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Jori Lewis | Thu, Jul 2nd, 2009 | Category: Interviews | Tags: city hall, rudy bruner, pete o'shea, community chalkboard, first amendment, story line, charlottesville, bridge progressive arts initiative, piedmont council on the arts, silver medal | 0
Jori Lewis talks to Pete O’Shea, the designer of the Community Chalkboard in Charlottesville, Va., which has just won a silver medal in the Rudy Bruner Awards.
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Jori Lewis | Tue, Jun 30th, 2009 | Category: Interviews | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, homeless, jori lewis, gravier street, dan pitera, st. joseph rebuild center, don thompson, detroit design collaborative, rudy bruner awards, historic district landmark commission | 0
Jori Lewis interviews Don Thompson and Dan Pitera, two of the people behind the Rudy Bruner Award Silver Medal winner St. Joseph Rebuild Center in New Orleans.
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Jori Lewis | Fri, Jun 26th, 2009 | Category: Interviews | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, skid row, jori lewis, cynthia harnisch, culture, inner-city arts, rudy bruner, urban excellence, arts, interview | 0
Jori Lewis interviews Cynthia Harnisch, CEO of Inner-City Arts, an arts education center in Los Angeles. Inner-City Arts has just won the Rudy Bruner Awards’ Gold Medal for Urban Excellence.
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Next American City | Thu, Jun 25th, 2009 | Category: Events | City: NAC News | Tags: | 0
Follow this link to RSVP for tonight’s events, centered on “creating the innovative city,” or to participate from afar!
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Katherine Mella | Tue, Jun 23rd, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Las Vegas | Tags: las vegas, amtrak, pittsburgh, southern california, maglev, stimulus, high-speed rail, anaheim, american magline group, desertxpress, magnetic levitation, mayor william briare, neil cummings, desert wind, federal, victorville | 1
A look at the competing proposals for a rail link between Southern California and Las Vegas.
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Hamida Kinge | Sun, Jun 21st, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Los Angeles | Tags: | 3
In a companion article to her Issue 23 feature, “Air Apparent,” Hamida Kinge shares the results of the latest “State of the Air” report, which reminds Americans that air pollution is anything but a passé concern.
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Ariella Cohen | Thu, Jun 18th, 2009 | Category: Report | City: New Orleans | Tags: architecture, new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, historic preservation, frank gehry, brad pitt, make it right, hal brown, ommeed sathe, urbanbuild, robert tannen, tulane school of architecture, fortune development, new orleans redevelopment authority, bilbao effect | 2
Three years after celebrity architects seized on the so-called tabula rasa of post-Katrina New Orleans, Frank Gehry is putting in his own surprisingly modest two-cents with a design for a contemporary take on the city’s traditional shotgun house.
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Pooja Shah | Mon, Jun 15th, 2009 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, issue launch party, issue 23, royal theater, south street, hidden | 0
Join Next American City and Hidden City Philadelphia for our Issue 23 Launch Party to be held at Philadelphia’s own Royal Theater on Wednesday, June 17!
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Danielle Zimmerman | Fri, Jun 12th, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, portland, northern liberties, commarts, sunset magazine, tower investments, chapter 11, malls, crossroads city, phillies, international council on shopping centers, allison arieff, schmidt’s brewery, piazza at schmidt’s | 1
Next American City’s Danielle Zimmerman offers her thoughts on a new-concept “mall” in Philadelphia.
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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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Katherine Mella | Sun, Jun 7th, 2009 | Category: Report | City: New York | Tags: | 2
In a neighborhood better known for its poverty and blight, a new apartment building in the South Bronx is garnering attention not only for its affordability, tasteful design, and sculpture garden, but also for its green features and sustainable elements.
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Jori Lewis | Tue, Jun 2nd, 2009 | Category: Report | City: New York | Tags: new york city, queens, whole foods, jori lewis, eric gioia, costco, supplemental nutritional assistance program, jim sinegal, ssi, sunset park, food stamps, sam’s club | 0
Last Wednesday the discount wholesaler Costco ended its stand-off with New York City community leaders by agreeing to accept food stamps at two of its city stores.
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Hamida Kinge | Thu, May 28th, 2009 | Category: Reviews | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, hamida kinge, jan perry, the garden documentary, dan stormer, annenberg foundation, zach de la rocha, ralph horowitz, concerned citizens of south central, rage against the machine, scott hamilton kennedy, juanita tate, community gardens | 1
Hamida Kinge reviews The Garden, a film about a vast community garden in Los Angeles that fell victim to a land ownership squabble.
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Next American City | Wed, May 27th, 2009 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: global creative economy convergence summit, innovation philadelphia, conference | 2
Innovation Philadelphia is seeking presentation proposals for the second Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit.
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Ben Adler | Tue, May 26th, 2009 | Category: Report | Tags: ben adler, transportation secretary, urban nation, ray lahood, austin bridge and road, press club | 0
Ray LaHood takes the right positions, even if he does not like to advertise it.
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Next American City | Tue, May 19th, 2009 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: | 0
Find out all the details about our URBANEXUS lecture and salon this Thursday in Washington, D.C.
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Danielle Zimmerman | Fri, May 15th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: foreclosures, buffalo, abandoned property, vacant homes, danielle zimmerman, new york magazine, buffalo central terminal, erie canal, associated press, adam sternbergh | 0
Buffalo is now home to “America’s emptiest neighborhood.” It seems that after decades of decline, Buffalo has recently hit an all-time low. However, there are many indications that Buffalo is on the rise. Locals have newfound hope. Positive media coverage describes Buffalo as a “frontier.” City officials don’t seem to be buying it. Who’s going to give the upstate N.Y. city a chance?
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Diana Lind | Thu, May 14th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, diana lind, urban:sos, edaw, economic collapse, social disintegration, effects of global warming, environmental pollution, graduate students, ecological degradation, vacant properties, impacts of natural disaster | 0
EDAW is hosting a fantastic contest for students called Urban:SOS (must be registered by tomorrow, May 15). They say: Find an urban site in disrepair. Fix it. I’m no longer a student, but if I were, I have a few ideas of what I’d fix.
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Ben Adler | Tue, May 12th, 2009 | Category: Report | Tags: new york city, mass transit, pennsylvania, connecticut, portland, department of transportation, jim oberstar, transportation for america, ed rendell, house transportation committee, tappan zee bridge, astrid glynn, hudson river valley, surface transit bill, capitol hill monday, rayburn house of representatives | 0
Transportation for America publicly announces, and the House Transportation Committee chairman accidentally leaks, plans for the Surface Transit Bill.
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Julia Ramey | Thu, May 7th, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Boston | Tags: los angeles, boston, cleveland, american public transit association, aaa, washington, d.c. | 3
So says the latest report from the American Public Transit Association, which has calculated how much city residents can save this year by switching from cars to public transit.
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