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• More to Learn from Las Vegas

  Nick Lalla | Oct 14th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Las Vegas | 4

  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.   (keep reading…)

• North Philadelphia’s Problems Are Also Obama’s

  Josh Leon | Oct 13th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia | 0

  This past weekend Barack Obama came to visit Philadelphia. On one of his stops in North Philadelphia, we all got a chance to see the neighborhood’s problems. Will Obama be able to fix them?   (keep reading…)

• 24 Hours in Your Own Town

  Dave Steele | Oct 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: Central | Cities: Milwaukee | 1

  What happens when you set out to experience a city in 24 straight hours, with no sleep?   (keep reading…)

• McCain/Obama Surrogate Debate Event at the AIA

  Benjamin Gilbert | Oct 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia | 2

  
  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…)

• Diana Lind to Speak at Creative Cities Summit

  Diana Lind | Next American City | Oct 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Austin, Detroit | 1

  The Creative Cities Summit in Detroit will run from October 12 to October 15. On the 15th, I will be delivering the keynote luncheon speech about what young urban leader organizations are doing in cities across the country.   (keep reading…)

• New York Copes With Extremes of the “New Economy”

  Josh Leon | Oct 2nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York | 0

  Good architecture speaks volumes, and the digital façade of the Lehman Brothers building on Seventh Avenue says “welcome to the new economy.”   (keep reading…)

• Filmmakers Tia Lessin & Carl Deal “Trouble the Water”

  Hamida Kinge | Oct 2nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans, New York | 0

  Next American City interviews Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about their groundbreaking film Trouble the Water, currently playing in theaters.   (keep reading…)

• The Next American City Playlist

  Benjamin Gilbert | Oct 2nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Austin | 4

  Remember when Next American City Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind asked readers just under three weeks ago, “Can anyone out there make a map of all the cities that are mentioned in these songs? It would be cool and we’d post it somewhere.” She was of course referencing the playlist put together by DJ Doug Sell for our Issue #20 Release Party. And wouldn’t you know it, someone went out and made the map!   (keep reading…)

• Will WiMAX Bridge the Digital Divide?

  Holly Otterbein | Oct 1st, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Baltimore | 2

  When WiMAX was just a geek buzzword seven years ago, people predicted that the successor to Wi-Fi would eventually bridge the digital divide. Baltimore recently became the first WiMAX city in America, and the service’s prospects look mediocre at best. Will WiMAX live up to its hype, or turn the divide into a chasm?   (keep reading…)

• The NY Sun Sets — A Beginning of an Era?

  Diana Lind | Next American City | Sep 30th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York | 0

  The New York Sun, a conservative paper that was almost entirely freely distributed to the wealthier zip codes of New York, has failed to finance its future. I should be cheering the demise a paper with an editorial page almost as heinous as the Wall Street Journal‘s, but I’m much more concerned about the relationship between cities and their papers. Read on.   (keep reading…)
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