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Mary Jones | Jul 9th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Economy, Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: |
The Santa Fe Railyard Redevelopment Project was a bold step for a small city of 70,000 people to undertake; bolder still was the extent to which the process allowed the public to influence planning and design.
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This Big City | Jul 7th, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Creating new Intelligent Cities is a grand plan that should be lauded but what if nobody wants to live in the cities you’ve created? (
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Theodore Brown | Jun 24th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Bike sharing is a fledgling concept in the United States and has the tendency to be scattershot geographically. Chicago, Minneapolis, and Des Moines have programs in the Midwest while shares in Miami, Boston, and Washington, D.C. dot the coastlines.
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Joann Plockova | Jun 23rd, 2011 | Topic: Culture, Economy, Built Environment | Region: Midwest | Cities: Detroit |
Power House Productions is working to help stabilize and revitalize a Detroit neighborhood through the arts and other cultural endeavors (
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Next American City | Jun 22nd, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Culture, Economy, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Life at the Speed of Rail explores how high-speed rail is a technology that could be as transformative as the interstate highway system. Competition entrants unearthed unique insight into how working together, the disciplines of design and policy could influence the fate of our country. (
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Theodore Brown | Jun 18th, 2011 | Topic: Governance, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Vogue isn’t a term that conjures up images of vast stretches of infrastructure perfected by years of engineering research and tinkering with delicate designs. How then do we explain the current vogue of high speed rail? (
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Next American City | Apr 4th, 2011 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Baltimore |
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Julia Ramey Serazio | Jan 10th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Jul 1st, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco |
In an era of tight public budgets, cities need all the help they can get. Crowdsourcing is one strategy that cities can adopt to enlist the help, knowledge and time of their citizens. Now, two examples from California are showing how such an effort can work to help create and maintain other public data sets. (
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Harry Moroz | Jun 15th, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Economy | Region: West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. |
A look at Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s 30/10 transit proposal, which, Harry Moroz says, combines cost-effectiveness and job creation with an ambitious challenge to Los Angeles’s auto addiction. (
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