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  Diana Lind on Smart City Radio

  Next American City | Thu, Sep 11th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: milwaukee, diana lind, next american city, 24:hrs, smart city radio, carol coletta, radio | 2

  Ever wonder what Next American City’s editor sounds like? She sounds uncertain how to give a radio interview. Nonetheless, here she is talking about the magazine’s upcoming trip to Milwaukee — the plan for lectures, parties, and a 24:Hrs walking tour.

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• The Daily Report

  Painting the Town Pink

  Next American City | Mon, Aug 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, art, kat kondracki, adrian kondratowicz, renee mlynaryk, catherine kolnaski magnet school, garbage bags, garbage, trash | 1

  Artist Adrian Kondratowicz gives the standard trash bag a makeover. The bags raise environmental awareness but also cost a pretty penny. Fashionable or for real?

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• The Daily Report

  Would You Like a Coffee with That Bike Repair?

  Next American City | Wed, Aug 13th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Madison | Tags: kat kondracki, trek bicycle corporation, trek shop, wisconsin, machinery row bicycles, bicycling | 1

  Machinery Row Bicycles and Trek Bicycle Corporation join together to bring Madison, Wisc. bikers roadside assistance 24 hours a day.

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• The Daily Report

  Op-ed Flashback: Adding Accountability To Eminent Domain

  Next American City | Fri, Aug 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: eminent domain, urban renewal, new london, fort trumbull, annie lux | 0

  Annie Lux describes New London’s use of eminent domain in the 1960s and its use to reclaim the same land four decades later.

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• The Daily Report

  National Number of Homeless Drops Despite Foreclosure Crisis

  Next American City | Thu, Jul 31st, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: homeless, kat kondracki, michael stoops, hud, housing first, chronically homeless | 1

  The total number of homeless Americans drops approximately 12 percent, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development annual study. 

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• The Daily Report

  Mexican Photographers Document Their “World In Transition”

  Next American City | Wed, Jul 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Tucson | Tags: art, mexico, calista condo, tucson museum of art | 0

  The Mexico that Americans overlook is ever so evident in Mexican photography. With the utmost artistic quality Mexican photographers have documented their country’s social, cultural and political issues. Mexican Photographers Today: Facing a World of Transition, held at the Tucson Museum of Art, examines many aspects of Mexican life seen through the lens of 27 photographers who have lived it, giving the American viewer a chance to know Mexico as something other than a tourist destination. 

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• Headlines

  Untangling Intersections

  Next American City | Fri, Jul 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: new york city, transportation, brooklyn, kat kondracki, wiley norvell, transportation alternatives, sustainable, 21st century street, alternative transportation, streets, intersection | 0

  Transportation Alternatives, a New York City-based advocacy group for walking, bicycling, and public transit, encourages the public to register in a complete street design competition.
  

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• The Daily Report

  Op-ed: Diversity and the changing face of suburbia

  Next American City | Fri, Jul 18th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: suburbs, edward blakely, robert lang, diversity | 0

  Adapted from an essay in Next American City, this op-ed by Robert Lang and Edward Blakely explores the state of the American suburb.

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• The Daily Report

  Broken Branches Never Looked So Valuable

  Next American City | Thu, Jul 17th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Hoover | Tags: kat kondracki, ethanol, alabama, alternative fuel, wood, foreign oil, hoover, gulf coast energy | 0

  Hoover, Ala. and Gulf Coast Energy have teamed up to create renewable fuel from, of all things, wood scraps.

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• The Daily Report

  The Industrial Image

  Next American City | Wed, Jul 16th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, calista condo, bernd and hill becher, getty center, art exhibit, industrial, monograph | 0

  Bernd and Hilla Becher have documented their industrial surrounds since the 1960s. With the creation of monographs and typologies made from their photos, their works have created an innovative view of the dying industrial structures and the mundane things we see everyday. Their work will be on display at the Getty Center in Los Angeles until September. 

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• The Daily Report

  Street Life Photo Exhibit: An In-depth Look at 1970s Counterculture

  Next American City | Thu, Jul 3rd, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Atlanta | Tags: atlanta, 1960s, photography, museum, danny lyon, high museum, exhibition | 0

  The High Museum of Art in Atlanta Georgia will be holding a photography exhibit entitled Street Life: American Photographers from the 1960s and 70s until August 10th. Focusing on four American photographers that documented four various aspects of life, the collected work comes together as a broad overview of American culture at that time.

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• The Daily Report

  Birmingham’s Workweek Gets a Makeover

  Next American City | Tue, Jul 1st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Birmingham | Tags: transportation, kat kondracki, gas, alabama, birmingham, larry p. langford, april odom, workweek | 0

  To ameliorate the toll of rising gas costs, Birmingham officials formulated an alternative work-schedule solution. As of July 1st, the city’s new 10-hour, four-day workweek will be in effect, announced mayor Larry P. Langford. 

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• The Daily Report

  It Takes a Village

  Next American City | Mon, Jun 30th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, california, sustainability, traffic, jeremy rosenberg, lois arkin, car retraining | 0

  On a block with a quixotic history, Lois Arkin and company dream up a sustainable urban community. Guest-blogger Jeremy Rosenberg reports from Los Angeles.

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• The Daily Report

  Greening a White City

  Next American City | Thu, Jun 12th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Juneau | Tags: energy, alaska, juneau, maria gladziszewski, kathryn kondracki, hydropower, electricity, diesel, avalanche, ael&p;scott willis | 0

  While urbanites are still dabbling with the idea of reusable grocery totes and recyclable water bottles, Alaska’s capital city brought a whole new meaning to going green this past April when lines connecting Juneau to the Snettisham hydroelectric power plant were destroyed by an avalanche.

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• New Sustainable Development Rolls Doubles

  Next American City | Thu, Jun 5th, 2008 | City: Boston | Tags: environment, energy, boston, kat kondracki, development, olmsted green, housing development, lena, monopoly, housing | 1

  According to the developer of Lena Park, Boston’s new Olmstead Green will consist of 153 affordable housing units and live up to its name by offering environment-friendly equipment and eco-savvy designs.

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• The Daily Report

  William Fulton’s Tribute to Robert Maguire

  Next American City | Tue, Jun 3rd, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Los Angeles | Tags: building, los angeles, downtown, california, architects, next american city, development, robert maguire, william fulton | 0

  Yesterday, L.A. Times ran this tribute piece by William Fulton. “He took downtown to a new place” is an ode to an urban planner that, in Fulton’s words, defined a decade of development. 

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• The Daily Report

  Op-ed: Why Booming Cities Still Need Visionary Mice—and Artists

  Next American City | Mon, May 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: gentrification, next american city, artists, carly berwick, soho, op ed | 0

  Carly Berwick, contributing writer for Next American City, wrote this op-ed in the fall of 2007 about the significance of arts gentrification in SoHo and how the same principles can be applied to other cities

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• Gated Communities: The Beginning of a Privatized Future?

  Next American City | Fri, Apr 18th, 2008 | City: Sacramento | Tags: gated communitites, josh leon, sacramento, private space, public space | 0

  Josh Leon, contributing writer to Next American City, discusses the consequences, both good and bad of Sacramento’s gated communities. This op-ed was published in The Sacramento News & Review on January 17, 2008. 

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• Web Exclusives

  Exclusive Interview with Horacio Castellanos Moya

  Next American City | Thu, Apr 17th, 2008 | Category: Guests | Tags: | 0

  In 1993, following the shocking assassination of Algerian writer Tahar Djaout, the international literary community proposed a series of cities be established to protect writers facing persecution and death in their home countries. Among those provided sanctuary is Salvadoran writer and journalist Horacio Castellanos Moya, exiled after receiving death threats in response to the political criticism in his novel El Asco: Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador. With the recent publication of the English translation of his novel Insensatez (Senselessness), Jennifer Dionisio spoke with Moya about the impact of his transient life on his work and the elusive nature of home.

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