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  Crown of Thorns

  Jeremy Rosenberg | Mon, Jul 14th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Los Angeles | Tags: environment, building, los angeles, downtown, architecture, dubai, jeremy rosenberg, los angeles city hall | 1

  The tops of L.A.’s buildings are bland as a smogless sunset. But at least this design saves lives — right?

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  Philadelphia’s Ongoing Self-Perception Problem

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jun 23rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: environment, philadelphia, building, brooklyn, pennpraxis, mayor nutter, harris steinberg, commerce, design montreal | 9

  Last week Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter presented a new plan for reviving Philadelphia’s waterfront to packed audience at the Museum of Natural History. I didn’t make it to the event, but have been eagerly awaiting some of the response. As per usual, Philadelphians are pretty down on their city. But now they’re picking on the block where I work (seen at right in earlier days)…

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• New Sustainable Development Rolls Doubles

  Kathryn Kondracki | Thu, Jun 5th, 2008 | City: Boston | Tags: environment, energy, boston, kat kondracki, development, olmsted green, housing development, lena, monopoly, housing | 1

  According to the developer of Lena Park, Boston’s new Olmstead Green will consist of 153 affordable housing units and live up to its name by offering environment-friendly equipment and eco-savvy designs.

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• NAC News

  Next American City Issue 19 Preview!

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, May 28th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, philadelphia, building, detroit, homeless, brooklyn, katrina, research, taxpayers, next american city, events, schools, issue 19, issue preview, next issue, summer issue | 0

  Our new issue hits shelves on June 1 - just a few days away! Issue 19, “The New School,” features stories on New Oreleans’ Charity Hospital, Co-op schools in Brooklyn, Demolition in Detroit, Homelessness in L.A., Escalators in Philadelphia and much more! Also, interviews with Wendy Walters, Jake Dobkin and David Wilson. Here’s a little preview of what’s to come!

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• The Daily Report

  Results of Seattle’s Test of Automatic Toilets Underwhelming

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: environment, seattle, evan miller, homeless, the new argument, money, alley, taxpayers, paris, luxury, crack, toilet, restaurants, parks | 0

  A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane? The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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  The Wildflower Wars

  Simmons Buntin | Thu, May 15th, 2008 | City: Denver | Tags: environment, tucson, simmons buntin, denver, new urbanism, civano, hoa, sense of place, yard, master-planned communities, flowers, nature in the city, landscaping | 1

  A dazzling wildflower season spells trouble for the master-planned communities that spread like invasive weeds along the edges of urban areas across the West.  How are the wildflower wars being waged, and why is it important to have natural yards in cities, anyway?

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• The Daily Report

  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, average, target, 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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• Columnists

  Solving Civic Problems in a Post-Fact Society

  Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 24th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, environment, milwaukee, infrastructure, taxpayers, pollution, sewerage, talk radio | 8

  In an age when facts don’t matter, how do cities build the consensus to make big plans? In a public sphere heavily influenced by talk radio and other media outlets, such as local blogs, where there is no clear line between fact and opinion, where outright falsehoods are presented as legitimate opinions, the billons of dollars in investment in Milwaukee’s Deep Tunnel are now deemed a massive waste. 

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• The Daily Report

  The Green List - Milk, Eggs, Bread, Fluorescent bulbs, Hybrid Cars…

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Apr 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, suburbs, energy, green, sustainability, money, politicians, produce, taxpayers, consumers, connecticut, going green, green shopping, leed | 1

  Shopping green is good for businesses, political groups, builders, car companies, and oh, the environment. Knocking on doors and pressuring citizens to buy compact fluorescent bulbs and other marked products does not show concern or respect for our environment. It implies that people who cannot afford consumer goods are bad for the planet.

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• The Daily Report

  “Glocalization,” Neighborhoods as Brands

  Brendan Crain | Tue, Apr 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: environment, downtown, growth, crime, seattle, gentrification, boston, internet, denver, manhattan, advertising, brendan crain | 1

  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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• Headlines

  Martin Luther King Remembered, Public-Housing Not Remembered, New Orleans Economic Immunity, More

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Apr 4th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: environment, hillary clinton, news, obama, barack obama, headlines, clinton, foreclosure, infrastructure, green, architecture, homeless, mortgage, boston, architects, katrina, foreclosures, beijing, japan, janet speyrer, oakland, bronx, new york mets, dr. janet speyrer, kyoto, new york yankees, boston red sox, martin luther king jr. | 0

  America evaluates change since Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, democratic presidential candidates still ignoring key city issues, economist Janet Speyrer offers insight on how recession may or may not impact New Orleans, Kyoto passes new accord and more in today’s headlines.

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• Headlines

  City graduation rates, Harlem’s green building, Ralph Rapson dies, Next American City vs. Big Oil?

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Apr 1st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, news, building, detroit, energy, green, architecture, oil, minneapolis, harlem, forbes, austin, whole foods, toyota, ralph rapson | 0

  New reports shows 50 of the largest cities in the U.S. have high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent. Philadelphia City Council rethinks urban planning strategy. David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens, built in Harlem, features green standards and Next American City chosen as one of the panelists to grill big oil companies at new congressional hearing? Today’s headlines.

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  Is Global Warming Real? The Earth Armwrestles Itself

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, news, japan, editorial, canada, global warming, weather channel, news facts | 0

  Check out the variety of press global warming is getting these days… Jeffrey Hill reports on the Baskin Robbins of global warming reporting.

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  Daryl Hannah is a passionate environmentalist

  Karl Weathers | Thu, Feb 7th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: environment, sustainability, wall street, karl weathers, shark swarm, kill bill, daryl hannah, grumpy old men, woody harrelson, the clan of the cave bear | 1

  This is part 1:

  Part two involves Daryl Hannah, specifically. No idea how we got on her mailing list, but someone at the Hallmark Channel decided The Next American City (and it’s mission of environmental and economic sustainability) deserved notification that Ms. Hannah—of Kill Bill, Grumpy Old Men, Wall Street and The Clan of the Cave Bear fame—has a new movie coming out. The PR is a little odd, even for PR. It begins: “Not only is Daryl Hannah a much sought after actress, she is…

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  Convenience culture: A roadblock to ‘sustainability’?

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Feb 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, jeffrey hill, environment, sustainability, luxury, wawa, resources, 7-eleven, social responsibility, convenience stores | 2

  I remember a friend of mine who was visiting from Germany once expressed his disbelief that 24-hour drive-thru pharmacies exist in this country. When I showed him this wonder, along with our supermarket aisle completely dedicated to cereal and of course, our Wawas, the look on his face made me realize just how much we have and how ridiculous it is that we can have it at anytime.

  
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  Don’t get me wrong, I love my cereal aisles, 24 hour pharmacies and…

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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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