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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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Worldwatch | Josh Leon | Oct 23rd, 2009 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
A new book called
Wrestling with Moses charts Jane Jacob’s quest to preserve the identity of Manhattan neighborhoods. To his own surprise, Josh Leon ended up siding with the book’s villain, Robert Moses. (
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Jun 3rd, 2009 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: Urban Nation |
Everyone is talking about New York’s transportation commissioner, but they should be looking at the suburbs. (
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Hamida Kinge | Feb 19th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Hamida Kinge interviews Columbia University’s Dickson Despommier, who says that “vertical farms” have the potential to feed the world’s growing population, provide food security and curb climate change from Manhattan to Mumbai. (
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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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Brendan Crain | Apr 8th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000. It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children. And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment? Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface. (
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Brendan Crain | Mar 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
The French city of Lyons is being reproduced on the outskirts of Dubai, presumably for the value of Lyons’ “cultural cachet.” Can something as ephemeral and elusive as the “sense of place” of Lyons be copied and pasted onto a desert thousands of miles from the original? Might it be possible that, in a world run by adults raised in virtual copies of real-world places refashioned, essentially, as brands, the wholesale reproduction of city neighborhoods could become commonplace around the world? (
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Hayley Richardson | Feb 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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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…)
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…)
The average American sees several thousands of advertisements each day—the most commonly accepted estimate is 3,000. It is no secret in our society that a large chunk of advertising and marketing efforts are directed at children ... Whether or not you think that advertising’s influence on young minds is positive or negative, no one can deny the fact that this massive onslaught of commercialism has some sort of effect, developmentally, on children. And, since these children will, in a generation or so, be reshaping our cities, how might these developmental changes effect the urban environment? Perhaps some clues are already rising to the surface. (keep reading…)
