Blogosphere: Transit Patent Troll, Zoning & Streetcars, Affordable Housing & TOD In UK, Summer Urban Reading
September 19, 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: Reprieve from Transit Patent Troll Greater Greater Washington Any transit agencies around the nation who haven't yet gotten sued by patent troll ArrivalStar might be in luck. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found prior art which may prove the patent invalid, and has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to reexamine the patent. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Local Alternative to CRC Human Transit Many cities have eternal debates about a Massive Transportation Project, debates that can go on for so long that the debate itself feels like a piece of infrastructure... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Don't Forget Zoning With Streetcars Transport Politic Streetcar projects promise new development along their rights-of-way. But cities must allow new transit-oriented buildings to be built nearby. A look at St. Louis and Portland... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Affordable Housing, TOD, and the UK At Lincoln House Armando Carbonell and Peter Pollock have just returned from the National Community Land Trust Network conference in Burlington, Vermont, meeting with nearly 300 members on the model of nonprofit organizations holding title to land to preserve its long-term availability for affordable housing and other community uses... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Get Kids Excited About Cities w Minecraft Atlantic Cities I'm not exactly sure when I realized that Minecraft was a thing, but it was sometime in the last three or four months, when suddenly my 10-year-old son and all his friends became obsessed with it. Now, Minecraft seems to be everywhere I look... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is Bay Area Stagnating Under Zoning? CAHSR Blog I saw Matt Yglesias's post on Los Angeles's transit expansion get passed around a lot online yesterday. It seems as if everybody's writing their "omg LA is building huge amounts of transit!" post, and that's great.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Summer Reading for Urban Leaders Huffington Post It may be a bit harder to get through multiple books now that the summer is ending, but for urban leaders, three recent books are worth reading even after Labor Day. Each offers some provocative insight about what's happening in American cities, why, and what we might do about it... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities Should Focus on Housing Guardian UK Whether it's plan A or B, there is consensus across the political spectrum about one thing: the nation's search for elusive economic growth must have cities at its heart... Read On |
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Blogosphere: A Fiscal Cons Anti-Sprawl Manifesto NRDC Switchboard I don't know that I was the first national writer to notice Chuck Marohn's Strong Towns family of web sites and enterprises, including a very good blog. But I know I was early since, in Chuck's new book, Thoughts on Building Strong Towns (Volume 1), he says he started writing the blog in 2009 and that's when his work also makes its first appearance in my own writing... Read On |
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Blogosphere: "Wild Man" in Alaska's Urban Center The Nature of Cities I have been getting quite the education on "The Nature of Cities" these past few months, while taking in the perspectives of academics, ecologists, naturalists, architects and urban designers, educators, and conservationists (some contributors wearing several hats)... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Moving to Eliminate Energy Consumption Metropolis Magazine When you compare those states that consume the most energy with those that consume the least, something jumps out at you. The states topping the list in terms of BTU per year are also the most populated states in the country: CA, TX, NY, FL, IL, PA and OH... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cox - Problem with 2011 Census Allocations New Geography This is by far the most difficult article I have ever had to write. I have been a fan of the US Bureau of the Census since I began following its numbers in the second grade. Much of my career has been spent analyzing these numbers and those of similar national statistical bureaus around the world... Read On |
