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Nov 12th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles |
On Oct. 31,
Next American City and over 100 guests explored Los Angeles’ hidden gem, Farmlab. The afternoon lunch, courtesy of Farmlab, included a spread of fresh foods and vegetables including some ingredients - cactus and bananas - grown on the premises! Occidental College’s Mark Vallianatos then took attendees through a brief history of food in Los Angeles, highlighting some of the key conversations at the moment including the lack of affordable fresh food in several neighborhoods, the demand for schools to offer healthy alternatives and the recent fast food ban. (
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Nov 12th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles |
Over 150 guests attended the Urbanexus: Los Angeles event series. The lecture, held at A+D Museum, brought out a crowd of 50+ for a discussion on architecture in the city. The next day, at Farmlab, over 100 attendees contributed to a conversation on the politics of food in a city like Los Angeles. (
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Nov 4th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
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Oct 23rd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: Central | Cities: Milwaukee |
During Next American City’s recent trip to Milwaukee, Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind moderated a symposium on public transportation. We present the full video here, exclusively on the
Next American City website. (
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Oct 22nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Two weeks ago, Next American City and the Penn Institute for Urban Research co-hosted a McCain/Obama surrogate debate. Exclusively on our website we have full video from the event. (
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Oct 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
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Oct 2nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Austin |
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Sep 30th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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On Oct. 31, Next American City and over 100 guests explored Los Angeles’ hidden gem, Farmlab. The afternoon lunch, courtesy of Farmlab, included a spread of fresh foods and vegetables including some ingredients - cactus and bananas - grown on the premises! Occidental College’s Mark Vallianatos then took attendees through a brief history of food in Los Angeles, highlighting some of the key conversations at the moment including the lack of affordable fresh food in several neighborhoods, the demand for schools to offer healthy alternatives and the recent fast food ban. (keep reading…)
This Thursday, Friday and Saturday the UPenn School of Design and the Penn Institute for Urban Research will play host to the first annual symposium titled “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil.” (keep reading…)
On Monday night at the American Institute of Architects Philadelphia chapter, surrogate debaters representing Senator and presidential hopeful John McCain as well as Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama met to discuss their respective parties stances on city-specific politics. (keep reading…)
