Blogosphere: VMT Tax, Value Capture On Dulles Line, Final KC Streetcar Vote, LA 50 Parks Initiative, Dark Knight Lessons About Cities
August 27, 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: Is a VMT Tax A Good Idea? The Atlantic Cities Late last month the Associated Press reported that San Francisco transportation officials will study the idea of implementing a tax on vehicle-miles traveled as a way of decreasing congestion and increasing roads funds... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Value Capture Idea for Dulles Rail Bacon's Rebellion The decision of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to fund its $270 million share of the Rail-to-Dulles project by taxing landowners around its two METRO stations could create a prototype for financing transportation projects in the future, argues Jay Corbalis, regional coordinator of LOCUS at Smart Growth America... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Could Transit Tax Transform Cinci Urban Cincy America's anti-tax zealots assert that local taxes are prime motivators in the relocation of people and businesses from one part of the country to another. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Final Streetcar Election Coming Transit KC The second (and final) downtown streetcar election has been scheduled and will consist of two questions (one for the sales tax, one for the special assessments on residential, commercial, and municipal property - vote yes for both, as both must pass for either to take affect!)... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
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Blogosphere: Can Bohemia Be Saved? Salon Of all the enviously coveted urban baubles, nothing compares with bohemia. Its allure drove cash-poor artists to crime-infested Williamsburg in Brooklyn decades ago... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Brief History of Birth of Urban Planning The Atlantic Cities At America's first urban planning conference, held in New York in 1898, a British planner asked whether he and his colleagues were striving for beautiful people or beautiful cities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: LA Mayor Announces 50 Parks Initiative Streetsblog LA Yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa formally announced that the city's "50 Parks Initiative" is underway. The city's Recreation and Parks Department is acquiring land for fifty new parks, predominantly in park-poor population-dense neighborhoods... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Rise of Majority Asian Suburb The Atlantic Cities In the last several decades, the myth of the homogenous suburb has eroded. This is especially true for immigrants. In 2000, researchers discovered that 52 percent of immigrants in metropolitan areas were living in suburbs... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Dark Knight Shows Us About Cities Grist There's a lot not to love about The Dark Knight Rises, the crazyish new chapter in the latest Batman cycle: a series of actions and explosions so unconnected that they make a Rorschach test look like a syllogism by comparison... Read On |
