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  24:Hrs Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Wed, Nov 19th, 2008 | Category: 24Hrs | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, manpower, vietnam war, boat ride, harley davidson, hmong, wolski's | 0

  Our man in Milwaukee gives a fuller re-cap of the 24:Hrs Milwaukee tour. Highlights include:a walking tour, a boat ride, dancing, closing Wolski’s and waiting an extra hour for the sun to rise. 

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  The Digital Divide in Houston: Now What?

  Holly Otterbein | Tue, Nov 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Houston | Tags: philadelphia, john street, digital divide, wi-fi, houston, hot city, municipal wireless, helen hwang, houston digital inclusion initiative | 0

  First, Houston planned for a “cloud” of free wireless to blanket the entire city. When that didn’t work, it settled for small “bubbles” of wireless in certain neighborhoods. The Houston Chronicle recently reported that it, too, did not pan out. What’s next — a “nanopocket” accessible only to molecules? 

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• Columnists

  The New Orleans Biennial

  Ariella Cohen | Mon, Nov 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, ariella cohen, ariella cohen, mel chin, kirsha kaechele, wangeshi mutu, dan cameron, biennale, peter nadin, prospect one | 0

  New Orleans is a hard city for good ideas.  It’s not that there is a lack of them, just the opposite. The city is full of good ideas — ideas that are never implemented. It’s a city full of displaced dreamers, talented people who come from all over to a place where success as it is defined elsewhere is overshadowed by indigenous social markers most often involving whiskey and parades.

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  Commercial Decline on Mount Pleasant Street

  Ben Adler | Mon, Nov 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Brooklyn | Tags: news, economy, brooklyn, gentrification, washington post, latino, ben adler, mount pleasant, washington, d.c. | 2

  The Washington Post reports that my neighborhood, Mount Pleasant is suffering from a plague of shuttered storefronts on its commercial strip, Mount Pleasant Street. Although it was roughly equal parts white, black and Latino in the last census, it appears the population is changing.

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• Headlines

  Meraki Offers Municipalities a $10,000 Deal

  Helen I. Hwang | Fri, Nov 14th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: san francisco, sanjit biswas, helen i. hwang, municipal wi-fi, meraki, plug-and-play technology | 2

  It’s a limited-time offer, as they say, for cities to get a municipal Wi-Fi start.

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• The Daily Report

  Holiday Party + Issue 21 Release Celebration

  Pooja Shah | Thu, Nov 13th, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, next american city, 21, holiday party, issue release | 0

  Join Next American CIty for a holiday celebration as we unveil Issue 21!

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• The Daily Report

  URBANEXUS LA: Mark Vallianatos’ Farmlab Speech

  Benjamin Gilbert | Wed, Nov 12th, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, neighborhoods, mark vallianatos, farmlab, urbanexus, fast-food ban | 0

  On Oct. 31, Next American City and over 100 guests explored Los Angeles’ hidden gem, Farmlab. The afternoon lunch, courtesy of Farmlab, included a spread of fresh foods and vegetables including some ingredients - cactus and bananas - grown on the premises! Occidental College’s Mark Vallianatos then took attendees through a brief history of food in Los Angeles, highlighting some of the key conversations at the moment including the lack of affordable fresh food in several neighborhoods, the demand for schools to offer healthy alternatives and the recent fast food ban.

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• Columnists

  Obama Team Announces Office of Urban Policy

  Ben Adler | Wed, Nov 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: barack obama, chicago, michael bloomberg, miami, ben adler, rahm emmanuel, anthony williams, adrian fenty | 5

  While he first floated the idea of a cabinet position to coordinate urban policy at the annual conference of mayors in Miami this past summer, now Obama has promised action. 

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  URBANEXUS LA: A+D Slideshow

  Benjamin Gilbert | Wed, Nov 12th, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, los angeles times, mark vallianatos, farmlab, urbanexus, sam lubell, the architect's newspaper, christopher hawthorne, a+d museum | 0

  On Oct. 29, nearly 50 guests attended the salon at the A+D Museum to discuss the challenges of developing built environment in LA. Our guests - Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times and Sam Lubell of The Architect’s Newspaper - shared their own perspectives as guests questioned the pros and cons of architecture in their own neighborhoods.

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  Triple Canopy Nails NOLA Mania

  Nick Lalla | Wed, Nov 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New Orleans | Tags: new orleans, hurricane katrina, nick lalla, ray nagin, triple canopy, brian rosa, gray line, disaster tourism, september 11th, mardi gras | 2

  Stop the presses! The (um) September issue of online magazine Triple Canopy is so good...it’s worth ignoring for two months and then rhapsodizing about, a few months too late.

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  California’s Lesser-Known Proposition

  Holly Otterbein | Tue, Nov 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Los Angeles | Tags: barack obama, los angeles, california, france, holly otterbein, gov. arnold schwarzenegger, proposition 1a, spain, bullet train | 0

  Last Tuesday, Californians voted to build a high-speed bullet train that will connect the state’s major cities. It’s costing them $10 billion.
  

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  New Yorkers Found to be Breathing American Air, Mayor Gasps

  Nick Lalla | Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: new york, michael bloomberg, gavin newsom, nick lalla, richard m. daley, philadelphia office of sustainability, environmental defense fund, environmental pollution control act, preemtion, greening, mayors | 1

  On the last day of October a district court found that New York City would have to put a hold on its plan to replace its city’s taxi cabs with hybrid cars. Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired back by invoking the threat that the court’s ruling would prevent “all cities” from taking their environment and health into their own hands. I talked with some experts to see how real the threat was.

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• Columnists

  Welcome to Washington

  Ben Adler | Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, barack obama, gentrification, washington dc, maryland, virginia, ben adler, politico, nancy pelosi, hiv/aids | 3

  Next American City’s first Urban Leaders Fellow, Ben Adler, will be periodically commenting on Washington, D.C. In his first column, he gives a quick tour of the land.

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• The Daily Report

  Sharing the Road

  Holly Otterbein | Mon, Nov 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: new york city, philadelphia, transportation, traffic, bikes, urban design, holly otterbein, bike lanes | 0

  In the “Designing the 21st Century Street” competition, architects and urban designers reconstructed a troubled intersection in Brooklyn. Other cities could benefit from adopting the winners’ proposals, which treat pedestrians, bikes and cars as equals.

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  LIVEBLOG from “Re-imagining Cities” Underway

  Michelle Kuly | Fri, Nov 7th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Philadelphia | Tags: diana lind, university of pennsylvania, jane jacobs, nate berg, reimagining cities, urban design after the age of oil, elizabeth evitts dickinson, randy crane, andrew blum, elizabeth kolbert, judith rodin, ryan avent, penn institute for urban research, rockefeller foundation, design after oil, peter head, liveblog, himanshu parikh, penn design, lloyd alter | 1

  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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• Columnists

  Tackling a Leviathan in Texas

  Hamida Kinge | Fri, Nov 7th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Houston | Tags: hamida kinge, houston, bill white, benzene, environmental justice, lyondell, oil refineries, vocs, haps | 0

  Houston’s Mayor Bill White has taken on local oil refineries and chemical plants. He’s now fighting for environmental justice — and the health of his city. 

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  Will Obama Change our Cities?

  Josh Leon | Wed, Nov 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Chicago | Tags: barack obama, infrastructure, john mccain, chicago, george w. bush, chris matthews, martin luther king jr, rick pearlstein, the white house, north philadelphia | 0

  In a brief word — yes. But Obama’s plan for cities needs to be even more robust. Next American City Columnist Josh Leon looks at what this election means for cities.

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  Yes!

  Diana Lind | Wed, Nov 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: barack obama, infrastructure, transit, sprawl, amtrak, joe biden, bridges, new deal, levees | 1

  Barack Obama (city) + Joe Biden (transit) = awesomeness for American cities

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  Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil

  Benjamin Gilbert | Tue, Nov 4th, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Philadelphia | Tags: nate berg, treehugger, re-imagining cities, urban design after the age of oil, elizabeth evitts dickinson, randy crane, andrew blum, ryan avent, penn institute for urban research, grist, metropolis | 0

  This Thursday, Friday and Saturday the UPenn School of Design and the Penn Institute for Urban Research will play host to the first annual symposium titled ”Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil.”

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• Columnists

  Green Drinks NYC

  Hamida Kinge | Mon, Nov 3rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: New York | Tags: sustainability, hamida kinge, margaret lydecker, green drinks nyc, mcgraw-hill, green is good | 2

  At Green Drinks, the environment and cocktails get stirred together, not shaken. The informal monthly networking event is where people working in the green sector share a glass with those who simply care for the welfare of the environment and talk sustainability shop. 

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