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Elizabeth Kerr | Oct 7th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Culture, Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
Elizabeth Kerr interviews Andrew Dalzell, Administrator of the Ed Bacon Foundation, about this year’s Student Design Competition, which asks participants to design a plan for the 2026 USA 250 Celebration in Philadelphia, PA. (
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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Oct 6th, 2010 | Topic: Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Oct 4th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Culture, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles, New York, Urban Nation |
The
New York Times’ David Brooks and the
Washington Post‘s Kathleen Parker both show massive blindspots for the issues inherent to the suburban project. Because the two are arbiters of conventional wisdom, this is problematic. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Oct 4th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
An interview with Megan Canning, the deputy director of the Design Trust for Public Space and a visual artist. (
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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Sep 30th, 2010 | Topic: Economy | Region: East Coast | Cities: Baltimore |
Amtrak hopes to improve connections to places like Baltimore and Hartford, but does that mean they’ll just become far-flung suburbs of bigger cities? (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Sep 28th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia |
An interview with Sean Brown of Camden, N.J., founder of Young Urban Leaders. (
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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Sep 27th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast, West Coast | Cities: Portland |
A new study by the Transportation Research Board suggests cities have a lot more research to do before they can conclusively prove that streetcars actually produce new construction. (
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Elizabeth Kerr | Sep 21st, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh |
As she launches a series on public art, NAC editorial assistant (and new Philadelphia resident) Elizabeth Kerr muses on the power and the potential of art in the urban space. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 15th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Economy, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Detroit, New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Timothy Noah, on
Slate, is putting out an excellent series on the growing income inequality here in the United States. How has this history of income compressions and divergences helped shaped the places we live? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 8th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Infrastructure, Governance, Economy | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Milwaukee, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Obama’s Laborfest Proposal: The president spoke to a crowd of union workers in Milwaukee on Monday to make the case for a new infrastructure-based stimulus bill. Urban Nation determines which parts of the speech were pure political posturing, and which were genuinely innovative public policy. (
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Elizabeth Kerr interviews Andrew Dalzell, Administrator of the Ed Bacon Foundation, about this year’s Student Design Competition, which asks participants to design a plan for the 2026 USA 250 Celebration in Philadelphia, PA. (keep reading…)
Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (keep reading…)
An interview with Megan Canning, the deputy director of the Design Trust for Public Space and a visual artist. (keep reading…)
Amtrak hopes to improve connections to places like Baltimore and Hartford, but does that mean they’ll just become far-flung suburbs of bigger cities? (keep reading…)
An interview with Sean Brown of Camden, N.J., founder of Young Urban Leaders. (keep reading…)
A new study by the Transportation Research Board suggests cities have a lot more research to do before they can conclusively prove that streetcars actually produce new construction. (keep reading…)
As she launches a series on public art, NAC editorial assistant (and new Philadelphia resident) Elizabeth Kerr muses on the power and the potential of art in the urban space. (keep reading…)
Timothy Noah, on Slate, is putting out an excellent series on the growing income inequality here in the United States. How has this history of income compressions and divergences helped shaped the places we live? (keep reading…)
Obama’s Laborfest Proposal: The president spoke to a crowd of union workers in Milwaukee on Monday to make the case for a new infrastructure-based stimulus bill. Urban Nation determines which parts of the speech were pure political posturing, and which were genuinely innovative public policy. (keep reading…)
