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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Nov 2nd, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Infrastructure, Governance | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Urban Nation’s first post from the road documents the burgeoning clean energy scene in Buffalo, and examines a few start-ups’ relationship with federal programs. Scroll down to see a slideshow. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Oct 26th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Economy | Region: Urban Nation, Midwest | Cities: Urban Nation |
Urban Nation will be reporting from the Midwest for the next two weeks, examining the relationship between local revitalization efforts and the federal government. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Oct 18th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Economy | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
“Robo-signers”, as they’ve come to be called, are people who work at large lending houses who sign as many affidavits a day as they can, to help liquidate their backlog of foreclosed homes. Turns out, this can lead to errors, like foreclosing on people who are current on their payments. Oops. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Oct 13th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Infrastructure | Region: Urban Nation, West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Urban Nation |
The Administration’s Infrastructure Problem: Ray LaHood likes to compare high-speed rail investments to Eisenhower’s Highway Act, but the comparison is somewhat inapt. Local resistance to HSR underscores this point. How can the federal government get people to care about rail when so few use it? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Oct 8th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
The White House Office of Urban Affairs has just launched its new interdisciplinary approach to combating urban poverty: The Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative. With place-specific participation and collaboration from several agencies, this will be a new type of federal anti-poverty campaign. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Oct 4th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Culture, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles, New York, Urban Nation |
The
New York Times’ David Brooks and the
Washington Post‘s Kathleen Parker both show massive blindspots for the issues inherent to the suburban project. Because the two are arbiters of conventional wisdom, this is problematic. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 23rd, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Economy, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, South, West Coast | Cities: Phoenix, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
The Brookings blog at The New Republic examines the Census’ 2009 poverty numbers state by state. The findings are depressing, but perhaps they show a way forward. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 20th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, South | Cities: New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
HUD recently released a report on New Orleans’ housing stock—the first since 2004—and it shows a lot of regrowth, except for affordable rentals. What does that mean for New Orleans? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 15th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Economy, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Detroit, New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Timothy Noah, on
Slate, is putting out an excellent series on the growing income inequality here in the United States. How has this history of income compressions and divergences helped shaped the places we live? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 13th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Government Challenges, Your Solutions: The White House’s Chief Technology Officer recently announced the launch of Challenge.gov, a platform for hosting government design challenges, and a step forward in open government. What sorts of challenges are there, though? (
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Urban Nation’s first post from the road documents the burgeoning clean energy scene in Buffalo, and examines a few start-ups’ relationship with federal programs. Scroll down to see a slideshow. (keep reading…)
Urban Nation will be reporting from the Midwest for the next two weeks, examining the relationship between local revitalization efforts and the federal government. (keep reading…)
Timothy Noah, on Slate, is putting out an excellent series on the growing income inequality here in the United States. How has this history of income compressions and divergences helped shaped the places we live? (keep reading…)
Government Challenges, Your Solutions: The White House’s Chief Technology Officer recently announced the launch of Challenge.gov, a platform for hosting government design challenges, and a step forward in open government. What sorts of challenges are there, though? (keep reading…)
