Blogosphere: TIFIA Loan Changes, China's Bike Boom, Individualism & Sustainability, Market-Oriented Urbanism
July 5, 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: TIFIA Loan Program Ignores National Goals DC Streetsblog In the highly polarized and antagonistic transportation bill negotiations, dragged out over the course of almost a year, there was one thing that Democrats and Republicans could agree on: vastly expanding the TIFIA loan program... Read On |
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Blogosphere: China's Booming Bikes The City Fix The Beijing Municipal Government recently launched a new public bike rental program, though this is not Beijing's first foray into bike sharing. There are 39 public bike schemes in China-dwarfing all other nations... Read On |
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Blogosphere: BRT on the Midtown Greenway The Transportationist In a recent streets.mn post: Do or do not, there is no plan, (a Yoda reference for the Star Wars challenged, where "plan" is a verb rather than a noun) I complained about over redundant planning, speed of implementation, and paralysis by analysis for inevitable projects like the Midtown Greenway transit line... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Federal Bill Means for Indy Urban Indy Last week, a federal conference committee released a report detailing the next federal surface transportation bill. If you follow transportation news at the national level, you know that this debate has further divided the left and right... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Individualism and Sustainability Seattle Transit Blog A typical trope often heard between the explosions of fireworks on July 4th is about the Declaration of Independence and its hallowing of the rights of the individual over and against excessive government... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mayor Moving Towards Compromise Houston Tomorrow Houston Mayor Annise Parker wants to invest in growing the city's transit system, but also sees merits in keeping the general mobility fund, according to The Houston Chronicle:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Challenge to Market Oriented Urbanists Net Density Josh Barro, over at City Journal, makes some good points about the real contribution of subsidies to the auto/transit war. However, I'm disappointed that this is yet another example of "market-oriented urbanists" (MOUs) admiring the problem without proposing a solution... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities More Than Just Buildings and Parks ASLA Dirt In Urban Composition: Developing Community through Design, Professor Mark C. Childs, who teaches architecture at the University of New Mexico, declares that "settlements are not just the sums of their parts; their poetry and vitality comes from their collective composition - the interactions among multiple designs.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Ikea Land in East London Urban Times Swedish furniture giant, Ikea, recently announced that it intends to build a residential estate in London's East End, very near the entrance to the new Olympic Park, and attracted a lot of coverage in the British press, both in print and across the Web... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Special Taxing Districts Meet Resistance Next American City In the last year, Philadelphia has seen the first significant resistance to the formation of Neighborhood Improvement Districts in its 22 years of implementing them... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Undergrounding Utilities Transportationist After a thunderstorm, I was disempowered for about 5 hours today. Certainly not the end of civilization, but perhaps its foreshadowing... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Will New York Strangle Itself with Success The Urbanophile Big cities have been on a bit of a roll in recent years. But sometimes you can have too much success, as we may be seeing in the case of New York. This week the New York Times reported that finance firms are moving mid-level jobs away from Wall Street to places like Salt Lake City and Charlotte. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Patent Office Belongs Downtown Denver Infill You probably have heard the news already that the federal government has just selected Denver, along with two other cities (Dallas and San Jose) to join Detroit as the four cities to receive a branch location of the U. S. Patent Office... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Will It Cost to Bury Power Lines? Greater Greater Washington Should more of the power lines in the region be underground? That's a question many are asking as many residents of DC, Maryland, and Virginia remain without power over 3 days after a storm and may not get it back for days more... Read On |
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Blogosphere: PA Tax Incentives for Small Towns Next American City Preservationists across Pennsylvania are celebrating as the new state budget, signed into law on June 30 by Gov. Tom Corbett, created the Historic Preservation Incentive Act... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Rules That Shape Cities Next American City There are many factors that shape a city, but the most overlooked - and perhaps the most important - are the rules and regulations that govern everything from street width to building height to parking and density minimums... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Critics of Creative Class Don't Get The Atlantic Cities A recent article in the inaugural issue of Thirty Two magazine purports to undercut my theory of the creative class and economic development. .. Read On |
