Blogosphere: Silicon Valley Shuttles, Sustainable Transpo, Urban Farming, Missed TOD Opportunity, Africa Urbanizing
October 3, 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: Silicon Valley Shuttles, Revealed Human Transit This map by Stamen Design shows the paths of the various Silicon Valley bus services that flood San Francisco each morning and evening peak.(Linewidth is proportional to frequency.).. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Sustainable Transpo Top Down? Atlantic Cities The words "sustainable" and "transportation" don't really fit together too well here in the U.S. For the most part, the transportation scene in America is dominated by people driving cars everywhere they go, often alone... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Can Schumer Power Gateway Tunnel Second Avenue Sagas Six years ago, when the Democrats rode a mid-term election sweep into control of the House and Senate. At the time, Chuck Schumer, New York's then and current senior senator, pledged infrastructure dollars for New York State, and thus, the Second Ave. Subway - and this site - were born... Read On |
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Commentary: A Streetcar on Charles Street? Baltimore Sun Most who ride the St. Charles Avenue streetcar through New Orleans' Garden District are immediately smitten, not only by the city's charm but also by the convenience and nostalgia of the historic trolley... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Capping Light Rail Line in STL Urban Review STL Yesterday I posted about moving the Union Station MetroLink platform into the former baggage tunnel (see The Union Station MetroLink Stop Should Be Moved Under The Train Shed), my reasoning was improved connection to Union Station... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Urban Farming for Cynics Edible Geography On page sixty of Sarah Rich's new(ish) book, Urban Farms, she quotes Mary Seton Corboy, founder of Greensgrow in North Philadelphia, saying, "Urban agriculture is part of the solution but a darn small one.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Aestheticians and Cartographers Today Axis Maps Sometime around 2006, when everyone and their grandma started cranking out terrible Google Maps mashups, the Cartography world soiled its collective underpants as it looked like the once specialized profession was about to become obsolete... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Prince George's Doesn't Get TOD Urban Places and Spaces Matt Johnson has a post, "Greenbelt sector plan defeats its own walkability goals," at GGW about how the proposed new Greenbelt sector plan, despite saying the right things about transit oriented development--the Greenbelt Metro Station is the northern end of the Green line... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why Losing Google Maps is a Good Thing The Atlantic Cities George Aye describes it as something like the "phantom limb phenomenon": that eerie sensation when, instinctively, he continues to reach for Google Maps to navigate Chicago's public transit, even though the app was scrubbed from his iPhone last week, when he upgraded to iOS 6... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Feds Fellow the Crowd with HUD Next American City Here at Next American City, we've devoted quite a bit of coverage to civic tech that uses crowd-sourcing for everything from funding local projects to drafting a citywide comprehensive plan to repurposing an abandoned house as a giant ball pit... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Uneven Geo of US Economic Growth The Atlantic Cities Turns out the United States economy grew substantially more slowly than initially estimated between April and June of this year, a torpid 1.3 percent. Lagging growth is not just a short-term problem... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Africa Urbanizing, Not How You Think The Atlantic Cities The stats are pretty clear: the world's population is increasingly concentrating in urban areas. A recent report from the United Nations estimates that the global urban population will grow from its 2011 level of 3.6 billion people to more than 6.3 billion by 2050... Read On |
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Blogosphere: How Bruce Ratner Just Rolled Brooklyn New York Observer "We did it!" developer Bruce Ratner crowed a reported 14 times at the opening of his new Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn this weekend... Read On |
