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  Brendan Crain | Wed, Jun 10th, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Chicago | Tags: chicago, public space, wisconsin, youtube, placemaking chicago, invent the future, growth patterns, plan of chicago, zaha hadid, metropolitan planning council, un studio, websites, daniel burnham, millennium park, flickr, chicago metropolitan agency for planning | 1

  Where’s Brendan Crain points to a recent cluster of interactive websites dealing with public spaces in Chicago.

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• Columnists

  Street Art and the Recession

  Julia Ramey | Wed, Mar 18th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: chicago, banksy, street art, recession, julia ramey, wildstyle, liverpool | 1

  In her new column, NAC Deputy Editor Julia Ramey wonders whether street art will thrive or flounder in the global downturn.

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  A Food Conundrum in Rural Illinois

  Jori Lewis | Wed, Mar 18th, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Chicago | Tags: chicago, jori lewis, cook county forest preserve, illinois local and organic food and farm task force, illinois state department of agriculture, kane county | 1

  NAC’s new Urban Leaders Fellow explains why so few people in Illinois get their produce from the state’s 76,000 farms.

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  When City Governments Outsource, Who Wins?

  Andrew Thompson | Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: | 1

  In the first installment of his new column, Metronomics, Andrew Thompson asks whether public-private partnerships are a worthwhile solution for cash-strapped cities—or a quick, risky fix.

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• Web Exclusives

  Cities Break Out the Piggy Bank

  Ariella Cohen | Thu, Jan 1st, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Chicago | Tags: seattle, new york, chicago, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, michael bloomberg, miami, financial crisis, savannah, jonathan mintz, lyndon johnson, san antonio | 0

  Hoping to staunch the financial crisis’s toll on city dwellers, cities are creating offices of financial empowerment. Aimed at cities’ low- and moderate-income constituents, these programs attempt to break the cycle of debt and aid social mobility, even in these tough times.

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• Columnists

  Obama Team Announces Office of Urban Policy

  Ben Adler | Wed, Nov 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: barack obama, ben adler, chicago, michael bloomberg, miami, adrian fenty, rahm emmanuel, anthony williams | 6

  While he first floated the idea of a cabinet position to coordinate urban policy at the annual conference of mayors in Miami this past summer, now Obama has promised action.

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  New Yorkers Found to be Breathing American Air, Mayor Gasps

  Nick Lalla | Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: new york, michael bloomberg, nick lalla, gavin newsom, philadelphia office of sustainability, richard m. daley, preemtion, environmental defense fund, environmental pollution control act, greening, mayors | 1

  On the last day of October a district court found that New York City would have to put a hold on its plan to replace its city’s taxi cabs with hybrid cars. Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired back by invoking the threat that the court’s ruling would prevent “all cities” from taking their environment and health into their own hands. I talked with some experts to see how real the threat was.

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  Will Obama Change our Cities?

  Josh Leon | Wed, Nov 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: john mccain, barack obama, infrastructure, chicago, george w. bush, martin luther king jr, the white house, rick pearlstein, chris matthews, north philadelphia | 0

  In a brief word — yes. But Obama’s plan for cities needs to be even more robust. Next American City Columnist Josh Leon looks at what this election means for cities.

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• NAC News

  Next American City wins an Ozzie!

  Pooja Shah | Tue, Sep 23rd, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: next american city, ozzie awards, folio | 2

  We won! Everybody here at Next American City is celebrating the official word that we won an Ozzie Award!

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  Independent Lens Community Cinema screening tonight

  Nick Lalla | Tue, Sep 23rd, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Chicago | Tags: philadelphia, art, film, brett morgan, public activism, chicago 10 | 0

  Brett Morgan’s film Chicago 10 will be screened in Philadelphia tonight, followed by a public discussion of political activism in the city since 1968.

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  Condo Country: Seniors Ditch Florida For The Windy City

  Jeffrey Hill | Sun, May 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: | 4

  As America’s baby boomers grow older and economic woes shift the elderly from suburbs to center city, developers capitalize on the demographics as seen in Chicago, where billions of dollars are being spent to transform the Windy City into the next Boca Raton.

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  A Global Wake Up Call for Middle America

  Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Chicago | Tags: | 1

  Richard Longworth wants you to know two things: First, globalization is happening and it will continue to change the world. Second, if you live in the Midwest, you’d better be very afraid about your region’s chances of competing in an increasingly “flat” world.

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• Headlines

  Chicago Food Deserts, Immigrant Intifadas, Religious Parking, Coney Island, MORE

  Matt Stroud | Fri, Nov 9th, 2007 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: washington dc, affordable housing, food deserts, palestine, immigrant intifada, coney island, parking nightmares | 0

  Madison Alderman Seeks to Curb Parking

  “The west side City Council member wants to cap the amount of parking at new offices, shopping centers and medical centers. Currently, there are few limits on the size of commercial parking lots in the city of Madison, with developers basically free to build as much parking as they feel is financially feasible.” Meanwhile, New Yorkers resort to religion in the quest for a parking space.

  DC Afforable Housing Demolished, But Not Replaced

  “The…

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