Blogosphere: POTUS Plan Lacks Transit, Making City Walkable, Streetcars Vs. Buses, Buying American Buses & Jobs, Cleveland TOD
| 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: Why Are School Buses Yellow? New York Times Cityroom (via @mikelydon) A question came to mind as school bus drivers prepared to start their engines on Wednesday on 7,700 public-school routes in New York City and end their monthlong strike: Why are most school buses yellow?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: POTUS' Infrastructure Plan, Lack Transit Next City (via @ttpolitic) President Obama today unveiled an infrastructure spending plan that calls for focusing on urgent upgrades and repairs while expediting projects via public-private cooperation and cutting red tape... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Making City More Walkable is Not Zoning DC Streetsblog In last week's Washington Post, Roger K. Lewis, an architect and professor at the University of Maryland, wrote an intriguing column suggesting that it's time for a big rethink of the concept of zoning, which he says is a relic of the early 20th century:.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Problems Distract from Streetcar Value City Beat I've been a longtime supporter of the streetcar project, but I have to admit I'm a bit worried after finding out the streetcar might be delayed once again because construction bids for the project were way over budget... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mobile Batter Problem Solved in 1908 Human Transit [Thomas Edison] has so far perfected his storage battery that it will live long enough to stand charges to carry a truck over fifty thousand miles... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Streetcars More Flexible About Capacity Greater Greater Washington Streetcars and buses have different strengths and weaknesses, and are better at accomplishing different goals. Flexibility is often touted as a major strength of buses... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Buying American Buses Creates US Jobs Huffington Post The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (aka L.A. Metro) needed new, clean buses. If L.A. Metro had simply followed current buying protocol, its single focus would have been on finding a company to deliver the lowest-cost buses... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Poor Rural Communities Market for Solar? Tree Hugger I've written before about how solar is a life saver in poor rural communities. Contrary to popular misconceptions in richer nations, however, this is not simply about charity... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is It Over for Green Design? Dezeen (via @aarieff) Tech has killed green. Until recently the design world was on a mission to save the planet; now it seems enthralled by gadgets... Read On |
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Blogosphere: On Compost Net Density The thing that really caught my attention was a report on the results of a series of student dumpster dives around campus. After collecting and sorting all the garbage, they found that about three-quarters of Duke's so-called non-recyclable trash destined for area landfills was compostable... Read On |
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Blogosphere: DC Wants to be Greenest City ASLA Dirt At the Old Capitol Pump House, a restored building along the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Grey announced the launch of the long-awaited Sustainable D.C. plan... Read On |
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Blogosphere: TOD in Cleveland's Urban Core CEOs for Cities As Cleveland's inner city population has yet to stabilize, despite a massive influx of young professionals, the city has turned to transit as a promising fix for the city's problems... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Role of Psychiatrist in the City CNU Let's face it, large cities and urban areas can be pretty crazy places at times. So many people to deal with on a daily basis, so much noise, so much traffic, and so much general stress... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Boston City Services Truck Resourceful Next City "We need to find new ways of channeling the world's resources in ways that are smarter, more efficient and ultimately more meaningful," Next City Executive Director Diana Lind said Tuesday night at a symposium hosted by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Chicago's Changing Racial Demographics Urbanophile The Huffington Post pointed me at this graphic below, which shows how the racial makeup of Chicago's community areas changed between 1910 and 2000... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Data Sources Tell of Declining Mobility Housing Perspectives The Census Bureau recently released its usual extensive Current Population Survey (CPS)-based package of tables on geographic mobility for 2011-12... Read On |
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Blogosphere: China to Tax Carbon Per Square Mile If it pans out, China's carbon tax could be monumental. The top rate of $8 per tonne is still shy of what some experts I've spoke with think is an appropriate rate, at least for the U.S... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Haussmann's Renovation of Paris Urban Times Paris, one of the global capital hubs of the world, has been through tremendous transformation throughout history. The city has withstood poverty, disease, underdevelopment, deindustrialisation, criticism and many hardships throughout 19th Century... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Dallas Looking for Olympics Walkable DFW As you know, because you may live in Dallas or otherwise, Dallas is pursuing an Olympic bid for 2024... Read On |
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Blogosphere: MIT to Collaborate on AIA Public Health PR Newswire To address the urgent need for solutions to ongoing urban challenges, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Center for Advanced Urbanism today announced a new research collaboration focused on how design can improve the health of urban communities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Bioconcrete Uses Bacteria to Heal Itself This Big City No product evokes a sense of solidity and sturdiness the way concrete does. However, the tiniest of cracks in an otherwise colossal slab will inevitably lead to structural degradation, leakages and costly repairs... Read On |
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Blogosphere: James Rojas - Shut Down the Powerpoint Next City "Commercial corridors are always in a state of flux," Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer told a crowd of assembled urbanites on Saturday. She needn't have... Read On |
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Blogosphere: The Homogenization of San Francisco The Bold Italic It hit me while watching that viral video of local stereotypes, "Shit San Franciscans Say," that there's currently a great divide between the ideas and values of new and old-school SF... Read On |
