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  Next American City in Milwaukee: Public Transportation Symposium

  Benjamin Gilbert | Thu, Oct 23rd, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Milwaukee | Tags: | 0

  During Next American City’s recent trip to Milwaukee, Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind moderated a symposium on public transportation. We present the full video here, exclusively on the Next American City website

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  URBANEXUS Los Angeles --full recap!

  Michelle Kuly | Thu, Oct 23rd, 2008 | Tags: architecture, los angeles, diana lind, next american city, planetizen, los angeles times, mark vallianatos, urbanexus, sam lubell, chris hawthorne, salon, food politics, built environment, lecture, architect's newspaper, parmlab, a+d museum | 0

  Next American City kicked-off our URBANEXUS series on Oct. 29 & Oct. 31 in Los Angeles. Find a slideshow of the event plus full audio of Mark Vallianatos’ speech right here on AmericanCity.org!

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  Filmmakers Tia Lessin & Carl Deal “Trouble the Water”

  Hamida Kinge | Thu, Oct 2nd, 2008 | Category: Interviews | City: New Orleans | Tags: | 0

  Next American City interviews Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about their groundbreaking film Trouble the Water, currently playing in theaters.

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  A Victory for Affordable Housing in N.J.

  Adam Gordon | Mon, Jul 21st, 2008 | Category: Guests | Tags: | 0

  “Governor Jon S. Corzine, welcome to our home,” read a banner in front of 20 fidgeting, mainly African-American, children, waiting for the Governor to arrive on a sweltering July day in southern New Jersey.  New Jersey was about to make history again, by enacting into law what urban expert David Rusk called “the most important housing reform legislation enacted in the nation in the past two decades.”

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  NAC Exclusive Interview With Domenic Vitiello

  Scott Gabriel Knowles | Tue, May 20th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, building, suburbs, growth, scott gabriel knowles, pennsylvania, domenic vitiello, urban history, urban historian | 0

  Everyone knows that deindustrialization in American cities started with the end of WWII and the decentralization of American manufacturing that followed it, right? A recent article in the Journal of Urban History by University of Pennsylvania professor Domenic Vitiello takes this chronology to task. 

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  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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  NAC exclusive interview: Marc Alt, founding co-chair of the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Mar 21st, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, building, green, economy, energy, china, nac, legislation, ethanol, gm, aiga, marc alt, corporatations, greenwashing, philadelphia society of ethics | 0

  Before he gave a lecture on green design at the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) center in Philadelphia, Marc Alt, the center’s co-founder, sat down for an interview with Jeffrey Hill of Next American City. In their conversation, Alt spoke about the new, trendy environmental focus of many American businesses. Read on to find out why Alt gave an unlikely corporation—Wal-Mart—a green thumbs up.

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