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Diana Lind | Aug 18th, 2009 | Topic: Infrastructure, Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco |
The Trust for Public Land just released data on the 77 most populous cities’ parks. Think you know your park? It may be that time of year to think again. (
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Ben Adler | Feb 2nd, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Congress stripped $200 million from the stimulus spending bill that would have helped upgrade the National Mall. (
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Diana Lind | Jan 9th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New York |
A neuroscientist discusses how cities might be overstraining urbanites’ brains in an interesting New Hamshire public radio clip. Now that the majority of humans live in cities, will we just get dumber and more tired, or evolve and adjust? (
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Brian Krier | Aug 22nd, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco |
Between all the mammoth S.U.V.s, boxy minivans and compact cars, parallel parking in any city can be a nightmare. Come Sept. 19, drivers in cities around the world vying for curbside parking will also have to compete with potted plants, park benches and some clever environmental activists. (
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Evan Miller | May 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Seattle |
A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane?
The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. (
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A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane? The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. (keep reading…)
