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  Denver: America’s Great Urban Canvas, Part II (A Temporary Sidetrack to Decide How I Decide)

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Aug 19th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Denver | Tags: simmons buntin, denver, civano, carolyn dooling | 1

  The second part of Simmons Buntin’s exploration of new, mixed-use projects in Denver sidetracks to explore just how he determines that these projects are, in fact, good development. His decision is still based, in part, on a list of 14 properties of sustainable redevelopment he created for his urban and regional planning graduate school thesis more than a decade ago.

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  Painting the Town Pink

  Kathryn Kondracki | Mon, Aug 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, art, kat kondracki, catherine kolnaski magnet school, trash, garbage, adrian kondratowicz, renee mlynaryk, garbage bags | 0

  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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  L.A. City Council Turns Fast Food Into a Zoning Issue

  Brian Krier | Fri, Aug 15th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, brian krier, obesity, city council, public health, fast food, food zoning, jan perry, food desert | 3

  In a unanimous vote on July 29, the Los Angeles City Council approved a one-year moratorium on the opening of new fast food establishments in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Was the council acting in its constituents’ best interests or did the city extend itself too far into the lives of its residents?

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  Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

  Ray Hainer | Thu, Aug 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: traffic, traffic, freakonomics, freakonomics, army ants, tom vanderbilt, slate.com, slate.com, tom vanderbilt | 2

  Tom Vanderbilt’s breezy new book, Traffic, looks at the science and humanity of driving, and asks why people can’t get along on the road.

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  Would You Like a Coffee with That Bike Repair?

  Kathryn Kondracki | Wed, Aug 13th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Madison | Tags: kat kondracki, machinery row bicycles, wisconsin, bicycling, trek bicycle corporation, trek shop | 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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  D.C. Metro Purple Line: Yes Or No?

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, suburbs, transit, green, construction, metro, 2008, development, maryland, suburb, amtrak, trains, planning, neighborhoods, martin o'malley, purple line | 8

  Connecting D.C. area suburbs with a new Metro line will be complicated. Lawsuits and local politics have delayed the proposed Purple Line connection between Bethesda, Silver springs and New Carrollton.

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  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, clark park, astronomy, 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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  Op-ed Flashback: Adding Accountability To Eminent Domain

  Next American City | Fri, Aug 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: eminent domain, urban renewal, fort trumbull, new london, 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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  MoMA’s Home Delivery: A Disappointment

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: architecture, diana lind, moma, home delivery, prefab | 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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  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, cafe du monde, ariella cohen, frenchman street, next urban summit, cab drivers | 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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  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, cafe du monde, ariella cohen, frenchman street, next urban summit, cab drivers | 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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  A Region on the Brink: the Southern Intermountain West

  Brian Krier | Mon, Aug 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: growth, arizona, brian krier, immigration, brookings institution, megaregions, colorado, southern intermountain west, western cities, report, metropolitan places | 0

  Last week, the Brookings Institution released its latest report from its Blueprint for American Prosperity initiative. The report, entitled “Mountain Megas: America’s Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper,” highlights the Southern Intermountain West – a region developing at a rate presently unparalleled elsewhere in the country, bringing with it all the blessings and burdens of rapid growth.

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  National Number of Homeless Drops Despite Foreclosure Crisis

  Kathryn Kondracki | Thu, Jul 31st, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: homeless, kat kondracki, michael stoops, housing first, hud, 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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  Fictional Urbanism

  Brian Krier | Mon, Jul 28th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Philadelphia | Tags: brian krier, review, satire, fictional urbanism, the city desk, fiction | 0

  The City Desk devotes its pages to a city that does not exist, profiling a citizenry that is entirely fabricated, following a ceaseless cast of characters in an ever-expanding urban narrative that has no basis in fact. Strangely enough, it’s not entirely inaccurate. 

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  Untangling Intersections

  Kathryn Kondracki | Fri, Jul 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: new york city, transportation, brooklyn, kat kondracki, transportation alternatives, wiley norvell, alternative transportation, 21st century street, sustainable, 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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  During the Summer, Opponents of Density Go on Vacation

  Matt Wanamaker | Thu, Jul 24th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: matt wanamaker, jersey shore, nimby, density | 12

  After fighting density at public meetings throughout the year, even NIMBYs need a vacation.  When the weather is right and they feel like escaping their one dwelling-unit-per-acre suburban subdivisions for some rest and relaxation, these neighborhood activists often head for places like the Jersey Shore. Although known for wide beaches, lively boardwalks, and amusement activities, a deeper look reveals that a good deal of the vibrancy in resort towns like those at “The Shore” may be attributed to something that many visitors would claim revulsion to in their hometowns: density. 

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  City Sports Teams Are Selling More Than Tickets

  Josh Leon | Wed, Jul 23rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: josh leon, oklahoma city, seattle supersonics, sports teams | 0

  The quest for taxpayer dollars has become a business within a business. No longer are franchises content to sell tickets, snacks, jerseys and television time. The other side of the professional sports industry is procuring sweetheart deals from local governments.

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  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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  Op-ed: Diversity and the changing face of suburbia

  Next American City | Fri, Jul 18th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: suburbs, edward blakely, diversity, robert lang | 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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  Broken Branches Never Looked So Valuable

  Kathryn Kondracki | Thu, Jul 17th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Hoover | Tags: kat kondracki, ethanol, alabama, alternative fuel, foreign oil, wood, 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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