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  Make a Connection: NAC’s Limited Edition Program

  Diana Lind | Mon, Aug 25th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: art, politics, map, united states, harvard gsd, neil freeman, psychogeography, limited edition, 2004 election | 0

  What does it look like when you connect more than 3,000 American cities with one line? Nothing like the political maps you see on nytimes.com — but probably something like Identically Named Places Connected (USA) . 

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• The Daily Report

  Driving Through Detroit

  Diana Lind | Thu, Aug 21st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Detroit | Tags: detroit, artists, detroit free press, urban renewal, palmer woods, demolition | 2

  One of the most-commented-on stories from Issue #19 of Next American City is Rob and Andy Linn’s take on demolition in Detroit. I recently came across an old piece by Bill McGraw of the Detroit Free Press where he drove 2,700 miles —every block of Detroit — during four months. In a five-part series, he explains that the city looks a lot worse — and better — than he thought.

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• The Daily Report

  Changing the City, One Organic Deli at a Time

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, diana lind, gentrification, organic deli | 2

  In a recent blog post about Philly’s ongoing self-hatred a discussion emerged about the appalling lack of activity on the 1300 Block of Walnut Street. In one of the formerly vacant storefronts, we’re now getting an organic deli. How much does one small change mean for a city of 1.5 million people? 

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• The Daily Report

  Dark Sky to City Dwellers: Get Lost

  Diana Lind | Mon, Aug 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, diana lind, university of pennsylvania, perseids, astronomy, clark park, brandywine state park | 3

  Tonight’s the peak of the Perseid’s meteor shower, but I can’t watch it from my backyard in Philly. Let’s lament together the city’s lack of access to nighttime nature.

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• The Daily Report

  MoMA’s Home Delivery: A Disappointment

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: architecture, diana lind, moma, prefab, home delivery | 0

  MoMA’s big summer show is called Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. If this is the future of architecture, I regrettably have to say I want no part of it.

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• The Daily Report

  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, ariella cohen, cafe du monde, cab drivers, frenchman street, next urban summit | 1

  What’s New Orleans like these days? It depends on who you ask.I went down to New Orleans for the Next Urban Summit expecting to see a city in tatters. Instead, I found that NOLA looks better than I’d ever seen it before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
  

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• The Daily Report

  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, ariella cohen, cafe du monde, cab drivers, frenchman street, next urban summit | 0

  What’s New Orleans like these days? It depends on who you ask.I went down to New Orleans for the Next Urban Summit expecting to see a city in tatters. Instead, I found that NOLA looks better than I’d ever seen it before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
  

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• NAC News

  Let the Good Conversations Roll

  Diana Lind | Tue, Jul 22nd, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: new orleans, nola yurp | 1

  NOLA Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals is serving up its first Next Urban Summit this week — where should a young urbanist go if she’s been on the Katrina damage tour, seen the Garden District, been to jazz in the French Quarter?

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• The Daily Report

  Where’s the Love? Philly Keeps Losing People

  Diana Lind | Fri, Jul 11th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, architecture, diana lind, gentrification, taxes, philadelphia inquirer | 20

  Yesterday the Inky dealt the latest blow to the city’s self-esteem: in the past seven years, Philly’s run a population deficit of 68,000. The only American city to lose more people was New Orleans.

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• The Daily Report

  The Big Apple’s Little Gambles

  Diana Lind | Thu, Jul 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: transportation, downtown, transit, diana lind, brooklyn, paris, manhattan, bikes, bike share 2008, congestion, city room blog | 1

  New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real?

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• The Daily Report

  Philadelphia’s Ongoing Self-Perception Problem

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jun 23rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: environment, philadelphia, building, brooklyn, pennpraxis, mayor nutter, harris steinberg, commerce, design montreal | 9

  Last week Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter presented a new plan for reviving Philadelphia’s waterfront to packed audience at the Museum of Natural History. I didn’t make it to the event, but have been eagerly awaiting some of the response. As per usual, Philadelphians are pretty down on their city. But now they’re picking on the block where I work (seen at right in earlier days)…

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• The Daily Report

  Philly’s Number One! But Not in a Good Way…

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jun 9th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: new york city, philadelphia, economy, diana lind, jobs, money, budget, incarcarations, prison, number one, prisons | 0

  As Karen Heller writes today on Philly.com — Philadelphia leads the country in percentage of citizens incarcerated. Read on to find out why prisons are a booming industry, how many grams of cocaine you could fit in a sugar packet, and why keeping a prisoner in jail is about the cost of a year’s tuition at a fancy college.

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  Wither American City: Change and Hope for Urban Areas?

  Diana Lind | Tue, Apr 22nd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: suburbs, republican, infrastructure, transit, diana lind, pennsylvania, democrats, ohio, texas | 1

  It’s election day in Philadelphia. And Diana Lind is not voting. Read on to find out why. 

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• The Daily Report

  The Sludge Report: Greener Grass or Reckless Research in Baltimore?

  Diana Lind | Mon, Apr 14th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Baltimore | Tags: diana lind, research, baltimore, maryland, sludge | 0

  According to a shocking Associated Press article released yesterday, federally subsidized scientists applied human and industrial wastes to the lawns of nine low-income families in Baltimore, hoping that such “fertilizer” would prevent the families’ children from lead poisoning. Something smells funny to Diana Lind.

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  Key Magazine: Unlocking Urban Realities?

  Diana Lind | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new york city, suburbs, growth, foreclosure, diana lind, brooklyn, magazine, new york times, real estate, key magazine | 3

  This past weekend saw the latest edition of the New York Times’s Key magazine. Usually a source of real estate porn, the magazine usually looks at the froth in the housing market and winks. With the exception of a piece about a company that tends to magnates’ private wineries, the latest issue was decidedly sober. More details in today’s featured commentary by Next American City editor Diana Lind.
  

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