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• The Daily Report

  The Big Apple’s Little Gambles

  Diana Lind | Thu, Jul 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: transportation, downtown, transit, diana lind, brooklyn, paris, manhattan, bikes, bike share 2008, congestion, city room blog | 1

  New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real?

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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, restaurants, parks, toilet | 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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• Headlines

  More Olympic news, Stories from D.C., Florida HUD goes Local, Golf Sprawl, MORE

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Apr 7th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: jeffrey hill, building, headlines, downtown, cnn, chicago, china, police, paris, protests, sprawl, olympics, suburb, bob king, upenn, washington post, golf, university of penn | 0

  Tibetan protesters continue their focus on China’s olympic march, UPenn students win student urban design competition, Florida HUD returns to local control, Hispanics contribute $60 billion to the telecommunications industry ... this and more in today’s headlines.

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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, vertical hazards, closet art, 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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• The Daily Report

  London: The new world capital?

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Dec 26th, 2007 | Category: Report | City: London | Tags: jeffrey hill, paris, london, mexico city, tokyo, the guardian, united kingdom, oag, new world capital, the independent, world capital | 0

  The Independent, a British compact newspaper, recently conducted a study comparing the world’s largest cities’ population figures, financial markets, tourism trends, transport facilities, transportation, sports and arts events in an effort to name the new world capital. Using 14 separate criteria that help to define a city, the London newspaper calculated and scored hundreds of cities. An explanation of their study can be read here.

  After months of researching what the paper claims to…

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• The Daily Report

  Simmering Paris, Classism in LA, Jo-Burg Greenspace, Rebirth and more

  Hayley Richardson | Thu, Nov 29th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, headlines, paris, fema, why cities grow, beijing facelift, new study blasts immigrants | 0

  New Study Blasts Immigrants

  “A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies, which promotes limiting immigration, argues that the current levels hurt the country. Foreign-born adults have less education than native-born citizens and raise the rates of poverty, welfare use and lack of medical insurance, says Steven Camarota, the center’s director of research. Critics say the study overlooks immigrant contributions. Dowell Myers, a professor of urban planning and demography at the…

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