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Amy Smith | Mar 2nd, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Austin, Philadelphia |
NAC’s Amy Smith writes about her work at a Philadelphia soup kitchen, and how her experience there has changed her view of hunger in America’s cities. (
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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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Michelle Kuly | Nov 7th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Check out up-to-the-minute posts from our “Reimagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil” correspondents Lloyd Alter (
TreeHugger and
Planet Green), Ryan Avent (
Grist), Nate Berg (
Planetizen), Andrew Blum (
Metropolis and
Wired), Randy Crane (UCLA School of Public Affairs) and Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson (
New York Times Magazine,
Architect, and
Metropolis), all right
here. (
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Nick Lalla | Oct 28th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia |
This weekend I attended a University of Pennsylvaia Institute for Urban Research conference called “The Shape of the New American City.” It started with academics and city employees quietly discussing new research on urban density and market trends. It drew to a close with Chris Matthews fielding a sea of energetic questions about Sarah Palin and Joe Six-Pack. Here, I try to figure out what it all means. (
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Diana Lind | Aug 11th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Tonight’s the peak of the Perseid’s meteor shower, but I can’t watch it from my backyard in Philly. Let’s lament together the city’s lack of access to nighttime nature. (
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Hayley Richardson | Mar 25th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
Geoff Manaugh, the puppeteer behind the much-loved
BLDGBLOG and purveyor of all things speculative, spoke Friday at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. He regaled the crowd with tales from the landscape future, in a lecture that was akin to a mad dash through the head of a child who’s interested in everything, and won’t be deterred by practical constraints. (
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Hayley Richardson | Dec 19th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Hayley Richardson | Oct 15th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Miami |
Over the weekend, I went home with the latest issue of
The Next American City, which featured a special report on crime in the United States. (
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NAC’s Amy Smith writes about her work at a Philadelphia soup kitchen, and how her experience there has changed her view of hunger in America’s cities. (keep reading…)
Geoff Manaugh, the puppeteer behind the much-loved BLDGBLOG and purveyor of all things speculative, spoke Friday at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. He regaled the crowd with tales from the landscape future, in a lecture that was akin to a mad dash through the head of a child who’s interested in everything, and won’t be deterred by practical constraints. (keep reading…)
