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Alex Ihnen| nextSTL | Jan 26th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: Midwest | Cities: St. Louis |
An expensive plan to redevelop the area surrounding the most defining feature of St. Louis claims to have pedestrian accessibility in mind. Why, then, does it call to eliminate crucial walkways? And why aren’t the local media vetting it accordingly? (
keep reading…)
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Yonah Freemark | Jan 25th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: | Cities: |
In our third post today on the State of the Union, Yonah Freemark of
The Transport Politic assess the odds of to what extent infrastructure will improve on a national level this year. What he concludes isn’t promising: The Obama administration appears to have scaled back its plans. (
keep reading…)
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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 (
keep reading…)
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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? (
keep reading…)
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Leda Marritz and Nathalie Shanstrom | Oct 1st, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Speed bumps, street markings, speed limits and other measures have all been used to create safer conditions for all users of the road. But what about trees? (
keep reading…)
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Theodore Brown | Sep 29th, 2011 | Topic: Economy | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Occupy Wall Street protesters are chasing the tail and not the head. Rising poverty and stagnant opportunities weren’t caused by financiers anymore than the hostage crisis was caused by President Carter. (
keep reading…)
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This Big City | Sep 15th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Economy, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
London’s Underground rail network is hugely popular with the city’s residents, carrying over 3 million passengers a day between its 270 stations. However, its iconic buses are even more widely used, transporting 6 million Londoners around the city every day.
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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. (
keep reading…)
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Angie Schmitt | Jul 20th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Economy, Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles |
Over the weekend, a team of bicyclists beat an airplane from Burbank to Long Beach, California. The closely watched, 40-mile race was a thrilling climax to a story that’s been unfolding for weeks now. “Carmaggedon” — the weekend closure of the 405 freeway. (
keep reading…)
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Bailey McCann | Jul 10th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Just over 50 cities in the US have their own fiber networks and fewer than 100 have cable networks. Communities it seems, can’t compete with the private sector to provide broadband access to citizens in the United States. (
keep reading…)
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An expensive plan to redevelop the area surrounding the most defining feature of St. Louis claims to have pedestrian accessibility in mind. Why, then, does it call to eliminate crucial walkways? And why aren’t the local media vetting it accordingly? (keep reading…)
In our third post today on the State of the Union, Yonah Freemark of The Transport Politic assess the odds of to what extent infrastructure will improve on a national level this year. What he concludes isn’t promising: The Obama administration appears to have scaled back its plans. (keep reading…)
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 (keep reading…)
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? (keep reading…)
Speed bumps, street markings, speed limits and other measures have all been used to create safer conditions for all users of the road. But what about trees? (keep reading…)
Occupy Wall Street protesters are chasing the tail and not the head. Rising poverty and stagnant opportunities weren’t caused by financiers anymore than the hostage crisis was caused by President Carter. (keep reading…)
London’s Underground rail network is hugely popular with the city’s residents, carrying over 3 million passengers a day between its 270 stations. However, its iconic buses are even more widely used, transporting 6 million Londoners around the city every day. (keep reading…)
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. (keep reading…)
Over the weekend, a team of bicyclists beat an airplane from Burbank to Long Beach, California. The closely watched, 40-mile race was a thrilling climax to a story that’s been unfolding for weeks now. “Carmaggedon” — the weekend closure of the 405 freeway. (keep reading…)
Just over 50 cities in the US have their own fiber networks and fewer than 100 have cable networks. Communities it seems, can’t compete with the private sector to provide broadband access to citizens in the United States. (keep reading…)
