News: American Wall Map, Policies & Foreclosure, Urban Development Politics, Phoenix Transit Plan, End Of California Redevelopment Agencies
January 3, 2012
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| Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news. The Chatter, commentary and opposition articles will be found towards the bottom. |
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National: Best American Wall Map You've Never Seen Slate (via Mike L) American mapmaking's most prestigious honor is the "Best of Show" award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps designed by large, well-known institutions: National Geographic (three times), the Central Intelligence Agency Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau... Read On |
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Research: Local Policies and the Forclosure Crisis Urban Affairs Review Can local governments shape the long-run fortunes of their communities through their own policies, or is the autonomy of localities swamped by larger macroeconomic forces?.. Read On |
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Research: Politics of Urban Development Urban Affairs Review How does the new institutional ecology of city politics structure opportunities for urban growth? We draw on policy agendas theory to explore two central aspects of this question.. Read On |
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Research: Impact of Res Growth on Vehicle Emissions Journal of Transportation and Land Use In light of the increasing reliance on compact growth as a fundamental strategy for reducing vehicle emissions, it is important to better understand how land use-transportation interactions influence the production of mobile source emissions... Read On |
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Research: Residence/Workplace Areas and Commuting Journal of Transportation and Land Use Area type matters when we try to explain variations in public transit commuting; workplace (commuting destination) type matters more than residence (origin) type. We found this statistical link over a sample of all census tracts in the four largest California metropolitan areas: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento... Read On |
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Phoenix: Area 20 Year Transit Plan Progresses Arizona Republic A state audit found general success in the first five years of the Valley's 20-year transportation plan but recommended that regional transportation officials improve their documentation of the plan's progress... Read On |
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California: State OK's Redev Agency Abolishion San Francisco Chronicle The California Supreme Court dealt a deathblow to the state's 60-year-old redevelopment program, ruling Thursday that lawmakers had the authority to eliminate the economic development program and striking down a law that would have allowed the agencies to exist in smaller form... Read On |
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Ottawa: City Wants to Make Transit Life Easy Ottawa Citizen The city is about to move into high gear on redevelopment plans for the neighbourhoods around three stations in the eastern stretch of the planned light-rail line, with major rezonings to come at four more within a couple of years... Read On |
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Bay Area: Hercules to Put More Money into Project San Jose Mercury News Scrambling to hold on to several million dollars of state grants that are close to expiring, financially battered Hercules is set to pour an additional $200,000 into its ambitious but delay-plagued waterfront transit center project... Read On |
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Los Angeles: The Future of Hollywood Los Angeles Times On a blustery recent morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, City Council President Eric Garcetti and Councilman Tom LaBonge held a rooftop news conference in the heart of Hollywood... Read On |
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National: GOP Hopefuls Past Support for HSR New York Times President Obama's program to bring bullet trains to the United States has been left on life support by the strident opposition of Republicans in Congress and in statehouses around the nation... Read On |
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International: China Punishes 54 Officials Over Crash Business Week China pledged to fix design flaws blamed for a high-speed rail crash last July and punish the officials responsible, as the government released the results of an investigation that sought to allay criticism of how the accident was handled... Read On |
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California: Redev Agencies Want Some Powers Back Los Angeles Times Days after the California Supreme Court moved to shut down about 400 municipal redevelopment agencies, local officials are scrambling to convince the same Legislature that abolished the agencies to resurrect some of their spending powers... Read On |
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California: Unlikely Group Against Preservation Districts New York Times (via Rebuilding Urban Place) Susan Beckstead stepped out of her sky-blue, three-story classical revival Victorian on Pierce Street - the one with bay windows, dentil and egg-and-dart molding, a modillion cornice and balustrade-lined flat roof - to show a visitor around her 120-year-old neighborhood bordering Duboce Park in central San Francisco. .. Read On |
