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Yonah Freemark | Jan 16th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: Midwest | Cities: Detroit |
Detroit seemed on track for building a light rail line to serve one of its main commercial strips. But city leaders backtracked in favor of improving the buses that connect Detroit to its suburbs. Yonah Freemark explains why, at this stage of the process, the change in priorities is a bad idea. (
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Eric Mayes|The Philadelphia Tribune | Jan 13th, 2012 | Topic: Governance, Economy | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
Under the law, which was signed into law by Mayor Michael Nutter in April, employers with 10 or more employees are forbidden, on employment applications, to ask whether a candidate for a job has a criminal history — nor can the question be asked in a first interview. The law goes into effect today. (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jan 12th, 2012 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
Zoe Strauss, Philadelphia’s foremost photographer, opens her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Saturday. Diana Lind makes a case for why Strauss matters not only to the art scene, but to the urbanism field. (
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Matt Bevilacqua | Next American City | Jan 11th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure, Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Many building owners have been skeptical of investing in energy retrofits because they don’t know if sustainability pays off — until now. Could a new report from Deustche Bank be a game changer in the sustainability, retrofits and finance worlds? (
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Sandra Svoboda|City Limits | Jan 11th, 2012 | Topic: Economy | Region: | Cities: Detroit |
DETROIT: The auto bailout helped Motor City. Could immigration save it?
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jan 10th, 2012 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
Next American City is launching the Storefront for Urban Innovation this spring. Executive Director Diana Lind writes about how the organization hopes to broaden its audience and increase its impact with this new experiment. (
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Jed Horne|The Lens | Jan 10th, 2012 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
“Now, you can’t even tell who’s the child and who’s the parent. We lost that structure, and instead we got babies having babies. We need to address that.”—John Thompson (
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Yolanne Almanzar|The New York World | Jan 9th, 2012 | Topic: Governance, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York |
A taxpayer-funded affordable housing development in a racially divided section of Brooklyn has been halted by a lawsuit alleging the project will benefit the area’s Hasidic Jewish community to the detriment of other residents in the area. (
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Streetsblog | Jan 7th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: | Cities: Seattle |
Located on a pair of peninsulas, the city of Seattle isn’t so easy to reach from its eastern suburbs. Only two bridges cross Lake Washington. Newly-installed tolls across one of the two, the SR-520 bridge, have the potential to seriously reshape travel patterns in the region.
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Maxim Nasab | Jan 6th, 2012 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
A non-violent protest, Occupy Montréal has left its encampment but the beat goes on nonetheless. (
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Detroit seemed on track for building a light rail line to serve one of its main commercial strips. But city leaders backtracked in favor of improving the buses that connect Detroit to its suburbs. Yonah Freemark explains why, at this stage of the process, the change in priorities is a bad idea. (keep reading…)
Under the law, which was signed into law by Mayor Michael Nutter in April, employers with 10 or more employees are forbidden, on employment applications, to ask whether a candidate for a job has a criminal history — nor can the question be asked in a first interview. The law goes into effect today. (keep reading…)
Zoe Strauss, Philadelphia’s foremost photographer, opens her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Saturday. Diana Lind makes a case for why Strauss matters not only to the art scene, but to the urbanism field. (keep reading…)
Many building owners have been skeptical of investing in energy retrofits because they don’t know if sustainability pays off — until now. Could a new report from Deustche Bank be a game changer in the sustainability, retrofits and finance worlds? (keep reading…)
DETROIT: The auto bailout helped Motor City. Could immigration save it? (keep reading…)
Next American City is launching the Storefront for Urban Innovation this spring. Executive Director Diana Lind writes about how the organization hopes to broaden its audience and increase its impact with this new experiment. (keep reading…)
“Now, you can’t even tell who’s the child and who’s the parent. We lost that structure, and instead we got babies having babies. We need to address that.”—John Thompson (keep reading…)
A taxpayer-funded affordable housing development in a racially divided section of Brooklyn has been halted by a lawsuit alleging the project will benefit the area’s Hasidic Jewish community to the detriment of other residents in the area. (keep reading…)
Located on a pair of peninsulas, the city of Seattle isn’t so easy to reach from its eastern suburbs. Only two bridges cross Lake Washington. Newly-installed tolls across one of the two, the SR-520 bridge, have the potential to seriously reshape travel patterns in the region. (keep reading…)
A non-violent protest, Occupy Montréal has left its encampment but the beat goes on nonetheless. (keep reading…)
