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Josh Leon | Nov 24th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Most days if you walk around Philadelphia, you can sense the racial segregation — what kind of impact will Obama, local budget cuts and the memory of Frank Rizzo have on the city’s slow efforts to make the center city all-inclusive? (
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Nick Lalla | 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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Dave Steele | Nov 19th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: Central | Cities: Milwaukee |
Our man in Milwaukee gives a fuller re-cap of the 24:Hrs Milwaukee tour. Highlights include:a walking tour, a boat ride, dancing, closing Wolski’s and waiting an extra hour for the sun to rise. (
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Holly Otterbein | Nov 18th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston, Philadelphia |
First, Houston planned for a “cloud” of free wireless to blanket the entire city. When that didn’t work, it settled for small “bubbles” of wireless in certain neighborhoods. The
Houston Chronicle recently reported that it, too, did not pan out. What’s next — a “nanopocket” accessible only to molecules? (
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Ariella Cohen | Nov 17th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans, New York |
New Orleans is a hard city for good ideas. It’s not that there is a lack of them, just the opposite. The city is full of good ideas — ideas that are never implemented. It’s a city full of displaced dreamers, talented people who come from all over to a place where success as it is defined elsewhere is overshadowed by indigenous social markers most often involving whiskey and parades. (
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Helen I. Hwang | Nov 14th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: San Francisco |
It’s a limited-time offer, as they say, for cities to get a municipal Wi-Fi start. (
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Pooja Shah | Nov 13th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Join Next American CIty for a holiday celebration as we unveil Issue 21! (
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Benjamin Gilbert | 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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Benjamin Gilbert | 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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Nick Lalla | 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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Join Next American CIty for a holiday celebration as we unveil Issue 21! (keep reading…)
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…)
