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Next American City’s Jeffrey Hill is leaving Philadelphia, but not before a tiring search for a new city that, in a matter of a few weeks, turned him into a stockpile of statistics on the nuances of America. Hill reveals some hints and secrets on playing the relocation game.

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The average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000.  It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children.  And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment?  Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface.

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Mortgage defaults force Denver exodus, protestors interrupt Los Angeles mayor at Skid Row announcement, a silent killer stalks world of urban farming, former HUD secretary Alphonso Jackson forgets to pack painted portrait on his way out and a developer’s mixed-use project pays homage to Savannah’s roots. This and more in today’s headlines.

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First off, our posts will be a little sparser over the next few days (read: we won’t post anything) while we finish last minute revisions of our new Website (launching quite soon). Stay tuned.

Now, headlines:

Historic Hot House

“If you thought landmarking a diner that was once a Denny’s is pushing the preservation envelope, how about putting a nuclear reactor building on the National Historic Register? Before you scoff, learn just a bit about a remarkable, little-known modern…

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Knocking Down High Rises Stops Crime! Or not.

“OK, so, you take away two-thirds of the people of Richard Allen (and in fact, probably take away more than 2/3rds of the original residents, given many projects become mixed income), and you lose.... 2/3rds of the crime. Not to be a jerk, but doesn’t that sort of imply that, at the end of the day, as absolutely crappy and terrible as these huge projects were, crime might not have been caused by architecture, but instead by the fact that…

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Election Coverage: Create an attractive place for immigrants, lose federal dollars?

Somebody didn’t read Pooja Shah’s article.  “Republican Fred Thompson said Tuesday the government should yank federal dollars from cities and states that don’t report illegal immigrants.

In his first major policy proposal, Thompson challenged presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney by criticizing ``sanctuary cities’’ where city workers are barred from reporting suspected illegal immigrants…

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