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  NAC Exclusive Interview With Domenic Vitiello

  Scott Gabriel Knowles | Tue, May 20th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, building, suburbs, growth, interview, pennsylvania, scott gabriel knowles, domenic vitiello, urban history, urban historian | 0

  Everyone knows that deindustrialization in American cities started with the end of WWII and the decentralization of American manufacturing that followed it, right? A recent article in the Journal of Urban History by University of Pennsylvania professor Domenic Vitiello takes this chronology to task. 

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  Urban Policy and the Presidency

  Scott Gabriel Knowles | Thu, Apr 24th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: transportation, obama, clinton, foreclosure, president, transit, pennsylvania, scott gabriel knowles, nac, hillary, next american city, nominee, homeownership | 0

  Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have bolted Pennsylvania for now, but one of them will be back in the fall.  When they do return, they will be pressed to address urban issues that Philadelphians face, in detail. A first attempt to get the candidates’ views on urban policy took place on April 17 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  The event, “Urban Policy and the Presidency,” was co-sponsored by the Penn Institute for Urban Research and Next American City Magazine.

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  The Phantom Urban Debate

  Scott Gabriel Knowles | Thu, Nov 22nd, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: obama, new orleans, scott gabriel knowles, katrina, presidential campaign, times picayunne, edwards, phantom urban debate, urban debate | 0

  This week the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the locations for the three candidate match-ups next fall: Oxford, Mississippi, Nashville, and Hempstead, New York.  Louisiana elected officials and New Orleanians immediately decried the Crescent City’s absence from the list of three.  Senator Mary Landrieu noted in a Times-Picayune article that New Orleans was the only city of the sixteen applicants to have bipartisan support among the candidates, including Democratic Senators…

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  Disaster 2.0: Using GIS to cover misfortune-in-motion

  Scott Gabriel Knowles | Thu, Nov 8th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: scott gabriel knowles, digital divide, geographic information system, sonic memorial project, mr. beller's neighborhood | 0

  A firefighter in San Diego pulls out his blackberry and sees that the wind direction has changed and the ridgeline above him as about to burst into flames. A police helicopter crew in Houston observes flash flooding at an intersection and all traffic lights leading to the area change to red. The Mayor of Philadelphia clicks his way down a street from his computer screen in City Hall, counting abandoned houses. Hardly the stuff of science fiction, hazards mapping is rapidly moving the…

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  Urban Hazards and Disasters: Southern California Wildfires

  Matt Stroud | Fri, Oct 26th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: scott gabriel knowles, qualcomm stadium, the next catastrophe, urban wildfires, santa ana, drexel university, natural disasters, national fire protection association, charles perrow, natural hazards center | 0

  Why has knowledge of urban hazards like wildfire been increasing, while the number of disasters, and the losses associated also continue to climb?
  by Scott Gabriel Knowles, Drexel University

  “Santa Ana Blues 2007: The Great Temptation”

  Southern California is burning, again, and perhaps half a million people have evacuated from the areas in and around San Diego and up to L.A. over the past several days. Loss estimates now top one billion. In shades of New Orleans there are…

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