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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, internet, democrats, metro, atlanta, 2008, china, florida, mccain, development, cuts, editorial, 1960s, investment, france, commerce, gas, birmingham, maria saporta | 4

  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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  Picking the Perfect City in The Relocating Game

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Jun 24th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Bakersfield | Tags: jeffrey hill, philadelphia, detroit, california, economy, crime, energy, education, transit, nac, research, alaska, city-data.com, forbes, lists, salary, parks, juneau, city data, new city, relocating, moving, bakersfield | 8

  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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• Indianapolis, A.K.A. Las Vegas East

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Jun 11th, 2008 | City: Indianapolis | Tags: jeffrey hill, economy, jobs, casino, employment, indiana live casino, lists, indianapolis, indiana, gaming | 1

  What will a new casino provide the city of Indianapolis with, besides energy waste, an influx of poverty, hookers and an easy corporate state tax bail-out? Six-hundred-seventy jobs, a state of the art NASCAR sports grille and a dream to win it big.

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• Columnists

  Beyond the Backyard Garden: Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Tue, Jun 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, economy, green, sustainability, produce, midwest, corn, urban agriculture, urban garden, tractor | 2

  Thanks to industrialized agriculture, there’s a wide gulf between those who produce food and those who consume it. Too many city-dwellers lack access to nutritious, non-processed foods. Urban agriculture promises to change that. 

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  Philly’s Number One! But Not in a Good Way…

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jun 9th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: new york city, philadelphia, economy, jobs, money, diana lind, budget, incarcarations, number one, prison, prisons | 0

  As Karen Heller writes today on Philly.com — Philadelphia leads the country in percentage of citizens incarcerated. Read on to find out why prisons are a booming industry, how many grams of cocaine you could fit in a sugar packet, and why keeping a prisoner in jail is about the cost of a year’s tuition at a fancy college.

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• The Daily Report

  How Did Cities Vote In The Primaries?

  Jeffrey Hill | Thu, May 29th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, obama, clinton, economy, 2008, mccain, primaries, vote, city vote, urban vote, primary results, urban statistics | 2

  As the grueling 2008 presidential primaries near the homestretch, countless studies claw at statistics to determine who will be helping George W. Bush pack up the U-Haul this January. As urban issues have largely been ignored, so have the urban vote statistics. We’ve compiled a list of how America’s major cities voted in the primaries, plus some interesting trends. 

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• The Daily Report

  Condo Country: Seniors Ditch Florida For The Windy City

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, May 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: jeffrey hill, suburbs, economy, growth, transit, chicago, florida, rodney rothman, retirement, retirees, seniors, senior citizens | 4

  As America’s baby boomers grow older and economic woes shift the elderly from suburbs to center city, developers capitalize on the demographics as seen in Chicago, where billions of dollars are being spent to transform the Windy City into the next Boca Raton.

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  Federalism and Pollution: Enemies of Los Angeles

  Evan Miller | Wed, May 7th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Los Angeles | Tags: environment, transportation, california, economy, energy, green, evan miller, the new argument, oil, video, sports, events, congress, target, average, mandate, epa | 2

  With the recent White House-sanctioned raise in CAFE standards, the battle of federal fuel economy regulations versus state emissions and pollutants standards will clash once again. A fight that killed General Motor’s electric car in the 90s, Los Angeles and cities like it will not let their states loosen environmental standards at the hand of federalism. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. 

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• The Daily Report

  Nominee For Housing and Urban Development Faces Opposition

  Evan Miller | Wed, Apr 23rd, 2008 | Category: Guests | Tags: economy, president, evan miller, the new argument, corruption, nominee, homeownership, lawn | 0

  Faced with the recent resignation of former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson, and a stalling economy, President Bush has been under considerable pressure to put forth a nomination for Jackson’s replacement. Unfortunately, many suspect that the president’s nominee, Steve Preston, is not the man for the job. Evan Miller of The New Argument reports. 

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• The Daily Report

  Sprawl in D.C. is Sputtering to a Stop

  Larry Martin | Mon, Apr 21st, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: transportation, news, suburbs, economy, growth, transit, mortgage, jobs, metro, 2008, washington dc, larry martin, bus, consumers, inflation, sprawl, gas prices, traffic, virginia | 0

  Sprawl in the Metro-DC area has all but stopped.  The deflating housing bubble, price inflation and the economic downturn accomplished (at least temporarily) what slow-growth advocates were achieving at best, very slowly.  However, with a growing economy the DC suburbs are reeling not only from the sub-prime mortgage bust; there are strong indications that the region’s residents are beginning to calculate the cost of transportation to and from work into their housing selection.

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• Columnists

  A Global Wake Up Call for Middle America

  Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Chicago | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, transportation, detroit, economy, infrastructure, chicago, labor, midwest, 1970s, richard longworth | 1

  Richard Longworth wants you to know two things: First, globalization is happening and it will continue to change the world. Second, if you live in the Midwest, you’d better be very afraid about your region’s chances of competing in an increasingly “flat” world. 

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• The Daily Report

  Senate Moves to Solve Housing Crisis

  Evan Miller | Wed, Apr 2nd, 2008 | Category: Guests | Tags: california, economy, republican, foreclosure, evan miller, mortgage, politicians, architects, 2008, gop, produce, target, encourage, thenewargument | 0

  A deal reached Tuesday by negotiations between congressional leaders allows a housing stimulus package to move forward to committee and asks for a finished product to be produced in 24 hours. A bipartisan legislative priority, this stimulus package is intended to bring much needed relief to crumbling neighborhoods across the country. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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  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, interview, legislation, nac, china, gm, ethanol, aiga, corporatations, marc alt, 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

  Release of Clinton documents, Detroit mayorial scandal, Supreme Court discussion on guns, and more

  David Anderson | Wed, Mar 19th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hillary clinton, detroit, obama, david anderson, economy, los angeles, energy, oil, police, lobbyist, corruption, policemen, gun control, std, fed, supreme court, stocks, utah, st. louis | 0

  Notable excerpts of the day on the election, Supreme Court, stocks, energy, corruption, lobbyists, police, Utah’s STDs, and more from all over the country.

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• Headlines

  What you missed, Airwaves S.O.S., Great Googley-Moogley!, Moth Problems, More

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, economy, headlines, cnn, president, atlanta, chinese, public airwaves, pesticide, violence, light brown apple moth, sterilization, microsoft, google, czech republic | 0

  Headlines are back after a brief vacation. Here’s a quick recap of what you missed:

  1.) There is still a presidential election in November and you still have thousands of mind-numbing political ads to be subjected to.
  2.) The news media has nothing better to cover than the alleged sexual three-way of the former N.J. governor.
  3.) J.P. Morgan bought Bear Stearns for two dollars a share showing that companies can now merge together with the help of a script writer and coreographer.
  4.) A tornado ripped through Atlanta.
  5.) The nation was shocked when New York governor Elliot Spitzer was discovered to be using the services of a (gasp) prostitute - crossing the fine line of politics and ethics which sent the media and an entire civilization into a frenzy.
  6.) St. Patrick’s Day gave millions of Americans a reason to drink other than the state of the economy and primetime television.
  7.) There is still violence in Tibet. The Chinese are still killing Tibetans. The Tibetans are rioting. The Dalai Lama may resign as Tibet’s head of state. America and CNN thinks N.J. governor three-way story is more important. 

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• The Daily Report

  24 Hour Cities: Sensible or Superfluous?

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Feb 27th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, economy, crime, tourism, casino, noise complaints, times square, 24 hours, city that never sleeps, lewis mumford, market street | 3

  The concept of 24 hours holds a special place in the popular imagination of Americans.  It evokes a sense of urgency and a sense of romance: late night diners, watching the sunrise, saving the world.  But the phrase is particularly relevant, and particularly overused, when it comes to cities.

  Lewis Mumford wrote in The Culture of Cities that “through its complex orchestration of time and space, no less than through the social division of labor, life in the city takes on a the…

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  Democrats Differ on How to Deal With Mortgage Crisis

  Mike Muller | Wed, Feb 6th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: mike muller, hillary clinton, barack obama, economy, cnn, foreclosures, homeownership, mortgage crisis, the new republic, democratic debate, fraud | 0

  During last weekend’s Democratic debate, when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wasn’t trying to get the two surviving candidates to spit in each other’s faces, a lot of substantive discussion took place. One of the topics mentioned, which we have yet to cover in this column, was the mortgage crisis. And although it wasn’t deliberated at much length, Hillary Clinton said her position on the issue was one of the biggest policy distinctions between her campaign and Barack Obama’s.

  The major differences…

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  Building a 21st Century Economy in America’s Older Industrial Areas: Is growth always positive?

  Hayley Richardson | Sun, Dec 16th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: hayley richardson, economy, growth, is growth always positive, pittsburg, 21st century economy, older industrial areas, american assembly report, harper's magazine | 0

  
  Image/logo courtesy of the American Assembly.

  Recently released: a report from The American Assembly’s November 8th Conference in Hershey, PA entitled, “Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America’s Older Industrial Areas. “ It’s an exploration that fits in nicely with TNAC’s current cover story, which examines how Pittsburgh is dealing with the post industrial bind that many cities have found themselves in: a dwindling population, job loss, and crumbling…

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