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Liz Lipsitz | Jan 2nd, 2012 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: Buffalo |
While Buffalo’s growing season is decidedly short, local gardeners know how to make the most of their time in the dirt. (
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This Big City | Dec 18th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: New York |
Parsons The New School for Design rolls out new academic programs that do away with the traditional dichotomy of theory versus practice. (
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Maxim Nasab | Nov 26th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
What if you were asked to live on a bridge? Would you ponder the question for a moment or refuse without hesitation? Architecture has become a seemingly limitless field, propelled ever further into our imagined future by new technology. Unfortunately bridges remain, at best, in the rearview (
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Sarah Fine | Nov 16th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Economy, Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: |
Chances are you heard about Occupy protestors in Oakland and Washington, D.C. being struck by cars two weeks ago—a Mercedes and a Lexus, respectively. But did you hear about the Hummer in Oakland? Or the Toyota truck that drove through a general assembly at the port? (
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Aditi Mehta | Oct 24th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Built Environment | Region: Central, East Coast, Midwest, South, West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles, New Orleans |
Like people, these misplaced chairs bring different personalities to the street and even tell stories about their respective neighborhoods. Sometimes they hang out on the sidewalk for a while, but most of the time they don’t linger long. (
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This Big City | Oct 13th, 2011 | Topic: Governance, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
London has a long history of gang culture, once being considered the gang capital of the world. Yet despite handing that title over to American cities in the mid-twentieth century, gangs have remained a consistent problem – a problem which in recent years appears to be on the increase.
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Emilie Bahr | Oct 8th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
Could the special yet hard to describe place of New Orleans in the American psyche explain the influx of young, educated people to the city in the past several years? (
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Paul Crabtree | Sep 28th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Dallas, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco |
A night at the symphony or the opera is one of the pinnacles of western artistic experience, yet these corporate arts institutions are becoming unable to attract audiences to their performances, and have recently begun to close down in record numbers. (
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Next American City | Sep 21st, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Economy, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Next American City is the proud media co-sponsor of Meeting of the Minds on September 22 and 23. We invite you to view the conference via live and free webcast.
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Theodore Brown | Sep 3rd, 2011 | Topic: Governance, Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast, South | Cities: New York |
Hurricane Irene was predicted to be once-in-a-generation bad. Cities were evacuated and panic was widespread. The nation kept an especially focused eye on New York’s preparations in a city that has seen less than a dozen major storms since 1821. (
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