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  Activists to Turn Parking Spaces into Green Spaces

  Brian Krier | Fri, Aug 22nd, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Los Angeles | Tags: brian krier, parks, public space, green space, parking, land use, guerilla gardening, park(ing) day | 3

  Between all the mammoth S.U.V.s, boxy minivans and compact cars, parallel parking in any city can be a nightmare. Come Sept. 19, drivers in cities around the world vying for curbside parking will also have to compete with potted plants, park benches and some clever environmental activists. 

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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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  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, southern intermountain west, western cities, colorado, 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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  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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  WALL-E issues a stark warning about Earth’s future

  Brian Krier | Tue, Jul 8th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Tags: brian krier, film review, consumption, future planet, waste, disney, consumerism, wall-e, convenience culture, pixar, social commentary | 2

  WALL-E, the latest animated feature from Pixar Studios, presents some unsettling images of Earth 700 years in the future: uninhabited cities built out of infinite fields of garbage; a planet devoid of human civilization; a landscape in which the color green has been removed from the spectrum; and one robot that rules all. It only takes a minute to realize that WALL-E is not your typical kid’s movie.

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  Documentary Asks Aspiring Female Politicians “What’s Your Point?”

  Brian Krier | Wed, Jul 2nd, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, hillary clinton, brian krier, film review, gender, equality, documentary, the white house project, politics, project 2024 | 1

  For the fifth stop in their multi-city promotional tour, New York filmmakers Amy Sewell and Susan Toffler held a screening of their documentary what’s your point, honey? in Philadelphia last Thursday evening, exploring the issue of gender inequality in American politics. 

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  Philadelphia Mayor Answers Questions From The Public On NPR

  Brian Krier | Thu, Jun 19th, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, michael nutter, brian krier, public airwaves, mayor nutter, national public radio, whyy, npr | 0

  Michael Nutter, mayor of Philadelphia, will help local NPR partner station WHYY kick off its new multi-platform broadcast program, It’s Your City tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. The live hour-long program offers Delaware Valley residents the opportunity engage the new mayor.

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• No Signs of Conflict at Boise’s Historic Reserve Street Armory

  Brian Krier | Mon, Jun 16th, 2008 | City: Boise | Tags: brian krier, boise, idaho, community organization, adaptive reuse, boise east end, historical preservation, sustainable development, wpa | 3

  Built by the WPA in 1937, the Reserve Street Armory sits dilapidated and abandoned in a pocket of Boise’s East End neighborhood. Although the city originally slated the building for auction this fall, a community group’s concentrated effort to preserve the Armory has created a prime opportunity for cooperation between residents, developers and city hall – and all stand to benefit.

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  Elusive Street Art Unites Urban Dwellers Online

  Brian Krier | Fri, Jun 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: blogging, internet, art, brian krier, interaction, urban art, banksy, artists, streetsy, street art, gothamist, jake dobkin | 0

  To some, the term “street art” is merely a glorification of vandalism, a common hallmark of urban blight. But for many others, street art is a legitimate form of expression and a vital component of the urban experience. Artists and enthusiasts share a common ground: the Internet, where street art takes on its most unifying and democratizing form.

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