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Issue 27: The American Dream?
Summer 2010
Issue No. 27 provides comprehensive coverage of important changes happening in America’s urban areas, with in-depth articles on immigration in Columbus, Ohio, and the risks of privately funded public parks New York. There’s also a special focus on suburban poverty; a roundtable conversation about food injustice in St. Louis; an interviews with planner James Rojas and ideas stories about modernist architecture, surveillance in cities and the growing use of pedicabs. Plus: our ongoing City Study section highlights Las Vegas, examining how officials there are trying to diversify the economy as they redevelop downtown.
Features
- Surviving Suburbia 2
- TransportationThe Buses Are Coming 1
- The High Cost of Free Parks 8
Do Public-Private Partnerships Save Parks or Exploit Them?
- ImmigrationSomalia on the Scioto:
What immigrants mean for the future of Columbus
Departments
- IdeasModern History
- RoundtableThe Food Fight 1
Three experts discuss how to feed the hungry and sustain communities
- InterviewEveryone’s A Planner
An interview with James Rojas
- InterviewGreening the Waters
An interview with Howard Neukrug
- City StudyLas Vegas
- City StudySin, Sun and Wynn
What happens in Vegas, by the numbers
- Chattanooga’s Crystal Ball
- Art’s Sweet Spot
Detroit, Mich.
- Curb Appeal
New York, N.Y.
- Scrap Boon
PORTLAND, ORE.
- Water World
CONCORD, N.H.
- Moving Mountains
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
- Grass Ceiling
CLEVELAND, OHIO
- IdeasConcrete, Canyons and Climate Change
- IdeasTweeting Traffic
- Ideas1984 in 2010
- IdeasPeople Movers
- Urban HistorianAsk An Urban Historian
- 24 HRS: PITTSBURGH
Etcetera
- ReviewsRiding Shotgun Around the World
The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
- ReviewsWhen Downtown Drowns
- ReviewsBright Future, Hazy Past
- ReviewsSense and the City
