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  Economic Success Of Megaregions Depends On Infrastructure

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Jul 9th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Atlanta | Tags: jeffrey hill, transportation, news, obama, california, economy, growth, infrastructure, president, jobs, democrats, atlanta, metro, internet, china, 2008, florida, mccain, development, editorial, cuts, 1960s, investment, commerce, france, gas, birmingham, maria saporta | 5

  Maria Saporta’s editorial on economic global competitiveness and megaregions hones in on the most important issue for the future of southeastern U.S. cities - mobility. However, the rest of the world isn’t waiting for experts from the Piedmont-Atlantic megaregion to unite and find direction.

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• The Daily Report

  Philadelphia’s Chinatown Braces For the Impact of Rice Shortages

  Jennifer Kim | Fri, May 16th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, china, tourism, gas prices, restaurants, rice, tourist, rice shortage, jennifer kim, imports, asian food, chinatown | 0

  What happens to a neighborhood when its most important commodity is in short supply? The shortage of rice has already taken its toll on Philadelphia’s Chinatown. Jennifer Kim reports.

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• Headlines

  Hospitals’ suburban push, fundamentalist children, blue-collar hybrids, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: transportation, headlines, downtown, boston, construction, china, oil, police, taxpayers, consumers, chinese, new york times, olympics, hybrids, sect | 0

  Hospitals’ stir fears, sect youths conditioned to deceive outsiders, Olympic torch relay switches route and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  More Olympic news, Stories from D.C., Florida HUD goes Local, Golf Sprawl, MORE

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, building, headlines, downtown, cnn, chicago, china, police, paris, protests, sprawl, olympics, suburb, bob king, upenn, golf, washington post, university of penn | 0

  Tibetan protesters continue their focus on China’s olympic march, UPenn students win student urban design competition, Florida HUD returns to local control, Hispanics contribute $60 billion to the telecommunications industry ... this and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  Philly Presidential Debate, Chinese Super-Cities, Carl Rowe Interview, Alphono Jackon Blues, MORE

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Mar 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, news, building, obama, clinton, energy, green, sustainability, democrats, atlanta, architects, china, art, economics, michael nutter, carl rowe, alphonso jackson, chinese, music, austin | 0

  Philadelphia Daily News reports: “Mayor (Michael) Nutter said yesterday that he wants to get presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Philadelphia for a public discussion of urban issues before the April 22 Democratic primary ... Nutter said that issues affecting American cities haven’t gotten enough attention in the campaign. ‘Health care is very important,’ Nutter said. ‘The war is very, very important. But if you live at 56th and Master, you’re not as focused on what al Qaeda is doing.” MORE

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• Web Exclusives

  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, economy, energy, green, legislation, china, nac, ethanol, gm, marc alt, aiga, 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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• Headlines

  HUD lifeline, GM loses millions, Hillary: “you are not a jedi, yet.” more.

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Feb 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, jeffrey hill, hillary clinton, barack obama, china, gm, medha patkar, denmark, edmonton, mark rosentraub, project lifeline, co-evolution | 0

  Government “lifeline” for deliquent mortgages.

  The Bush administration’s hope to counter falling house prices and rising mortgage defaults is the “Hope Alliance,” which is planning to give homeowners more breathing room to pay bills. Houston Chronicle reports: “Against a backdrop of surging defaults and administration officials’ prodding of the mortgage industry, the plan will allow seriously overdue homeowners to suspend foreclosures for 30 days while lenders try to work out more…

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• The Daily Report

  Chinatown Struggles To Exist In Italy

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Jan 28th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, china, chinese, italy, antonella ceccagno, international herald tribune, vigilante, bbc news, racial riot, overcrowded ethnic ghettos | 1

  The history of Chinese migration isn’t nearly as old as the culture itself. Free exploration of the world has only been available since the 1860 Treaty of Peking opened China’s borders. In the 148 years since, Chinese migrants have seen the world - from Asia to the West Coast of the United States and beyond. Their settlements in urban environments are burrowed for survival and self-sufficient based on trade goods. By staying so close together, the Chinese are able to establish their own…

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• The Daily Report

  A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China

  Matt Stroud | Thu, Dec 13th, 2007 | Category: Reviews | Tags: china, migration, peasants, chinese immigrants, william j. evitts, reviews, contemporary china | 0

  Just Enough for the City: the Great Chinese Migration
  By William J. Evitts

  Review: A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China. Van Luyn, Floris-Jan, translated from the Dutch by Jeannette K. Ringold (New York: The New Press, 2007).

  A Floating City of Peasants begins and ends with numbers—the astonishing (and astonishingly unremarked) statistical outpouring of peasants leaving the Chinese countryside. The U.N. calculated that 200 million Chinese will…

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