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Urban Issues: Corruption & State Capitals, Gen Y Housing Preferences, Growing Suburban Poverty, Value Of City Rankings

May 20, 2013
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Affordability, bicycles, Buffalo, California, Chicago, Demographics, Federal Policy, Florida, health, Health & Environment, housing, HUD, Illinois, Marin, Miami, Norfolk, Ridership, Santa Monica, Smart Growth & Sprawl, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, Transit, urban, Urban Form, Virginia
URBAN ISSUES Are State Capitals in Big Cities Less Corrupt?  Chicago Magazine, via: @otiswhite   Given that Chicago politics is code for pretty much anything anyone thinks is corrupt or even impolitely…
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Urban Issues: City Data Projects, State & Local Outlook Bleak, Income & Transpo Routes, Health Care & Urbanization

May 10, 2013
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Bay Area, Boston, California, Dubuque, Federal Policy, health, Health & Environment, HUD, Iowa, Massachusetts, State Policy, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, urban, Urban Form
URBAN ISSUES Cities Ramp Up Data Projects, Innovation  Governing   Dubuque, Iowa, has a population of just under 60,000, but it's doing something few other cities of its size have ever tried. It's embedding technology in utility meters to collect and analyze water, gas and electricity use
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Environment & Econology: Fastest Warming City, Beauty Amid Chicago Industry, Planning Sustainability Focus

May 9, 2013
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Chicago, Federal Policy, Health & Environment, HUD, Illinois, Kentucky, Lehigh Valley, Livability & Sustainability, Louisville, Pennsylvania, tracks, Tracks Environment & Ecology
ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Few Trees in Louisville, The Fastest Warming City  Next City   What's the scariest weather event you can think of? A hurricane? Tornado? Storm surge?
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Urban Issues: Silicon Valley Housing, San Ysidro Culture Exchange, HUD Partnerships, City Budget Solving

May 6, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Problem with Silicon Valley, No Housing Boom Slate Moneybox   The enormous wealth that’s pouring into Silicon Valley ought to be trickling down to at least some extent as a vast array of local service providers gain jobs and income as chefs, waiters, doctors, nurses, yoga instructors, gardeners, interior decorators, taxi drivers, accountants, opthamologists, tailors, and housekeepers to the new money elite.
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Urban Issues: Mel Watt FHFA, SF Ellis Act Maps, San Gabriel Valley Asian Population Growth, Suing Blight

May 3, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Tech Sets Up Shop in NYC’s DUMBO Neighborhood USA Today   Aaron Shapiro, CEO of digital agency Huge, remembers what it was like to set up shop in the area known as DUMBO 10 years ago.
Read On   Mel Watt Tapped to Lead FHFA National Housing Conference Open House   Yesterday, President Obama nominated Representative Mel Watt to lead the Federal Housing Finance…
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Urban Issues: HUD Downsizing, Eds and Meds, Turin's Resurgence and Paris' Governance

April 30, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES The Boom and Bust Cycle of Urban Investment New York Times   FOR the past several years all the ingredients have been in place for an urban crisis. Unemployment has hovered above 15 percent in many of our most distressed cities.
Read On   Paris’ Future Governance, a Discussion w Deputy Mayor Stephane Kirkland   As Paris’s Deputy Mayor in charge of “Paris Metropole” and relations with the region’s…
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Urban Issues: Knoxville Gentrification, HUD Restructure, Renter's Dilemma, Social Capital & NIMBYism

April 25, 2013
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Affordability, Demographics, Federal Policy, housing, HUD, Knoxville, Tennessee
URBAN ISSUES Does Knoxville Gentrification Deserve Support?  Knoxville Metro Pulse   Gentrification. In the past month, I've seen the concept defended on a local Internet forum, heard it derided in front-porch gabfests, and seen it awkwardly danced around in community meetings.
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Urban Issues: FBI Building Competition, New German Rental Regulations, Cleveland Cycle Of Abandonment, Selling Fed Property

April 22, 2013
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Affordability, California, Cleveland, Commuter Rail, DC, Development & Redevelopment, Employment & Transit, Federal Policy, Fresno, health, Health & Environment, High-Speed & Intercity Rail, housing, HUD, Maryland, Ohio, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, Transit, urban, Urban Form, Virginia, Washington DC
URBAN ISSUES Bid for FBI Building Sets off Healthy Competition  San Jose Mercury News   The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency-and attendant economic benefits-to their neighborhoods.
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Urban Issues: Job Sprawl Stall, Rental Preservation, HUD App Helps Homeless, Cupcake Craziness, Upgrading SF Water System

April 18, 2013
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Affordability, Atlanta, Bay Area, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Federal Policy, Georgia, housing, HUD, Illinois, New York, New York State, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, Smart Growth & Sprawl, State Policy, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, urban, Urban Form
URBAN ISSUES Recession Causes Job Sprawl to Stall  Brookings   As policymakers and regional leaders work to grow jobs and connect residents to economic opportunity following the Great Recession, where jobs locate matters.
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Urban Issues: Detroit Quest, Baby Boomer Urban Housing Impact, Building A Better City, Investing In Fiber, Housing Mititagates Transit Noise

April 15, 2013
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Affordability, Canada, Demographics, Detroit, Development & Redevelopment, Federal Policy, housing, Houston, HUD, Livability & Sustainability, Michigan, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York, New York State, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon , St. Paul, Texas, tracks, Tracks Urban Issues, Transit, Twin Cities, urban, Urban Form, Wisconsin
URBAN ISSUES Dan Gilbert's Quest to Bring Back Detroit  New York Times Magazine   THE best way to experience all that is strange and a little otherworldly about downtown Detroit is to walk the streets around 5 p.m. on a weekday.
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