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• The Daily Report

  Anthropocentric Myopia

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Mar 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, building, magazine, anthropocentric, anthropology, skyscrapers | 1

  “We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.” –Aldo Leopold, Sand County Almanac.

  It’s the time of year when I start fetishizing trees. As a current urbanite who’s spent years traipsing around Colorado and Maine, a three month barrage of concrete winter wreaks havoc upon my soul.  In my March imaginings, I’m standing on a wooded hilltop, caressed by a rogue leaf, warmed by the sun.  I’m awash in the kind of wonder I…

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• Headlines

  NAC site revamp Historic Hot House, Grass vs. Turf, Fare Hikes, More…

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Mar 3rd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, suburbs, headlines, california, crime, seattle, las vegas, nuclear reactor building, historic hot house, synthetic turf, mta, fare, m-hotel | 0

  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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• 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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• NAC News

  Describe Next American City in seven words or less.

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Feb 26th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: jeffrey hill, hayley richardson, accessibility, interaction, sentimental city, walnut street, sausage cart, dynamic, seven words or less, veterans stadium | 1

  Does the Next American City include the sausage cart down the street? I hope so. I also hope it includes the girls who walk down Walnut St. off the speed line. I’d take the girls over the buildings any day. A lot of us would, because we’re human beings. We’re dirty. We smell bad. We forget to shower and we live in a city, stinking together.

  At the Next American City, there has been discussion of tag lines, an identity for our cause and a place to fit in. I think of NAC as the…

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• Headlines

  Dangerous Obesity, Mississippi Skyline, Halted Downtowns, more

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Feb 25th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, los angeles, downtown, construction, katrina, skyliine, traffic plateau, green cart, mississippi skyline, obesity, traffic growth, st louis, architectural tension, small business | 0

  Manhattanville’s Architectural Tension

  “Beyond the glass and steel illustrations of Columbia’s planned Manhattanville buildings is a tension between preserving the aesthetic aspects of the neighborhood and convincing local residents to embrace a modern look.Although architecture alone does not create a space, design wields powerful force in helping to sculpt not only the physical characteristics, but also the emotional and psychological mood of a neighborhood. “What the community…

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• Headlines

  A Friday In Pictures and Words

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Feb 22nd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, gentrification, baltimore, harlem, eminent domain, pictures, friday, cloverleaf, tree-oriented planning, historic zone, university of vermont, snowfall, skywalk, words, tenant | 0

  ”The First Real Snowfall of the Season”

  

  Baltimore Votes Against Eminent Domain

  The Baltimore City Planning Commission voted against the West Covington Urban Renewal Plan by a 7-to-1 vote Thursday night, sending the redevelopment proposal to City Council with the suggestion of eliminating eminent domain from the plan. The commissioners were in agreement that the plan presented a needed redevelopment opportunity for the city, but they couldn’t approve of the plan because it…

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• The Daily Report

  Oh how we miss the old New York! Or: What does it mean to be nostalgic for something you never knew?

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Feb 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, gentrification, manhattan, sense of place, jane jacobs, the old new york, nostalgia, authenticity, mary cantwell | 2

  Maybe it was Nathaniel Rich’s recent lament in the New York Times, or the idle chatter in the NAC office, but it seems that lately, the word on everyone’s lips is that they miss the old New York. I’ve been hearing complaints such as “it’s not real anymore,” “everyone’s been pushed out,” and “it’s like a museum.” Apparently, New York (specifically Manhattan) has become a simulacra of itself.

  Sure, I’ve read Mary Cantwell and Jane Jacobs and lament the fact that New York no longer…

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• The Daily Report

  Grameen America and ‘gravitating towards lethargy’

  Hayley Richardson | Tue, Feb 19th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Tags: jeffrey hill, hayley richardson, queens, jackson heights, grameen america, dominican republic, lethargy, joan didion, muhammed yunus, bangladesh | 0

  

  I was recently fortunate enough to see Dr. Muhammed Yunus at the Free Library in Philadelphia.  The Bangladeshi founder of the Grameen Bank and recent Nobel Prize winner was there to discuss his new book, “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism.” Before an audience primarily composed of progressive Wharton students, he railed against capitalism in its raw form, arguing that it does little to further social equality.  What he need instead is a…

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• Headlines

  SoDal, Kampala Green, Urban Peripheries, Semicolon Love , more

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Feb 18th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, transit, minneapolis, dallas, dulles airport, walker art center, semicolon, green space, urban peripheries, sodal, transition towns, kampala, favelas, peak oil | 0

  Fixing Southern Dallas (Start by Calling it SoDal)

  “Fixing southern Dallas requires interrupting the cycle of failure and creating enough reverse momentum for success to start breeding success. It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen quickly, but here are some ways that might help get it started:”

  Transition Towns

  “The Transition Towns movement, a coalition of community-led response initiatives to peak oil and climate change, has been spreading rapidly. Starting in Ireland, and…

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• Headlines

  Can Stand Alone Malls Survive? Smug bikers, underwater cities, rail revolution, more

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Feb 15th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, green space, coal mine, stand-alone malls, amsterdam, ripon college, liberal arts, clean energy, arabian villa, canals | 0

  Can Stand Alone Malls Survive?

  The stand-alone mall isn’t dead. It’s just dysfunctional. That was one of the sentiments expressed at an Urban Land Institute panel that tackled the question, “Can stand-alone malls survive?” The question was posed Thursday, during ULI’s annual Reinventing Retail conference at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.”

  Arabian Villa: Fit For a City

  Enclosed courtyards with the cool comforts of shady trees and water fountains — the basic…

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• The Daily Report

  Persepolis: A City Worth Visiting

  Hayley Richardson | Thu, Feb 14th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Tags: hayley richardson, animation, marjane satrapi, film review, persepolis, julia alvarez, iran, edwidge danticat, war on terror, chador | 1

  

  Persepolis, based on the 2003 graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, is an autobiographical portrait of resistance in the face of suppression.  It’s a poignant coming of age story that begins in pre-revolutionary Iran, where precocious Marjane is schooled in radical ideas by her left-wing, intellectual parents. As a child, she regularly constructs night-time conversations between Marx and God, and peppers her extended family with questions, many of whom were jailed for speaking out against…

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• The Daily Report

  Gender-only is not the same as gender equality

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Feb 13th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, japan, buses, gender, equality, mexico city, public transit, seoul, mexico | 1

  Monday, the Times reported that a new “women only” bus line has recently begun running in Mexico City. With enormous pink signs proclaiming “exclusivo damas!” they cater to the thousands of women who’ve been victims of sexual harassment on D.F’s overcrowded public transportation system. The buses run less frequently, but they offer a respite from the probing hands and eyes of fellow male travelers.

  As this video demonstrates, most women applaud the arrival of the buses, and see this as…

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• Headlines

  Maglev vs. Subway, Biofuel hazards, World Bank Pronouncements, more

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Feb 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, los angeles, california, harlem, ethanol, cebu city, world bank, frederick douglass, maglev, net zero energy, transit oriented development | 0

  Reimagining Cities

  “Cities are now home to half of the world’s 6.6 billion humans. By 2030, nearly 5 billion people will live in cities. This special issue explores the enormous implications of the mass embrace of city life. News articles offer a look at how cities are tackling specific problems, a set of Reviews and Perspectives examines trends and demographics arising from the urban transformation.”

  Disagreements over Harlem’s Redevelopment

  “The Department of Housing,…

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• Headlines

  LACMA Debacles, Congestion Pricing, Hotdog Towers, Nepotism, more

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Feb 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, lacma, cebu city, dream cities, congestion pricing, design 21, hotdog towers, reno, nathan's | 0

  The Dream City In the Phillipines

  So they were listening, after all. A coalition of businessmen on Sunday urged the Cebu City government to implement the plans laid out during the sessions for the Dream Cities program of the Institute Solidarity in Asia (ISA) in 2005. The Cebu City government presented the “vision” of becoming most livable city in Asia by 2015 to the conference in August 2005.
  
  So This Is Why LA Doesn’t Work

  Last April, the Los Angeles Planning Commission endorsed…

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• Headlines

  Regal Rants, Starbucks Closing, Sustainable Sewage, McMansion Imposion, more…

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Feb 1st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, minneapolis, raleigh 49th largest city, peachtree streetcar project, starbucks closing, prince charles, shanghai urban planning exhibition | 0

  Urban Planning in Shanghai

  “To put the city’s dizzying growth in perspective, a visit to the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition is far more interesting than its dry name suggests, even if it doesn’t address the stickier issues like, what will this frenzy of development mean for the the people who live within the Shanghai city limits now?”

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  Ranting Against Skyscrapers, British-Style

  “Britain’s Prince Charles has warned skyscrapers are “disfiguring” London’s skyline and…

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• The Daily Report

  Weekend tidbits: Why You Should Hate Cement And Love Oakland

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Jan 28th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, new orleans, oakland, cement, housing surplus, green supportive housing, historic preservation philadelphia | 0

  Housing Surplus in New Orleans

  “Thousands of people are looking for a place to live in this city. Many thousands of houses are vacant or for sale, and acres of land sit empty. But turning potential housing into inhabited homes is proving to be a major challenge, even for a city that survived the fury of Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levees. For those who need shelter the most, these houses are out of reach.”

  Chicago Seniors Psyched About Public Transport

  “State…

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• Headlines

  Disappearing Cities, Drive-Thru Bans, Harlem’s Fight, more…

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Jan 25th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, harlem, kwame kilpatrick scandal, ivory coast, disappearing cities, 125th st., historic zone, benin, detroit revitalization, drive-thru bans | 1

  Eroding Cities

  “Huge breakers constantly battering Benin’s coast—and the rest of the shoreline on the Gulf of Guinea—are starting to take their toll. Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria are also fighting to stop the sea from gulping up chunks of land. Hardest hit would be the section of Cotonou known as Les Ambassadeurs. In tiny Benin, the erosion on its narrow stretch of coastline was first recorded a century ago. “
  
  Canada’s Drive-Thru Ban

  “Some green-minded civic politicians…

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• The Daily Report

  Note to Cities: Richard Florida is not the messiah

  Hayley Richardson | Tue, Jan 22nd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, barack obama, facebook, richard florida, messiah, note to cities, philly fellows, youth involvement | 4

  My recent trip to New Hampshire, and a virtual argument between our own Dave Steele and the “untouchable” Richard Florida have unexpectedly and cogently intertwined.

  Both raise the question of citizen participation, and force us to examine the decidedly un-sexy ingredients to building a sustainable city.

  Campaigning for Obama in rural New Hampshire, I met countless people who have been involved in every primary season since they were old enough to vote. Granted, New Hampshire is…

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• Headlines

  Closet Art, SkyWalk, Philly Cycling, Motoboys, more

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Jan 21st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, paris, motoboys, closet art, vertical hazards, bike sharing philadelphia, san francisco state university | 0

  SF Greening: One Complex At a Time

  “Environmentalists and planners say the proposal for the complex south of San Francisco State University is a paragon of 21st century urban development.As envisioned today, the renovation would seek to cut energy consumption by 62 percent and water use by 42 percent in each new unit by installing cogeneration systems that take advantage of the heat given off during electricity production plus highly efficient appliances and fixtures, along with…

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• Headlines

  SLUTS, Sexy Immigration, Newsom’s Playhouse, MORE…

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Jan 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, mayor nutter, gavin newsom, politics of american apparel, slut | 0

  This Slut’s For You

  “Steve Scher of KUOW-FM and I recently walked from Seattle’s University District to Hooter’s and jumped the SLUT. It was a nice little ride, my first. Now that the hoopla’s died down, it was a chance to get a sense of how Seattle’s streetcar of dreams is doing trundling along the streets of Allentown.”

  As an aside, just look at the lengths to which the green movement has gone in Seattle.
  
  Nutter’s and Bolts

  Of the many pledges Mayor Nutter made during his…

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