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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jan 30th, 2012 | Topic: Governance | Region: Midwest | Cities: Chicago |
Last week, David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Obama, announced that after the 2012 election season he’ll return to Chicago to run a political institute at the University of Chicago. The program will have a focus on “urban politics” — what should be on the syllabus? (
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Jed Horne|The Lens | Jan 10th, 2012 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: South | Cities: New Orleans |
“Now, you can’t even tell who’s the child and who’s the parent. We lost that structure, and instead we got babies having babies. We need to address that.”—John Thompson (
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Jeff Tiell | Jan 25th, 2011 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: San Francisco |
Jeff Tiell reports on the growing popularity of academic urban planning programs, and questions how and why planners should study. (
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Carly Berwick | May 3rd, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Carly Berwick reviews a “detailed, engrossing book” by Elizabeth Rose, called
The Promise of Preschool. What does early education have to do with cities? A lot. (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Feb 12th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Ben Adler | Jan 20th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg emphasized education in his address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. (
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Nate Berg | Nov 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Urban design, urban planning and architecture interrelate—except in the classroom. (
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Jeffrey Hill | Jul 26th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Next American City’s Jeffrey Hill was on hand at The Brookings Institute’s Hamilton Project panel discussion last Friday, validating his predictions over the last few months over infrastructure. As Linda Richman would say - America’s infrastructure is neither “in” nor “structured,” discuss… (
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Jeffrey Hill | Jun 11th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Jennifer Kim | May 2nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
With such a strong presence as a minority group, why don’t more Asian Americans turn up for elections? Asian Americans’ small participation in the political arena can be seen as stemming from their cultural backgrounds. Jennifer Kim reports. (
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