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Issue 25: Inside the Education Debate
Winter 2009
Issue No. 25 is a veritable grab-bag of great stories, with in-depth articles on healthcare and education; a special focus on transportation; a roundtable conversation about personal urban mobility with MIT professor William Mitchell and Zipcar founder Robin Chase; interviews with author Rebecca Solnit on how disaster can create something like a social utopia in cities, and Ed Mazria who suggests changing architecture could change the world. Plus: our new City Study section highlights Denver, examining how it sought to remake its image with starchitecture
Features
- EducationE for Equity
Inside New Jersey’s Education Debate
- Memphis Blues:
Taking on Infant Mortality
- TransportationThe French Revolution 1
How Strasbourg Gave Up the Car (and Why Midsized American Cities Can Too)
- Shovel-Ready Suburbs
Departments
- IdeasPutting a Lid on It 2
- IdeasHome, Sweet Cohome
- IdeasThe Stainless Steel City
- Urban HistorianAsk An Urban Historian
- RoundtableA New Spin on Urban Mobility
- InterviewThe Bright Side of Urban Disaster
Interview with Rebecca Solnit
- IdeasIn Good We Trust
- City StudyDenver
It was 1999 when former Mayor Wellington Webb made the Denver Art Museum (DAM) an offer it couldn’t refuse: If the museum was able to raise half the money necessary for a much-needed expansion, he would support a $60 million public bond to complement those funds.
Etcetera
- ReviewsRolling off the Rails
- ReviewsIsn’t It Authentic?
- ReviewsOur Maps, Ourselves
- ReviewsSympathy for the Suburbs
