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Hamida Kinge | Mar 16th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Nowhere is Brooklyn’s industrial past more evident than in the Gowanus Canal, which the EPA has just named a Superfund site. Hamida Kinge interviews Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Tia Lessin about the designation’s impact on the neighborhood where she works. (
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Carly Berwick | Jan 14th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York |
Carly Berwick talks hipster hate and liberal snobbery as she examines a recent defense of gentrifiers, and welcomes the yoga-mat-toting masses into her own neighborhood. (
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Willy Staley | Jan 12th, 2010 | Topic: Governance, Culture, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Willy writes about his—and others’—mixed-up feelings about condominiums in Brooklyn, and how they relate to gentrification, affordable housing, and “authenticity”. (
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Diana Lind | Nov 30th, 2009 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for eminent domain watchers: First Pfizer moved out of New London, Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards got eminent domain approval, and then there’s Norwood, Ohio. Is it time we had a better definition of blighted? (
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Diana Lind | Aug 20th, 2009 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Turns out that Neil Freeman, the first artist to be exhibited in Next American City’s limited edition program, is one of 21 pioneers of data visualization. (
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Diana Lind | Aug 20th, 2009 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Turns out that Neil Freeman, the first artist to be exhibited in Next American City’s limited edition program, is one of 21 pioneers of data visualization. (
keep reading…)
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Jori Lewis | Jun 11th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
NAC Urban Leaders fellow Jori Lewis talks about the Green Carts popping up in New York City—and encourages her neighbors to take advantage of them. (
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Nov 17th, 2008 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
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Washington Post reports that my neighborhood, Mount Pleasant is suffering from a plague of shuttered storefronts on its commercial strip, Mount Pleasant Street. Although it was roughly equal parts white, black and Latino in the last census, it appears the population is changing.
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Next American City | Jul 25th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
Transportation Alternatives, a New York City-based advocacy group for walking, bicycling, and public transit, encourages the public to register in a complete street design competition.
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Diana Lind | Jul 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real? (
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Nowhere is Brooklyn’s industrial past more evident than in the Gowanus Canal, which the EPA has just named a Superfund site. Hamida Kinge interviews Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Tia Lessin about the designation’s impact on the neighborhood where she works. (keep reading…)
Willy writes about his—and others’—mixed-up feelings about condominiums in Brooklyn, and how they relate to gentrification, affordable housing, and “authenticity”. (keep reading…)
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for eminent domain watchers: First Pfizer moved out of New London, Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards got eminent domain approval, and then there’s Norwood, Ohio. Is it time we had a better definition of blighted? (keep reading…)
The Washington Post reports that my neighborhood, Mount Pleasant is suffering from a plague of shuttered storefronts on its commercial strip, Mount Pleasant Street. Although it was roughly equal parts white, black and Latino in the last census, it appears the population is changing. (keep reading…)
New York is experimenting with a bike share program and a peak-rate parking scheme — will either of these ideas get implemented for real? (keep reading…)
