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• The Daily Report

  Park Ave. Goes Pedestrian

  Kathryn Kondracki | Wed, Jun 18th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: New York | Tags: new york city, kat kondracki, michael bloomberg, transportation alternatives, summer streets, wiley norvell, janette sadik-khan | 2

  New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announce the pedestrian and bicycle-friendly initiative, Summer Streets. Kathryn Kondracki reports.

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• The Daily Report

  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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• Underpaid, Under-trained NYPD Officers Make Deadly Decisions

  Chanel Lee | Tue, Apr 29th, 2008 | City: Brooklyn | Tags: new york city, crime, brooklyn, police, color, queens, nypd, bloomberg, chanel lee, ruling, sean bell | 1

  Last Friday, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered his highly anticipated verdict in the trial of three NYPD detectives accused of killing Sean Bell. Can Bell’s death and others like it be attributed to the fact that NYPD officers and patrolmen are underpaid and insufficiently trained? Next American City welcomes new guest columnist, Chanel Lee.

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• Headlines

  Moms Fight High Food Costs, Wind Power and Turnaround Schools for Boston, Trees for New York, More

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Apr 21st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, new york city, news, headlines, growth, cnn, education, boston, arizona, wind power, schools, inflation, gas prices, arthur simpson, maui | 0

  America’s moms are cutting back the grocery bill with homemade products, Maui preserves lifestyle in new urban growth plan, Boston’s new wind power facility, Arthur Simpson talks trees in New York and more in today’s headlines.

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• The Daily Report

  Key Magazine: Unlocking Urban Realities?

  Diana Lind | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new york city, suburbs, growth, foreclosure, brooklyn, diana lind, magazine, new york times, real estate, key magazine | 3

  This past weekend saw the latest edition of the New York Times’s Key magazine. Usually a source of real estate porn, the magazine usually looks at the froth in the housing market and winks. With the exception of a piece about a company that tends to magnates’ private wineries, the latest issue was decidedly sober. More details in today’s featured commentary by Next American City editor Diana Lind.
  

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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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• Headlines

  Obama’s 3rd opponent, power, lighting, Bob Barker, more

  David Anderson | Wed, Feb 27th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: new york city, hillary clinton, barack obama, david anderson, los angeles, seattle, denver, minneapolis, seattle school district, institutional memory, intellectual property, pet sterilization, air conditioning, counterfeit, ralph nader, slingshot, bob barker, street lighting, power outage, university of washington | 0

  Nader unloads on Obama, Clinton

  Ralph Nader to the rescue. His third run at the Presidency, he told Politico, is due to the “spinelessness of the potential Democratic nominees, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.).” He cites Obama’s “relatively mediocre” Senate record as well as Clinton being “a panderer and a flatterer.” Nader knows his chances are slim as he admits, “‘Obviously, the system is triple-rigged against any small candidate.’” His run is more a…

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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, architectural tension, small business, st louis, traffic growth | 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, snowfall, words, university of vermont, tenant, skywalk | 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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• 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, semicolon, walker art center, green space, dulles airport, urban peripheries, sodal, favelas, transition towns, peak oil, kampala | 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

  CRUNK!!! And pot, java, the popo, Obama, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 14th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, new york city, barack obama, nypd, coffee, original white trash, grassroots drive, aclu, koreatown, lucille ball, soul food, marijuana, titanic | 0

  Celebrity and Showmanship on a Soul Food Menu

  “Of a bag of ‘Original White Trash,’ a snack mix coated in white chocolate, he said, ‘If you put that in the article, you have to say it was made by a Caucasian.’

  “Among the collectibles there was a tin of Lucille Ball ‘Predic-a-mints.’ What, a questioner wanted to know, did that famous redhead have to do with soul food?

  “ ‘Soul is the very essence of who we are. And she had it,’ Mr. Willhoite explained. ‘We all love Lucy. I wouldn’t…

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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, mexico, seoul | 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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• The Daily Report

  Urban Issue Grids, Transportation Policy Comparisons, Regret Over Giuliani’s Departure

  Mike Muller | Wed, Feb 6th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: mike muller, new york city, transportation, election 2008, gotham gazette, urban issue grids, rudy giuliani | 0

  Gotham Gazette on the Presidential Candidates

  Monday, Gotham Gazette took an extensive look a the remaining candidates and their positions on urban issues. It begins with a history of presidential policies for cities starting in the 60s and ending with today’s candidates. The piece then lays out the positions of the Democrats and Republicans in issue tables for easy comparison.

  Streetsblog on the Candidates’ Transportation Stances

  Starting with the GOP candidates, the blog says,…

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• Columnists

  ‘People in New York are the friendliest people in the world’

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Feb 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: simmons buntin, new york city, myths, great cities, friendly people | 4

  Well before the South American gauchos rolled through the subway that lolled from Uptown to Brooklyn, I knew most of my preconceptions about New York City were flat wrong.  As the two men sang over guitar and accordion, moving down the Sunday morning train to collect the small tips that most riders provided, I thought back over the last few days. It had been a scurry of literary readings and writing panels, late-night dinners and subway rides, and miles upon miles of Manhattan walks. And…

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• Headlines

  Bakery corruption, baggy jeans, bike-only parking lots, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Jan 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, meredith aska mcbride, new york city, suburb, hispanic, bikes, border fence, fema, urban education, egypt, parking lot, saggy pants, bread, trailer | 0

  Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma

  “What is required, educators say, is nothing less than revolutionizing schools built for another century, when a high school diploma was a ticket to social mobility in a manufacturing economy, and students with only basic skills could make it into the middle class. But the task is daunting, and the outcome uncertain, experts say.”

  The Nano Challenge: What happens when the green movement crashes into the anti-poverty crusade?

  “I’m not…

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• Headlines

  Racist Newsletters, Recounts, and the New York Primary

  Mike Muller | Tue, Jan 15th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: mike muller, new york city, election 2008, ron paul, new hampshire | 0

  New Hampshire: Machine vs. Paper or Urban vs. Rural?

  A recount of the ballots cast in New Hampshire has been granted to Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich and Republican candidate Albert Howard. They are raising concerns over differences in vote totals between hand counted ballots and other voting systems like electronic machines or optical scanners. Candidates like John McCain and Barack Obama received more votes in districts with paper ballots. But some have countered that this is…

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• The Daily Report

  Eat It, San Francisco: NYC Native Calls Dibs On Gentrification

  Matt Stroud | Thu, Jan 10th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: new york city, san francisco, danny hoch, williamsburg is ground zero, nyc native calls dibs | 1

  Interesting blog item from the folks at Curbed SF (via the San Francisco Bay Guardian (SFBG)). Listen to Danny Hoch, friends. Listen to hiiiimmmmm:

  “Williamsburg is ground zero for gentrification not just in New York but in the country, because it has provided a blueprint for how fast and how violent displacement and economic development can happen in a short amount of time.”

  And more:

  “Taking Over is about how gentrification is really masking the idea of colonialism and how everybody…

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• The Daily Report

  Just in time for the the Caucuses: Good Magazine translates capital cities

  Matt Stroud | Thu, Jan 3rd, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: new york city, capital cities, good magazine, caucuses | 0

  Literally! Have a look.

  Good tool for an added (perhaps trivial) edge as you debate which hopeful presidential candidate is most qualified to run in an increasingly global economy. For more fun, go here; make your own judgments about whether or not “eight years in [New York] City Hall constitute[s] foreign-policy experience.” Selah.

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  Via Verde: Success in the New York Housing Legacy Competition

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Jan 2nd, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, new york city, bronx, michael bloomberg, gotham gazette, cool town studios, new york housing legacy competition, via verde | 0

  The grass is much greener on the other side of the East River, where the perks of affordable housing in the Bronx will now include an outdoor amphitheater, rooftop gardens, apartments designed for breezes, and a fitness center, thanks to Via Verde, the winner of The New York New Housing Legacy’s first juried design competition. The site, which is located on East 165th street, will be sold to PR Design Group, LLP for $1 as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace plan to…

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