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Yonah Freemark | Jan 16th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: Midwest | Cities: Detroit |
Detroit seemed on track for building a light rail line to serve one of its main commercial strips. But city leaders backtracked in favor of improving the buses that connect Detroit to its suburbs. Yonah Freemark explains why, at this stage of the process, the change in priorities is a bad idea. (
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Matt Bevilacqua | Next American City | Jan 11th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure, Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Many building owners have been skeptical of investing in energy retrofits because they don’t know if sustainability pays off — until now. Could a new report from Deustche Bank be a game changer in the sustainability, retrofits and finance worlds? (
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Streetsblog | Jan 7th, 2012 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: | Cities: Seattle |
Located on a pair of peninsulas, the city of Seattle isn’t so easy to reach from its eastern suburbs. Only two bridges cross Lake Washington. Newly-installed tolls across one of the two, the SR-520 bridge, have the potential to seriously reshape travel patterns in the region.
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Alex Ihnen| nextSTL | Dec 29th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: Midwest | Cities: St. Louis |
At the end of the year, Alex Ihnen of NextSTL.com sparked debate about an urban highway running through St. Louis’ downtown. (
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Frank Fuller | Dec 21st, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure | Region: West Coast | Cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco |
Next American City counts down its most provocative pieces of web journalism in 2011. Here’s one from March that looks at designing high-speed rail in cities. (
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Alex Ihnen| nextSTL | Dec 1st, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Built Environment | Region: Midwest | Cities: St. Louis |
The St. Louis Arch, a memorial to Thomas Jefferson and the westward expansion of the United States, is crucial to the city’s identity. But a highway and a “crushing maze of infrastructure” separate the city, arch, and riverfront. Now there’s a chance to rethink the highway — will St. Louis take it? (
keep reading…)
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Gordon Feller, Cisco IBSG Public Sector Practice | Nov 28th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance | Region: | Cities: |
The Internet has become the very fabric of human evolution and communication. Shouldn’t all citizens of the world have a right to partake of it? (
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Maxim Nasab | Nov 26th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
What if you were asked to live on a bridge? Would you ponder the question for a moment or refuse without hesitation? Architecture has become a seemingly limitless field, propelled ever further into our imagined future by new technology. Unfortunately bridges remain, at best, in the rearview (
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Sarah Fine | Nov 16th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Economy, Built Environment | Region: West Coast | Cities: |
Chances are you heard about Occupy protestors in Oakland and Washington, D.C. being struck by cars two weeks ago—a Mercedes and a Lexus, respectively. But did you hear about the Hummer in Oakland? Or the Toyota truck that drove through a general assembly at the port? (
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Mike Lydon | Oct 4th, 2011 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Culture, Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Small-scale incremental interventions are increasingly viewed as an economical way to instigate positive change in the built environment. This approach, called tactical urbanism, is the subject of the first Tactical Urbanism Salon, to be held on October 15, 2011, in New York City. (
keep reading…)
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Detroit seemed on track for building a light rail line to serve one of its main commercial strips. But city leaders backtracked in favor of improving the buses that connect Detroit to its suburbs. Yonah Freemark explains why, at this stage of the process, the change in priorities is a bad idea. (keep reading…)
Many building owners have been skeptical of investing in energy retrofits because they don’t know if sustainability pays off — until now. Could a new report from Deustche Bank be a game changer in the sustainability, retrofits and finance worlds? (keep reading…)
Located on a pair of peninsulas, the city of Seattle isn’t so easy to reach from its eastern suburbs. Only two bridges cross Lake Washington. Newly-installed tolls across one of the two, the SR-520 bridge, have the potential to seriously reshape travel patterns in the region. (keep reading…)
At the end of the year, Alex Ihnen of NextSTL.com sparked debate about an urban highway running through St. Louis’ downtown. (keep reading…)
Next American City counts down its most provocative pieces of web journalism in 2011. Here’s one from March that looks at designing high-speed rail in cities. (keep reading…)
The St. Louis Arch, a memorial to Thomas Jefferson and the westward expansion of the United States, is crucial to the city’s identity. But a highway and a “crushing maze of infrastructure” separate the city, arch, and riverfront. Now there’s a chance to rethink the highway — will St. Louis take it? (keep reading…)
The Internet has become the very fabric of human evolution and communication. Shouldn’t all citizens of the world have a right to partake of it? (keep reading…)
What if you were asked to live on a bridge? Would you ponder the question for a moment or refuse without hesitation? Architecture has become a seemingly limitless field, propelled ever further into our imagined future by new technology. Unfortunately bridges remain, at best, in the rearview (keep reading…)
Chances are you heard about Occupy protestors in Oakland and Washington, D.C. being struck by cars two weeks ago—a Mercedes and a Lexus, respectively. But did you hear about the Hummer in Oakland? Or the Toyota truck that drove through a general assembly at the port? (keep reading…)
Small-scale incremental interventions are increasingly viewed as an economical way to instigate positive change in the built environment. This approach, called tactical urbanism, is the subject of the first Tactical Urbanism Salon, to be held on October 15, 2011, in New York City. (keep reading…)
