Blogosphere: KC's Streetcar Strategy, Laws & LA Freeway Building, Road Load Balancing, Metro Agriculture, Gentrificationphobia
October 12, 2012
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| Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. |
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Blogosphere: Kansas City's Squabble Proof Streetcar DC Streetsblog If everything goes according to plan this election, Kansas City will be on track to build its first streetcar in under five years, from conceptual planning to first boarding... Read On |
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Blogosphere: What Led to LA's Freeway Building Frenzy Planetizen Jeremy Rosenberg's latest entry in his "Laws That Shaped LA" column looks at the impact of the Collier-Burns Act, a state law passed in 1947 that allowed the city to become "smothered with concrete and asphalt goliaths.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Privatizing Amtrak, No Better Service CAHSR Blog Amtrak ridership is at record highs, so how do Republicans react? By calling for the trains to be privatized. But despite their ideological claims, privatization won't do much at all to improve service on the trains, a lesson that we should heed as we move ahead with high speed rail... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Liberal Argument for Privatizing Transit Radials Blog Access is important here at Radials. We've argued that lack of transit options in major metropolitan areas is a major contributing factor to urban poverty and plays a role in the uneven distribution of economic opportunities between neighborhoods in cities... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is Rail Transit Investment at Risk? Progressive Railroading Conventional wisdom and the partisan rhetoric suggest that a Democratic-controlled Senate and administration - and possibly House, if the power shifts - would be more likely to push for increased transportation investment in general, and rail transportation in particular, many observers say... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Road Load Balancing Transportationist Road pricing has been unsuccessful because it is framed wrong. I say it is unsuccessful because it is not widely adopted, despite being a policy proposal on the table for decades, despite its widespread support among transport economists. Unfortunately, it is perceived (by drivers) as punitive... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
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Blogosphere: Metro Agriculture, One Size Doesn't Fit All ASLA Dirt S, M, L, or XL-sized metropolitan agriculture? Mia Lehrer, FASLA, Mia Lehrer + Associates, said one size definitely doesn't fit all when it comes to cities, in a session at the ASLA 2012 Annual Meeting... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Geography of Working from Home Atlantic Cities Aided by internet technologies like Skype and Dropbox, more Americans than ever before are choosing to forgo formal offices in favor of working from home... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Healthy Buildings, Green or Both? Polis Blog According to the United Nations Environment Programme, buildings account for approximately 40 percent of worldwide energy use and are responsible for 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Coke Launches Pop Up Dining Room Pop Up City Coca-Cola is known for its always surprising marketing campaigns. This time the Atlanta-based producer of the sugary black gold joined forces with the Italian TV-chef Simone Rugiati to promote eating together with friends or family... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is Your City Suffering Gentrificationphobia Planetizen Matthew Yglesias diagnoses a common predicament facing many urban communities: the fear that improving living conditions is a bad thing... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Excessive Localism of Urban Planning Slate It seems like a question with an obvious answer. City streets are owned by the city, which is to say the public, and access to them should be managed in the broad public interest... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Pre-Columbian Urbanism Urban Indy On October 12, 1492, the first modern Europeans set foot in the land now known as the Americas. We tend to think of urbanism arriving with them. But the truth is that cities rose well before "Columbus sailed the ocean blue". I wanted to share a few that exemplified the type of urban design happening in Pre-Columbian North America... Read On |
