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  Round 4: Predictions for 2009

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jan 5th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Detroit | Tags: philadelphia, detroit, new york, mayor nutter, 2009, predictions, recession | 1

  I’ve had the benefit of reading a few other people’s predictions for 2009 and now weigh in with my own ideas. 

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  Round 3: Predictions for 2009

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jan 5th, 2009 | Category: Guests | City: New York | Tags: new york city, barack obama, 2009, predictions, clifford pearson, robert ivy, architectural record | 0

  Architectural Record‘s editor in chief, Robert Ivy, and deputy editor, Clifford Pearson, offer their answers to the four pressing questions for the new year.

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  Round 2: Predictions for 2009

  Ben Adler | Fri, Jan 2nd, 2009 | Category: Commentary | City: Detroit | Tags: barack obama, detroit, las vegas, ben adler, 2009, predictions, washington, d.c. | 1

  Ben Adler takes a stab at Next American City’s all-important four questions for the New Year.

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  Cities Break Out the Piggy Bank

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

  Diana Lind | Wed, Dec 31st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Detroit | Tags: detroit, carol coletta, phoenix, ceos for cities, vacancies | 2

  Next American City sent out a survey with four simple questions in it —Carol Coletta, President and CEO of CEOs for Cities gives her predictions of where cities will be in 2009. Tomorrow, Ben Adler takes a stab at the questions. Stay tuned for more predictions!

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  New York vs. Los Angeles, on Film

  Josh Leon | Mon, Dec 29th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, new york, josh leon, gloria swanson, sunset boulevard, jack lemmon, turner classic movies, double indemnity, the apartment, hollywood | 1

  Turner Classic Movies is televising a festival that pits these two famed cities against each other. The series will show how these two quintessential cities have captured the popular imagination throughout five decades of film.

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• Columnists

  Whither South Florida?

  Ben Adler | Sun, Dec 28th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: foreclosure, new york, 1970s, christmas, ben adler, yiddish, ft. lauderdale, plantation, sun belt, grandmothers, lauderdale west | 2

  A holiday visit to my grandmother’s retirement community begs the question: What will happen to those 1970’s developments?

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  When City Papers Fold, What Happens to the City?

  Emily Kostic | Mon, Dec 22nd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: | 2

  City papers have a unique ability to draw together people with diverse backgrounds, while explaining a shared history of a city. Now with the onset of a financial crisis, city papers that were already suffering lower revenues are closing. But where does that leave urbanites?

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  The Ellis Island Economy

  Hamida Kinge | Sun, Dec 21st, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, new york, hamida kinge, fatimah muhammad, center for an urban future, jonathan bowles, maria de lourdes sobrino, sewell chan, lulu's desserts, immigrants | 1

  Immigrants fuel growth in cities and are nearly 30 percent more like to start businesses than native-born Americans. A recent conference on immigrants’ roles in cities sparked debate over how cities can foster immigrant businesses.

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  A New Stimulus Request from Cities

  Nick Lalla | Thu, Dec 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: economics, rust belt, mayor nutter, nancy pelosi, henry paulson, stimulus, bail out, retrofitting, financial crisis, john boehner, harry reid, green economics, restoring prosperity | 1

  Several attempts to include cities as a category worthy of consideration for the new breed of government financial bailout packages have been made recently. Now, a new letter from a non-profit urban revitalization group is making the rounds, collecting signers and support before trying its hand at asking for state money for ailing urban centers.

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• Columnists

  LaWho?

  Ben Adler | Thu, Dec 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: barack obama, transportation, transit, chicago, washington d.c., trains, bicycling, ben adler, r. t. rybak, secretary of transportation, lahood | 2

  It has been widely reported that on Friday Obama will name Rep. Ray LaHood, a retiring Republican from Illinois, as his Transportation Secretary. This was truly unexpected.

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  “Move to a small city,” Says Science

  Nick Lalla | Wed, Dec 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: nick lalla, list-icle, cnn.com, livability, washington, n.j., norman, ok, plymouth, mn, fisher, in | 2

  Another questionable list-icle of American city rankings has popped up on CNN.com. This one seeks to rank American cities in terms of livabilty and seems a little...lifeless.

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  Hipster Runoff Takes on Urban Design, Wins

  Nick Lalla | Tue, Dec 16th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: authenticity, williamsburg, millennials, millennials, post-irony, post-irony, blogosphere, space, blogosphere, space, meaning, hipster runoff, urban theory jargon, hipster runoff, urban theory jargon, meaning, alts, alts | 2

  I’m shocked by every day that goes by without some pseudo-academic hipster art-star type taking the urban theory world’s reins and making the whole effort look a little sexier. Sometimes that shock turns into worry that Next American City is just a placeholder to be left in a cooler, more culture-savvy kid’s dust. Urban thought is hot and waiting patiently for someone to capitalize on it. A new post on Gen-Y blog bible Hipster Runoff indicates the process may have begun.

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  Mumbai: When Globalization’s Magnets Become Targets

  Josh Leon | Mon, Dec 15th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: nicolai ouroussoff, national intelligence council, terrorism, global trends 2025, foreign policy, urbanization, globalization, mumbai | 0

  What does terrorism mean for a city like Mumbai? The city won’t stop growing just because some people don’t like it. 

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  Obama Announces HUD Secretary

  Ben Adler | Sun, Dec 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: barack obama, janette sadik-khan, hud, adolfo carrion, shaun donovan, clinton administration, joel klein | 0

  President-Elect Obama chooses New Yorkers to run HUD and the new office of urban policy.

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  Short Film Contest on One of Our Favorite Topics: Place

  Diana Lind | Thu, Dec 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: austin, cities in film, baudrillard, smibe, short film, woody allen, richard linklater, film contest | 0

  In his seminal book, America, Baudrillard suggests that to understand the American city: “you should begin with the screen and move outwards towards the city.” The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment — or SMIBE — has taken that quote literally. Its latest endeavor is a first annual contest for short films. This year’s theme is “Story about a Place.” More information after the jump.
  

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  Mass Transit Ridership on the Rise

  Ben Adler | Wed, Dec 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: gas prices, mass transit, washington post, ben adler, american public transportation association, washington, d.c. | 0

  When gas was above $4 a gallon, most cities reported a rise in mass-transit ridership. Now, with gas at half the prices seen earlier this year, Americans are still taking more trips on mass transit. 

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  A NYC Neighborhood Gets a Transportation Makeover

  Justin Glick | Mon, Dec 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york, transportation alternatives, justin glick, upper west side, blueprint | 0

  With help from the NYC Streets Renaissance campaign, residents of New York’s Upper West Side have banded together to create a blueprint for redeveloping their roads. The plan represents a real chance to permanently shift street usage from automobiles to people, while employing an approach uniquely suited to deal with the challenges presented by the over-crowded city.

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  Introducing a New Transportation Secretary

  Diana Lind | Fri, Dec 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Minneapolis | Tags: barack obama, diana lind, minneapolis, r. t. rybak, mayor, transportation secretary, wired magazine | 7

  Does the name R.T. Rybak ring a bell? If you’re not from Minneapolis, perhaps not. The rumor is he deserves to be Obama’s new secretary of transportation. Maybe we’ll add Rybak to our perfect-for-a-moneyless-holiday wish list: people we hope Obama will appoint.

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  Cutting Crime Pays — But At What Cost?

  Diana Lind | Thu, Dec 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: philadelphia, los angeles, diana lind, budget cuts, homicide rate, auto theft, william bratton, 2009 | 0

  A recent Wall Street Journal article suggests that cities should do anything they can to avoid cutting crime-reduction budgets during these lean times.

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