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Edward Russell | Sep 9th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: Central | Cities: Denver |
Edward Russel says that Denver is keeping its promise to citizens to become a more transit-oriented metropolis. (
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City/Culture | Jeremy Rosenberg | Sep 3rd, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: Central | Cities: Detroit, Las Vegas |
An interview with Carmen Mauk of Burners without Borders, which takes the community-building spirit of the late-summer mega-festival and brings it to troubled communities around the world. (
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Greg Scruggs | Aug 30th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: Central | Cities: Las Vegas, San Francisco |
Greg Scruggs reports from Burning Man, which makes Black Rock City Nevada’s fourth-largest urban area for a week each year. This year’s theme: “Metropolis.” (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 24th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Economy | Region: Urban Nation, Central, East Coast | Cities: Denver, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
HUD rolled out its Green Retrofit Program, which awards grants to multifamily subsidized and public housing for “greening” their building stock. In some ways, this program is a perfect example of how Stimulus spending ought to work. (
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Jeff Tiell | Jul 14th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: Central | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Tiny Berea College is at the epicenter of a notable trend in which higher learning institutions pair academic work with social service, in an effort to create the next generation of social entrepreneurs. (
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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Jul 8th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: Central | Cities: Denver |
The Department of Energy completes work on a huge zero-carbon building in Colorado. But the structure doesn’t address the negative ecological effects of automobile dependence. (
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Ferentz Lafargue | Jul 2nd, 2010 | Topic: Economy | Region: Central, East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Chicago, Cleveland, Miami, New York |
In a crusade reminiscent of recent campaigns to bring the Olympics or a new stadium to their cities, a number of prominent elected officials (and of course rappers) have been engaging in a contest to land Lebron James, the all-star Cleveland Cavaliers forward. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Jun 30th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance | Region: Urban Nation, Central, East Coast | Cities: Chicago, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Earlier this week the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of limiting state and local governments’ power to infringe on Second Amendment rights. Today, we wonder what James Madison—who wrote the amendment 40 years before the invention of the revolver—would have thought about urban gun crime. (
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Vincent Valk | Jun 28th, 2010 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: Central, West Coast | Cities: Milwaukee, Portland |
Vincent Valk writes about cities’ relentless quest to attract “human capital,” and wonders whether they are defining it too narrowly. (
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Mike Lydon | Jun 23rd, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: Central | Cities: |
On Sunday, June 13th, approximately 15,000 people showed up to Lexington, Kentucky’s Bluegrass Airport. But the only flight they were taking that day was under the power of their own feet. (
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Edward Russel says that Denver is keeping its promise to citizens to become a more transit-oriented metropolis. (keep reading…)
An interview with Carmen Mauk of Burners without Borders, which takes the community-building spirit of the late-summer mega-festival and brings it to troubled communities around the world. (keep reading…)
Greg Scruggs reports from Burning Man, which makes Black Rock City Nevada’s fourth-largest urban area for a week each year. This year’s theme: “Metropolis.” (keep reading…)
Tiny Berea College is at the epicenter of a notable trend in which higher learning institutions pair academic work with social service, in an effort to create the next generation of social entrepreneurs. (keep reading…)
The Department of Energy completes work on a huge zero-carbon building in Colorado. But the structure doesn’t address the negative ecological effects of automobile dependence. (keep reading…)
In a crusade reminiscent of recent campaigns to bring the Olympics or a new stadium to their cities, a number of prominent elected officials (and of course rappers) have been engaging in a contest to land Lebron James, the all-star Cleveland Cavaliers forward. (keep reading…)
Earlier this week the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of limiting state and local governments’ power to infringe on Second Amendment rights. Today, we wonder what James Madison—who wrote the amendment 40 years before the invention of the revolver—would have thought about urban gun crime. (keep reading…)
Vincent Valk writes about cities’ relentless quest to attract “human capital,” and wonders whether they are defining it too narrowly. (keep reading…)
On Sunday, June 13th, approximately 15,000 people showed up to Lexington, Kentucky’s Bluegrass Airport. But the only flight they were taking that day was under the power of their own feet. (keep reading…)
