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Mary Jones | Jul 16th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: Phoenix |
Formerly a collection of old buildings and parking lots, Civic Space Park now invites the Phoenix community to experience world class design in the course of everyday life
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Ferentz Lafargue | Aug 25th, 2010 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix |
Today, police chiefs representing twenty-seven major cities will gather in New York for an unprecedented discussion of law enforcement responses to racial profiling, immigration policy and in approaches to countering intra-departmental racism. (
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Simmons Buntin | Oct 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Transit anywhere can be a paradox, but especially so in the low-density Desert Southwest. Simmons Buntin explores transit, or the lack thereof, in his Tucson community of Civano, and in the high-end residential development Saguaro Ranch, as he searches for a personal auto that lightens his carbon footprint. (
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Brian Krier | Aug 4th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Last week, the Brookings Institution released its latest report from its Blueprint for American Prosperity initiative. The report, entitled “Mountain Megas: America’s Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper,” highlights the Southern Intermountain West – a region developing at a rate presently unparalleled elsewhere in the country, bringing with it all the blessings and burdens of rapid growth. (
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Simmons Buntin | May 30th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Pittsburgh |
All the recent Phoenix Mars Lander hullabaloo has got me thinking about what the first Earth-built city on Mars would look like. Who would get the opportunity to plan that city, and would we find the amenities that make Earth’s best urban spaces also make for the best cities on the Red Planet? (
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Jeffrey Hill | Apr 21st, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
America’s moms are cutting back the grocery bill with homemade products, Maui preserves lifestyle in new urban growth plan, Boston’s new wind power facility, Arthur Simpson talks trees in New York and more in today’s headlines. (
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Evan Miller | Apr 9th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The influence of Washington’s K Street, home to the offices of D.C.’s most prominent lobbyists, can be seen on Main Streets from Sumner, Washington to Simsbury, Connecticut. From filling potholes to installing water treatment facilities, lobbyists have a growing influence on how cities, counties and states secure funding for infrastructural needs. Unfortunately, with the continuing demonizing of the earmarking process, securing such a provision has become increasingly controversial. Evan Miller of
The New Argument reports. (
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Simmons Buntin | Feb 12th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Simmons Buntin | Dec 10th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Formerly a collection of old buildings and parking lots, Civic Space Park now invites the Phoenix community to experience world class design in the course of everyday life (keep reading…)
Today, police chiefs representing twenty-seven major cities will gather in New York for an unprecedented discussion of law enforcement responses to racial profiling, immigration policy and in approaches to countering intra-departmental racism. (keep reading…)
All the recent Phoenix Mars Lander hullabaloo has got me thinking about what the first Earth-built city on Mars would look like. Who would get the opportunity to plan that city, and would we find the amenities that make Earth’s best urban spaces also make for the best cities on the Red Planet? (keep reading…)
America’s moms are cutting back the grocery bill with homemade products, Maui preserves lifestyle in new urban growth plan, Boston’s new wind power facility, Arthur Simpson talks trees in New York and more in today’s headlines. (keep reading…)
The influence of Washington’s K Street, home to the offices of D.C.’s most prominent lobbyists, can be seen on Main Streets from Sumner, Washington to Simsbury, Connecticut. From filling potholes to installing water treatment facilities, lobbyists have a growing influence on how cities, counties and states secure funding for infrastructural needs. Unfortunately, with the continuing demonizing of the earmarking process, securing such a provision has become increasingly controversial. Evan Miller of The New Argument reports. (keep reading…)
