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Jeanne Haffner | Feb 17th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: Boston |
In the third installment of her new column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner visits Utile, Inc., a Boston-based planning and design firm, to better understand the importance of graphic representation in planning. (
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Kevin McMahon | Dec 7th, 2009 | Topic: Governance | Region: East Coast | Cities: Boston, Philadelphia |
Boston and Philadelphia both won challenges last week to the Census Bureau’s 2008 population estimates. What will this mean for federal funding, or the psyche of these cities? (
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Andrew Thompson | May 27th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston |
In his column, Metronomics, Andrew Thompson wonders whether tax abatements are an effective prescription for long-term urban health. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | May 7th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C. |
So says the latest report from the American Public Transit Association, which has calculated how much city residents can save this year by switching from cars to public transit. (
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Julia Ramey Serazio | May 5th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Boston, Houston |
Boston’s commuters share their pothole-related woes through a new service that helps community members call attention to non-emergency issues in their neighborhoods. (
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Andrew Thompson | Mar 23rd, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
In the latest installment of his column, Metronomics, Andrew Thompson reports on how cities are courting gay and lesbian travelers, who seem to be undaunted by terror attacks and recessions. (
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Next American City | Jun 5th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Boston |
According to the developer of Lena Park, Boston’s new Olmstead Green will consist of 153 affordable housing units and live up to its name by offering environment-friendly equipment and eco-savvy designs. (
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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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Meredith Aska McBride | Apr 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston |
Hospitals’ stir fears, sect youths conditioned to deceive outsiders, Olympic torch relay switches route and more in today’s headlines.
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Brendan Crain | Apr 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000. It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children. And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment? Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface. (
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In the third installment of her new column, Street Science, Jeanne Haffner visits Utile, Inc., a Boston-based planning and design firm, to better understand the importance of graphic representation in planning. (keep reading…)
Boston and Philadelphia both won challenges last week to the Census Bureau’s 2008 population estimates. What will this mean for federal funding, or the psyche of these cities? (keep reading…)
According to the developer of Lena Park, Boston’s new Olmstead Green will consist of 153 affordable housing units and live up to its name by offering environment-friendly equipment and eco-savvy designs. (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 average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000. It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children. And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment? Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface. (keep reading…)
