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Nick Lalla | Dec 17th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Another questionable list-icle of American city rankings has popped up on CNN.com. This one seeks to rank American cities in terms of livabilty and seems a little…lifeless. (
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Nick Lalla | Dec 3rd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
The award ceremony for the 3rd Annual Ed Bacon Student Design Competition were handed out to teams of young urban planners last night, and focusing on food seemed to be the way to get the prize money. The winning entries after the jump. (
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Nick Lalla | Nov 24th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. |
Earlier this month Philadelphia’s Mayor Michael Nutter hand-delivered a letter to 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and signed by himself and the mayors of Atlanta and Phoenix. In it he asked for cities to be included alongside banks, financial institutions and automobile manufacturers as recipients of the $700 billion TARP bailout package. That afternoon, the story got top billing on the Drudge Report. Days later it got nothing but ignored and, at best, derided. So what happened? (
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Nick Lalla | Nov 12th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
Stop the presses! The (um) September issue of online magazine Triple Canopy is so good…it’s worth ignoring for two months and then rhapsodizing about, a few months too late. (
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Nick Lalla | Nov 10th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Chicago, New York, Philadelphia |
On the last day of October a district court found that New York City would have to put a hold on its plan to replace its city’s taxi cabs with hybrid cars. Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired back by invoking the threat that the court’s ruling would prevent “all cities” from taking their environment and health into their own hands. I talked with some experts to see how real the threat was. (
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Nick Lalla | Oct 24th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
This morning I went to the experts to see what the future held. What I found was some surprises from the past, a lot of questions about the future, opportunities for thought about the big election, and a new interest in Mexico City. Thoughts on the presentations of Dowell Myers, Douglas Masey, and Saskia Sassan after the jump. (
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Diana Lind | Oct 21st, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Nick Lalla | Oct 14th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Las Vegas |
Las Vegas — the fastest growing city in America — keeps changing in the strangest ways, and every new move gives us so much more to learn from, or at least to think about. (
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Nick Lalla | Sep 19th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. |
Travel and Leisure Magazine has published its findings of the traveler-rated
“best American cities” for 2008, and, like most of these kinds of lists, the results mostly include being forced to take a few moments to ponder the worth of such exercises. (
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