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Grassroutes | Yonah Freemark | Feb 20th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: West Coast | Cities: Seattle |
With divergent interest groups pushing in three different directions, who will decide how Seattle’s light rail system extends into Bellevue? (
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Diana Lind | Nov 23rd, 2009 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: Seattle |
Alex Steffen, over at Worldchanging.com, called for Seattle to be the country’s (the world’s?) first carbon-neutral city. Is this fantasy or a real possibility? (
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Akua Nyame-Mensah | Sep 25th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: Central | Cities: Boston, Detroit, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle |
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Next American City | Sep 15th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City , Seattle, Washington, D.C. |
Last Thursday, Next American City hosted a launch party for Issue 24, during which DJ Doug Sell played a collection of city-themed songs. Check out the music, and link to the iTunes playlist! (
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Urban Nation | Ben Adler | Jul 14th, 2009 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast | Cities: Seattle, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
The Obama Administration started talking up their urban policies on Monday. (
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Jody Pollock | Jan 27th, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
California’s capital city considers housing its many homeless in sanctioned “tent cities,” but some wonder whether this temporary fix will only exacerbate a long-term problem. (
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Ariella Cohen | Jan 1st, 2009 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Chicago, Miami, New York, Philadelphia |
Hoping to staunch the financial crisis’s toll on city dwellers, cities are creating offices of financial empowerment. Aimed at cities’ low- and moderate-income constituents, these programs attempt to break the cycle of debt and aid social mobility, even in these tough times. (
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Evan Miller | May 27th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Seattle |
It is an unfortunate truth that sex sells only because we buy it. With the women from the
HBO hit series “Sex and the City” knowing this truth all too well, the relationship between sex and cities across the country has caused many to ask where to draw the line.
The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. (
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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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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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With divergent interest groups pushing in three different directions, who will decide how Seattle’s light rail system extends into Bellevue? (keep reading…)
It is an unfortunate truth that sex sells only because we buy it. With the women from the HBO hit series “Sex and the City” knowing this truth all too well, the relationship between sex and cities across the country has caused many to ask where to draw the line. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. (keep reading…)
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…)
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…)
