Blogosphere: Value Capture, Staten Island BRT, Bike Work Day Record, Density More Than High Rise, Death Of Detroit
May 14, 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: Value Capture Past, Present, Future Lincoln House Blog Although it's been used widely in Europe and Latin America, value capture - the concept of asking private landowners to contribute to the cost of infrastructure, for example, in anticipation of the rise of property values such projects bring - has been a little harder to find in the U.S. That may be changing. One notable project, the Dallas-Fort Worth Cotton Belt transit line, is based on fundamental principles of value capture... Read On |
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Blogosphere: MTA Chooses Busway for Staten Island Streetsblog The MTA announced yesterday that if it builds a new rapid transit line along Staten Island's North Shore, it will opt for bus rapid transit over light rail, an MTA spokesperson told Streetsblog. The obstacle now, as always, is money... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Record Breaking Bike to Work Day SF Streetsblog Bike to Work Day in the East Bay broke records once again yesterday, with ten mayors, dozens of council members, and over 17,000 participants riding - an overall 22 percent increase across the East Bay. The record-breaking number of elected officials riding in included the mayors of Albany, Berkeley, Piedmont, Dublin, Fremont, Emeryville, Hayward, Richmond, and Union City... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why Tax Car Sharing Like Cigarettes? The Atlantic Cities Rental-car taxes are a boon for big cities. They extract hefty contributions to local coffers from the constituents least likely to complain about it: out-of-towners... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Civility Amidst Diversity in Amman The Polis Blog To the newcomer, Amman seems like the tranquil eye of a cyclone. In this hilly city of 2.8 million people, the king and his family smile gently from portraits on the walls. Amman has a long history of immigration, including recent Iraqi and Syrian refugees and a large Palestinian community... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Do Density, Just Not High Rises Crosscut When it comes to land development, Americans famously dislike two things: sprawl and density. Over the past 50 years the pendulum swung sharply in the direction of spread-out, single-use, drive-everywhere-for-everything, low-density development. Now the pendulum is swinging back... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Really Killed Detroit? Car Free in Big D We've been sold a premise that Detroit died for a variety of reasons: over-reliance on a singularity of industry, the unions in that industry, the inability to innovate and keep up with the rest of the world, etc. But that is all based on the premise that 1) Detroit is dead, and 2) it died solely because of the auto industry... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Dispatch from CNU 20: Walking Helm of the Public Realm As you may know, the CNU20 conference was organized around tracks which allowed you to focus on your particular interest and how it related to New Urbanism. I spent most of my time on the "Mobility and Walkable City" since that is where my concentration lies... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Space, First But Not Final Frontier Helm of the Public Realm When I chose this breakout session, I didn't really fully understand the title, but I was confident that with "space" and "transportation," it had to be up my alley... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why Bay Area Doesn't Have 11M Residents Transportationist Having lived in the Bay Area for half a decade, I don't doubt there are housing restrictions in some municipalities. There are many municipalities. Some would welcome development. Other just demand more side payments... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Killing the ACS Actually Means The Atlantic Cities So the Republican-led House of Representatives this week voted 232-190 to eliminate the American Community Survey, the annual survey of about 3 million randomly chosen U.S. households that's like the Census only much more detailed... Read On |
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Blogosphere: G Maps Feature Takes You Inside Business Urban Cincy Cincinnatians have been able to use Google Maps for finding directions, transit information, traffic congestion, topography and other natural features, examining aerial imagery, and getting a first-person view of street scenes around the city. Now, Cincinnatians will be able to walk right inside of businesses and get a first-person view inside buildings... Read On |
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Blogosphere: More Charts About Poverty and Cities Getting Around Minneapolis Here comes more laz-e-boy social science from Alex. Following up on my response to Steve Berg's Strib op-ed from a couple weeks ago, I dug up the poverty rate for the 50 metro areas with 1 million population or more... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Guerrilla Gardeners Design as Politics Only a few years ago, the Irish were constructing huge amounts of beautiful houses attracting potential residents with various bathrooms, granite-topped built-in kitchens and a few acres of land to towns nobody had even thought of commuting from before - The inhabitants never came... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Human and Social Capital Takes the Bus This Big City I was sitting on the bus one morning this week, wearing my headphones, studiously avoiding eye contact with strangers and still waking up for the day ahead. Adhering to the unspoken rules of commuting in a major city, in other words... Read On |
