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  Report from the Summit on American Prosperity

  Larry Martin | Wed, Jun 25th, 2008 | Category: Events | Tags: news, transportation, building, larry martin, economics, events, website, brookings, summit, metropolitan policy program, summit on american prosperity | 0

  Over 900 attendees from 32 states attended the Summit for American Prosperity where policies were discussed and a network of cities formed. The agenda was the centrality of American cities as engines for economic prosperity.

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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, obama, building, clinton, energy, green, sustainability, atlanta, china, architects, democrats, 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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• The Daily Report

  Sparking Creativity - A Recap of Next American City’s New Orleans Symposium

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Mar 17th, 2008 | Category: Events | Tags: jeffrey hill, suburbs, nac, katrina, video, economics, nola yurp, blake haney, andrea floyd, timolynn sams, janet speyrey | 2

  Sparking Creativity was moderated by Nathan Rothstein of NOLA YURP as well as NAC contributing writer and editor Brentin Mock. The panel consisted of Dirty Coast T-Shirt company creative director Blake Haney, Neighborhood Partnership Network director Timolynn Sams, Consciously Rebuilding co-founder Andrea Floyd, and Dr. Janet Speyrer, associate dean for research and economics at the University of New Orleans.

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• Columnists

  Who Can Afford to Live in a “Sustainable” Development?

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Dec 11th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: environment, simmons buntin, economics, tuscon, loreto bay, affordable sustainability, sustainable living | 1

  A few weeks back I traveled to Loreto, Baja California Sur, the quaint home of Baja’s first mission.  There I visited the Villages of Loreto Bay, eleven miles south of the town.  Loreto Bay is a mixed-use, new urbanist development that, at buildout, will house some 6,000 homes, plus commercial areas, a golf course, community gathering areas, and more.  So far, about 400 homes are complete, and Peter Clark, the development’s technical director of sustainability, speaks highly of the…

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