog How should we measure the return that the city (or the county) gets from different kinds of development? An Asheville developer/planner is turning the answer to that question on its ear, by looking at the numbers per-acre, instead of per-project... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Non-Profits Can Drain City Budgets The Atlantic Cities Nonprofits in America range from small community charities to large national and international organizations and universities, hospitals, art museums, religious institutions and more... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Lipstick on the Suburban Pig American Dirt In the large American cities that lack a robust public transportation system-which is most of them-we justifiably celebrate every minor victory toward shifting development away from auto-centrism... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What McCrory's Win Really Means Naked City Blog Tuesday's gubernatorial election was a watershed for North Carolina, but for a reason that's gotten a lot less ink than the Red State-Blue State lines. For the first time in the history of this once-rural state, a big-city mayor moves into the Governor's Mansion... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Geography of James Bond The Atlantic Cities Everyone's favorite secret agent returns to theaters today, and in celebration, we've updated our Map of Bond -- or as one commenter accurately pointed out, the urban Map of Bond... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Green Salt Lake, Thanks Mormon Pioneers Grist If you said "Salt Lake City" during a game of free association, not too many folks would shout "sustainability" back at you. Unless they've spent some time in the burg of 200,000, you'd probably hear a variation on one of three things: Mormons, snow, or sobriety... Read On |
