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• Columnists

  Consensus, but Progress?

  Josh Leon | Thu, Jul 2nd, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Detroit | Tags: detroit, josh leon, jane jacobs, richard florida, migration, world bank, shanghai, worldwatch, reshaping economic geography, creative class, world expo, bob dylan, talking heads, the atlantic | 2

  Josh Leon on whether the new standards of planning truly represent progress—or leave entire communities in the dust.

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• The Daily Report

  Rudy Bruner Awards: The Community Chalkboard

  Jori Lewis | Thu, Jul 2nd, 2009 | Category: Interviews | Tags: city hall, rudy bruner, story line, community chalkboard, first amendment, charlottesville, bridge progressive arts initiative, silver medal, pete o'shea, piedmont council on the arts | 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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• The Daily Report

  Rudy Bruner Awards, Continued: St. Joseph Rebuild Center

  Jori Lewis | Tue, Jun 30th, 2009 | Category: Interviews | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, homeless, jori lewis, gravier street, st. joseph rebuild center, dan pitera, 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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• Columnists

  Sham Retirements

  Andrew Thompson | Mon, Jun 29th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: michael nutter, whyy, andrew thompson, metronomics, deferred retirement option program, poynter, al tompkins, sham retirements, retirement | 0

  Andrew Thompson on cities and states that are reconsidering an all-too-common loophole that allows workers to receive a pension and a salary at the same time.

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• Columnists

  Beyond the Gas Tax: Future Funding for Transit Options

  Justin Glick | Fri, Jun 26th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | Tags: justin glick, high speed rail, omnibus, jim oberstar, susan fleming, government accountability office, barbara boxer, highway trust fund, house | 0

  Transportation funding woes are the theme of the week as Washington tries to get our infrastructure investment back on track.

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• The Daily Report

  An Interview: Rudy Bruner Award Winner Inner-City Arts

  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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• Web Exclusives

  From ER Doctor to Air Pollution Activist: An Interview with Dr. John G. Miller

  Hamida Kinge | Thu, Jun 25th, 2009 | Category: Interviews | City: Los Angeles | Tags: senate, sierra club, california air resources board, dr. john g. miller, clean truck program, cancer., asthma, international long shore workers union, jessie marquez, bunker fuel, diesel soot, maersk, clean air action plan, marine vessel emissions reduction act, port of los angeles, asbestos, coalition for a safe environment, sulfur oxide, diesel death zone, vincent thomas bridge, california environmental quality act, respiratory illnesses, cargo ships, particle pollution, environmental impact reports, mesothelioma, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, south coast air basin, south coast air quality management district, birth defects, port community advisory committee, wilmington, ca., newport beach, | 2

  In a companion piece to her Issue 23 feature article, “Air Apparent,” which looks at how America’s cities are coping with the persistent problem of air pollution, Hamida Kinge interviews a doctor at the front lines of the pollution-related health crisis.

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• NAC News

  LIVE STREAMING: URBANEXUS Cincinnati!

  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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• Columnists

  Congressional Transportation Bill Announced

  Ben Adler | Wed, Jun 24th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: obama, transportation, ben adler, ray lahood, oberstar, congressional transportation bill | 0

  House Transportation Committee Chair Oberstar puts out his plan for Surface Transit Re-authorization. Is it as transformative as promised?

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• The Daily Report

  Maglev vs. DesertXpress: The Future of Rail in the Southwest

  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, victorville, federal | 1

  A look at the competing proposals for a rail link between Southern California and Las Vegas.

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• Columnists

  A Simple Hat and a Complicated Story: The Risk of Unreliable Storytelling in a Recovering City

  Ariella Cohen | Mon, Jun 22nd, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, new york times, national public radio, recession, lower ninth ward, marketplace, vacancy, urban reinvestment, eastern new orleans, jeff schwartz, kai ryssdal, dan baum, broad street | 4

  Dan Baum’s blog post on the New York Times website on Friday illustrates the problems of narrating a city from a distance.

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• The Daily Report

  State of the Air: Issue 23 Preview

  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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• The Daily Report

  Frank Gehry’s Non-Bilbao Effect in New Orleans

  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, ommeed sathe, hal brown, urbanbuild, robert tannen, new orleans redevelopment authority, tulane school of architecture, fortune development, bilbao effect | 1

  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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• Urban Nation

  Required Reading

  Ben Adler | Thu, Jun 18th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: infrastructure, ben adler, paris, high speed rail, politico, segregation, james surowiecki, new york times magazine, gas tax, raymond lahood | 2

  What to take to the beach? Other than Next American City, a round up of magazine articles from the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and others. The hot topics are high speed rail, homelessness, gas taxes and of course, what Obama is going to do to improve U.S. cities.

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• The Daily Report

  This Week: Issue 23 Launch Party in Philadelphia!

  Pooja Shah | Mon, Jun 15th, 2009 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, issue launch party, issue 23, royal theater, hidden, south street | 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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• The Daily Report

  The Death Knell of the MegaMall?

  Danielle Zimmerman | Fri, Jun 12th, 2009 | Category: Report | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, portland, northern liberties, commarts, sunset magazine, chapter 11, tower investments, crossroads city, phillies, international council on shopping centers, malls, allison arieff, piazza at schmidt’s, schmidt’s brewery | 1

  Next American City’s Danielle Zimmerman offers her thoughts on a new-concept “mall” in Philadelphia.

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• Columnists

  Green Vendors Take NYC

  Jori Lewis | Thu, Jun 11th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, brooklyn, bloomberg, bangladesh, street vendors, nyc green cart, ghana, street vendor project, crown fried chicken, popeye's | 0

  NAC Urban Leaders fellow Jori Lewis talks about the Green Carts popping up in New York City—and encourages her neighbors to take advantage of them.

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• The Daily Report

  My Space

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

  Slumdog Megadisaster

  Hamida Kinge | Tue, Jun 9th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | Tags: china, haiti, hurricane ike, caribbean, united nations, india, andrew maskrey, gonaives, deforestation, bogota, shantytowns, megadisasters, cyclone nargis, bahrain, myanmar, hurricane jeanne, poverty, hurricane hanna | 0

  In her column, The Tipping Point, Hamida Kinge looks at a new United Nations report that links urban poverty, climate change and migration to cities from rural areas to “megadisasters.”

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• The Daily Report

  Affordable Housing Goes Green

  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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