Blogosphere: Transit & Cycling Gains, Case For Bus Transfers, Special Assessment Transit Fund, Urban Economics, SF Floating Ecotopia
October 29, 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: Report Shows Gains for Cycling, Transit Grist A new report from the National Conference of State Legislatures is full to the brim with findings on American urbanism and transportation alternatives... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Case for Bus Transfers The Atlantic Cities Earlier this week we tracked a designer's frustrating efforts to simplify Dublin's "confusing and nonsensical" bus system. Today we look at how a city might actually implement such a significant change... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Using Special Assessments to Fund Transit Urban Land Institute Across the country, hopes and ambitions for transit remain high, despite a scarcity of public resources to fund it. As local governments struggle, private sector landowners are offering solutions... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Struggles to Retain Black Professionals Burgh Diaspora Austin and San Antonio are siblings. The former is the most popular kid at school. The latter is a late bloomer, quiet and unassuming. Both metros suffer from the isolation that comes with sprawl... Read On |
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Blogosphere: New Urban Topologies, Alexandria Egypt Polis Blog Nine months after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, Färgfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture organized a three-day workshop in Alexandria with Gudran Association for Art and Development, the local Swedish Institute and the department of architecture at Alexandria University... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Revisiting Urban Economics Polis Blog In writing about cities, I often recall a course I took with Nathaniel Baum-Snow (thanks!), which drew upon "Lectures in Urban Economics" by Jan Bruekner. The three concepts outlined below are my biggest takeaways from the course... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Dallas Gets a Park Covering a Highway Next American City This weekend Dallas will see a big shift in its urban landscape, to come in the form of a park over a highway. Klyde Warren Park, a 5.2-acre deck park spanning the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, opens up to the public this Saturday... Read On |
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Blogosphere: SF's Floating Ecotopia Curbed SF IwamotoScott Architecture's Craig Scott presented at a TEDxCity2.0 event in town a few weeks ago, and brought with him a pretty bold vision for the future of San Francisco... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Imagining Growing Old in Suburbs Minnesota Post The world is becoming very, very old. I'm not talking about the rock on which we perch - about 4.5 billion years old by some estimates - but about us, the people. .. Read On |
