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  Driving Through Detroit

  Diana Lind | Thu, Aug 21st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Detroit | Tags: detroit, artists, detroit free press, urban renewal, palmer woods, demolition | 0

  One of the most-commented-on stories from Issue #19 of Next American City is Rob and Andy Linn’s take on demolition in Detroit. I recently came across an old piece by Bill McGraw of the Detroit Free Press where he drove 2,700 miles —every block of Detroit — during four months. In a five-part series, he explains that the city looks a lot worse — and better — than he thought.

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  Changing the City, One Organic Deli at a Time

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, gentrification, diana lind, organic deli | 0

  In a recent blog post about Philly’s ongoing self-hatred a discussion emerged about the appalling lack of activity on the 1300 Block of Walnut Street. In one of the formerly vacant storefronts, we’re now getting an organic deli. How much does one small change mean for a city of 1.5 million people? 

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  Denver: America’s Great Urban Canvas, Part II (A Temporary Sidetrack to Decide How I Decide)

  Simmons Buntin | Tue, Aug 19th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Denver | Tags: simmons buntin, denver, civano, carolyn dooling | 2

  The second part of Simmons Buntin’s exploration of new, mixed-use projects in Denver sidetracks to explore just how he determines that these projects are, in fact, good development. His decision is still based, in part, on a list of 14 properties of sustainable redevelopment he created for his urban and regional planning graduate school thesis more than a decade ago.

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  Painting the Town Pink

  Kathryn Kondracki | Mon, Aug 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, art, kat kondracki, trash, garbage, catherine kolnaski magnet school, garbage bags, renee mlynaryk, adrian kondratowicz | 0

  Artist Adrian Kondratowicz gives the standard trash bag a makeover. The bags raise environmental awareness but also cost a pretty penny. Fashionable or for real?

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  Made in America

  Hamida Kinge | Sun, Aug 17th, 2008 | Category: Interviews | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, brooklyn, sports, music, violence, prison, filmmaking, documentary, neighborhoods, skateboarding, gangs | 1

  Stacy Peralta, former skateboarding icon turned documentary filmmaker, spent 15 years wanting to make the film that eventually became Made In America. An examination of gang life in South Central, Los Angeles, the film combines historic footage and interviews with current and former gang members, as well as activists and experts. Next American City’s Hamida Kinge recently called Peralta at his Los Angeles home to discuss the film, Los Angeles, gangs and racial inequity.

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  L.A. City Council Turns Fast Food Into a Zoning Issue

  Brian Krier | Fri, Aug 15th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, brian krier, obesity, city council, public health, fast food, food zoning, jan perry, food desert | 3

  In a unanimous vote on July 29, the Los Angeles City Council approved a one-year moratorium on the opening of new fast food establishments in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Was the council acting in its constituents’ best interests or did the city extend itself too far into the lives of its residents?

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  Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

  Ray Hainer | Thu, Aug 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: traffic, traffic, freakonomics, freakonomics, army ants, tom vanderbilt, tom vanderbilt, slate.com, slate.com | 2

  Tom Vanderbilt’s breezy new book, Traffic, looks at the science and humanity of driving, and asks why people can’t get along on the road.

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• NAC News

  Next American City Heads to Milwaukee!

  Pooja Shah | Wed, Aug 13th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, diana lind, pooja shah, 24:hrs, university of wisconsin - milwaukee | 0

  Next American City is planning a four-day visit to Milwaukee where we will bring you a symposium, subscriber party, university visits and a 24:Hrs!

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  Would You Like a Coffee with That Bike Repair?

  Kathryn Kondracki | Wed, Aug 13th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Madison | Tags: kat kondracki, bicycling, trek bicycle corporation, machinery row bicycles, wisconsin, trek shop | 1

  Machinery Row Bicycles and Trek Bicycle Corporation join together to bring Madison, Wisc. bikers roadside assistance 24 hours a day.

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  D.C. Metro Purple Line: Yes Or No?

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, suburbs, transit, green, construction, metro, 2008, development, maryland, suburb, amtrak, trains, planning, neighborhoods, martin o'malley, purple line | 8

  Connecting D.C. area suburbs with a new Metro line will be complicated. Lawsuits and local politics have delayed the proposed Purple Line connection between Bethesda, Silver springs and New Carrollton.

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  Dark Sky to City Dwellers: Get Lost

  Diana Lind | Mon, Aug 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, diana lind, university of pennsylvania, perseids, clark park, astronomy, brandywine state park | 3

  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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  Op-ed Flashback: Adding Accountability To Eminent Domain

  Next American City | Fri, Aug 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: eminent domain, urban renewal, new london, fort trumbull, annie lux | 0

  Annie Lux describes New London’s use of eminent domain in the 1960s and its use to reclaim the same land four decades later.

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  MoMA’s Home Delivery: A Disappointment

  Diana Lind | Wed, Aug 6th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: architecture, diana lind, moma, home delivery, prefab | 0

  MoMA’s big summer show is called Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. If this is the future of architecture, I regrettably have to say I want no part of it.

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  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, ariella cohen, cafe du monde, frenchman street, next urban summit, cab drivers | 1

  What’s New Orleans like these days? It depends on who you ask.I went down to New Orleans for the Next Urban Summit expecting to see a city in tatters. Instead, I found that NOLA looks better than I’d ever seen it before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
  

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  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, ariella cohen, cafe du monde, frenchman street, next urban summit, cab drivers | 0

  What’s New Orleans like these days? It depends on who you ask.I went down to New Orleans for the Next Urban Summit expecting to see a city in tatters. Instead, I found that NOLA looks better than I’d ever seen it before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
  

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  A Region on the Brink: the Southern Intermountain West

  Brian Krier | Mon, Aug 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: growth, arizona, brian krier, immigration, brookings institution, megaregions, southern intermountain west, colorado, metropolitan places, western cities, report | 0

  Last week, the Brookings Institution released its latest report from its Blueprint for American Prosperity initiative. The report, entitled “Mountain Megas: America’s Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper,” highlights the Southern Intermountain West – a region developing at a rate presently unparalleled elsewhere in the country, bringing with it all the blessings and burdens of rapid growth.

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• Columnists

  Denver: America’s Great Urban Canvas, Part I

  Simmons Buntin | Mon, Aug 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Denver | Tags: tucson, simmons buntin, denver, new urbanism, civano, stapleton, town planning, boulder, prospect new town, neotraditional development, bradburn village, urban planning, longmont, westminster, modernist architecture | 2

  The metropolitan Denver area has become America’s greatest urban canvas, and a tour of some of the region’s New Urbanist neighborhoods demonstrates why. Join Simmons Buntin and his host, urban planner Carolyn Dooling, as they tour Stapleton in Denver, Bradburn Village in Westminster, and Prospect New Town in Longmont, discovering places with soul.

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  National Number of Homeless Drops Despite Foreclosure Crisis

  Kathryn Kondracki | Thu, Jul 31st, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: homeless, kat kondracki, michael stoops, hud, housing first, chronically homeless | 1

  The total number of homeless Americans drops approximately 12 percent, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development annual study. 

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• Columnists

  The Magical Museum?

  Dave Steele | Wed, Jul 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, calatrava, milwaukee art museum | 4

  Seven years after the opening of a bold cultural icon, how much has the Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum changed the Brew City? How much can any one building really change a city?

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• Columnists

  Nuisance Abatement!

  Jeremy Rosenberg | Mon, Jul 28th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, jeremy rosenberg | 0

  South Los Angeles’ Community Coalition employs land use and licensing laws to take on and take down liquor stores and motels that make for bad neighbors.

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