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Julia Ramey Serazio | Feb 16th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
The
New York Times asks five financial experts to predict the city’s economic future, providing plenty of fodder for optimists and pessimists alike.
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Ben Adler | Jan 13th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
The Catholic school population in New York City is dropping precipitously, but why? (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jan 5th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
Architectural Record‘s editor in chief, Robert Ivy, and deputy editor, Clifford Pearson, offer their answers to the four pressing questions for the new year. (
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Nov 10th, 2008 | Topic: Urban Nation | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Next American City’s first Urban Leaders Fellow, Ben Adler, will be periodically commenting on Washington, D.C. In his first column, he gives a quick tour of the land. (
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Holly Otterbein | Nov 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York, Philadelphia |
In the “Designing the 21st Century Street” competition, architects and urban designers reconstructed a troubled intersection in Brooklyn. Other cities could benefit from adopting the winners’ proposals, which treat pedestrians, bikes and cars as equals. (
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Nate Berg | Nov 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
When addressing urban problems and climate change impacts, some officials say city management may be even more important than city design, which is interesting to hear at a conference about urban design. (
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Next American City | Aug 18th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
Artist Adrian Kondratowicz gives the standard trash bag a makeover. The bags raise environmental awareness but also cost a pretty penny. Fashionable or for real? (
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Next American City | Jul 25th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
Transportation Alternatives, a New York City-based advocacy group for walking, bicycling, and public transit, encourages the public to register in a complete street design competition.
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Brian Krier | Jun 18th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announce the pedestrian and bicycle-friendly initiative, Summer Streets. Kathryn Kondracki reports. (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Jun 9th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
As Karen Heller writes today on Philly.com — Philadelphia leads the country in percentage of citizens incarcerated. Read on to find out why prisons are a booming industry, how many grams of cocaine you could fit in a sugar packet, and why keeping a prisoner in jail is about the cost of a year’s tuition at a fancy college. (
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In the “Designing the 21st Century Street” competition, architects and urban designers reconstructed a troubled intersection in Brooklyn. Other cities could benefit from adopting the winners’ proposals, which treat pedestrians, bikes and cars as equals. (keep reading…)
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announce the pedestrian and bicycle-friendly initiative, Summer Streets. Kathryn Kondracki reports. (keep reading…)
As Karen Heller writes today on Philly.com — Philadelphia leads the country in percentage of citizens incarcerated. Read on to find out why prisons are a booming industry, how many grams of cocaine you could fit in a sugar packet, and why keeping a prisoner in jail is about the cost of a year’s tuition at a fancy college. (keep reading…)
