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• NAC News

  Next American City heads to Minneapolis!

  Pooja Shah | Fri, Apr 17th, 2009 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: next american city, minneapolis, apa urban design & preservation division, the hotel ivy, minneapolis convention center, apa, drinks, reception, 412 | 0

  Next American City is heading to Minneapolis this month and we’re throwing a party to meet you!

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• NAC News

  RECAP: Issue 22 Launch Party!

  Pooja Shah | Mon, Mar 2nd, 2009 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: new york city, next american city, nac, issue launch party, hines gallery, issue release party, aia center for architecture, party, nyc, issue 22, 22, save the date | 0

  Next American City hosted the Issue 22 Launch Party in NYC last week and we met over 150 supporters of the magazine!

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• Columnists

  Will the Olympic Committee Apologize?

  Josh Leon | Tue, Feb 17th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | Tags: next american city, josh leon, beijing, anna tibaijuka, international olympic committee, housing rights, un habitat, jacques rogge | 0

  In his new column, Josh Leon examines a housing rights crisis in Beijing, taking aim at the International Olympic Committee.

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• The Daily Report

  New York Times Covers NOLA Charity Hospital Months After NAC

  Diana Lind | Wed, Nov 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, next american city, new york times, brentin mock, charity hospital | 1

  Next American City’s Brentin Mock wrote about the controversy surrounding New Orleans Charity Hospital for our Summer 2008 issue (No. 19) months ago — now the story is making national news with a little help from the Times.

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• The Daily Report

  Holiday Party + Issue 21 Release Celebration

  Pooja Shah | Thu, Nov 13th, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, next american city, digital divide, issue release, holiday party, 21 | 0

  Join Next American CIty for a holiday celebration as we unveil Issue 21!

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• Web Exclusives

  URBANEXUS Los Angeles—full recap!

  Michelle Kuly | Thu, Oct 23rd, 2008 | Tags: los angeles, architecture, diana lind, next american city, planetizen, los angeles times, mark vallianatos, urbanexus, sam lubell, chris hawthorne, lecture, salon, food politics, built environment, parmlab, architect's newspaper, a+d museum | 0

  Next American City kicked-off our URBANEXUS series on Oct. 29 & Oct. 31 in Los Angeles. Find a slideshow of the event plus full audio of Mark Vallianatos’ speech right here on AmericanCity.org!

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• The Daily Report

  Next American City Surrogate Debate Video

  Benjamin Gilbert | Wed, Oct 22nd, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: next american city, paul brophy, obama mccain debate | 0

  Two weeks ago, Next American City and the Penn Institute for Urban Research co-hosted a McCain/Obama surrogate debate. Exclusively on our website we have full video from the event.

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• NAC News

  Next American City’s Urban Leaders Fellowship — Announcing the Runners Up!

  Diana Lind | Tue, Oct 21st, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: next american city, urban leaders fellowship, michael freedman-schnapp, jori lewis, lionel foster | 1

  I’ve been getting a deluge of e-mails and phone calls all last week from people wanting to know the status of the Urban Leaders Fellowship. Apologies for the delay! Read on to find out the details…

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• Columnists

  The Deets on Detroit

  Diana Lind | Fri, Oct 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Detroit | Tags: philadelphia, detroit, diana lind, next american city, mies van der rohe, design philadelphia, creative cities | 5

  I’d never been to Detroit before, only driven through it once on my way from Toronto to Chicago. What I knew of the city were images of the Ren Cen, urban blight, Eminem and GM. I went out to Detroit for the Creative Cities Summit 2.0 and gave a keynote speech about young urban leader organizations…. and wasn’t quite sure what to say about the city until I was out last night in Philadelphia…

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• The Daily Report

  The NY Sun Sets — A Beginning of an Era?

  Diana Lind | Tue, Sep 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: diana lind, next american city, the college board, conrad black, new york sun, rick moody, richard price | 0

  The New York Sun, a conservative paper that was almost entirely freely distributed to the wealthier zip codes of New York, has failed to finance its future. I should be cheering the demise a paper with an editorial page almost as heinous as the Wall Street Journal‘s, but I’m much more concerned about the relationship between cities and their papers. Read on.

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• The Daily Report

  Bridging the Gap Between Town and City

  Benjamin Gilbert | Tue, Sep 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: next american city, brookings institute, christopher leinberger, walkable urbanism | 1

  Are suburbs the next target for economic blight? In a recent piece for The Atlantic, professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan and Next American City interviewee Christopher B. Leinberger details how culture and economics over the past 20 years have influenced where we live and, maybe more importantly, what may happen to the places many Americans grew up.

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• NAC News

  Next American City wins an Ozzie!

  Pooja Shah | Tue, Sep 23rd, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: next american city, ozzie awards, folio | 2

  We won! Everybody here at Next American City is celebrating the official word that we won an Ozzie Award!

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• NAC News

  Diana Lind on Smart City Radio

  Next American City | Thu, Sep 11th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: milwaukee, diana lind, next american city, 24:hrs, carol coletta, smart city radio, radio | 2

  Ever wonder what Next American City’s editor sounds like? She sounds uncertain how to give a radio interview. Nonetheless, here she is talking about the magazine’s upcoming trip to Milwaukee — the plan for lectures, parties, and a 24:Hrs walking tour.

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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, detroit, building, next american city, brooklyn, homeless, katrina, taxpayers, events, research, 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

  Op-ed: Why Booming Cities Still Need Visionary Mice—and Artists

  Next American City | Mon, May 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: next american city, gentrification, artists, carly berwick, soho, op ed | 0

  Carly Berwick, contributing writer for Next American City, wrote this op-ed in the fall of 2007 about the significance of arts gentrification in SoHo and how the same principles can be applied to other cities

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• NAC News

  NAC In San Francisco This Week! Events, News and More.

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Apr 21st, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: jeffrey hill, san francisco, next american city, sustainability, pooja shah, michelle kuly, symposium, popos, ecocity, spur, swig, john bela, sarah karlinsky, joshua switzky, upcoming events, public spaces, margie o’driscoll | 0

  This week, Next American City travels to San Francisco, hosting the “Space in the City” symposium on Wednesday, and a subscriber cocktail party on Thursday.  We will also be attending the Ecocity World Summit from April 22 to 26, where NAC’s publisher, Michelle Kuly, will be moderating a panel on sustainability and cities. Read for more details.

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