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Dec 18th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Several attempts to include cities as a category worthy of consideration for the new breed of government financial bailout packages have been made recently. Now, a new letter from a non-profit urban revitalization group is making the rounds, collecting signers and support before trying its hand at asking for state money for ailing urban centers. (
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Dec 17th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Another questionable list-icle of American city rankings has popped up on CNN.com. This one seeks to rank American cities in terms of livabilty and seems a little…lifeless. (
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Dec 16th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
I’m shocked by every day that goes by without some pseudo-academic hipster art-star type taking the urban theory world’s reins and making the whole effort look a little sexier. Sometimes that shock turns into worry that
Next American City is just a placeholder to be left in a cooler, more culture-savvy kid’s dust. Urban thought is hot and waiting patiently for someone to capitalize on it. A new post on Gen-Y blog bible Hipster Runoff indicates the process may have begun. (
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Dec 3rd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
The award ceremony for the 3rd Annual Ed Bacon Student Design Competition were handed out to teams of young urban planners last night, and focusing on food seemed to be the way to get the prize money. The winning entries after the jump. (
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Nov 24th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. |
Earlier this month Philadelphia’s Mayor Michael Nutter hand-delivered a letter to 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and signed by himself and the mayors of Atlanta and Phoenix. In it he asked for cities to be included alongside banks, financial institutions and automobile manufacturers as recipients of the $700 billion TARP bailout package. That afternoon, the story got top billing on the Drudge Report. Days later it got nothing but ignored and, at best, derided. So what happened? (
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Nov 12th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
Stop the presses! The (um) September issue of online magazine Triple Canopy is so good…it’s worth ignoring for two months and then rhapsodizing about, a few months too late. (
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Nov 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Chicago, New York, Philadelphia |
On the last day of October a district court found that New York City would have to put a hold on its plan to replace its city’s taxi cabs with hybrid cars. Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired back by invoking the threat that the court’s ruling would prevent “all cities” from taking their environment and health into their own hands. I talked with some experts to see how real the threat was. (
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Oct 28th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia |
This weekend I attended a University of Pennsylvaia Institute for Urban Research conference called “The Shape of the New American City.” It started with academics and city employees quietly discussing new research on urban density and market trends. It drew to a close with Chris Matthews fielding a sea of energetic questions about Sarah Palin and Joe Six-Pack. Here, I try to figure out what it all means. (
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Oct 24th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
This morning I went to the experts to see what the future held. What I found was some surprises from the past, a lot of questions about the future, opportunities for thought about the big election, and a new interest in Mexico City. Thoughts on the presentations of Dowell Myers, Douglas Masey, and Saskia Sassan after the jump. (
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Oct 14th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Las Vegas |
Las Vegas — the fastest growing city in America — keeps changing in the strangest ways, and every new move gives us so much more to learn from, or at least to think about. (
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