Urban Issues: Nashville's Symphony Trouble, Stockton Housing Bubble, Housing Discrimination, Seattle Housing & Rail
June 12, 2013
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Nashville's Symphony In Trouble
The Urbanophile
Nashville has been on a roll in recent years, with a rapidly growing population (including a rapidly expanding immigrant base), robust job growth (#1 among large cities in 2012 on a percentage basis), and lots of positive national press.
Urbanism&Design: Urban Beauty & Value, Royal Pedestrian Treatment, Walkability & Loan Default, Big Box Taxpayer Costs
June 4, 2013
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Urban Planning Brings Beauty, Value
Tampa Bay Times
Don't underestimate the economic power of ugliness. And don't try to tell me that good urban planning can't help prevent it.
Urbanism & Design: Security Trumps Urbanism In NY, Charlotte Streetcar Gains Impress, Making Walking To School Safer
May 20, 2013
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World Trade Center Security Will Kill Its Urbanism
New York Times City Room, via: @witoldr
The wreckage had not been cleared from ground zero when planners and neighbors began…
Urbanism & Design: Google's Southern Strategy, Top 10 Cities To Travel Car Free, LRT To Revitalize Poor Denver Area, Impact Of Driverless Cars
April 23, 2013
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Google's Southern Strategy, Attractive City Clusters
Seattle Times
The first paragraph from the Charlotte Observer's story might make one think that the South is getting ready to stick it to the high-tax, high-regulation West Coast again:
Urbanism & Design: Reviving East Midtown Manhattan, Santa Rosa TOD Vote, Tampa Ped Friendly Makeover, Zombie Subdivisions
April 22, 2013
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A Better Way to Revive East Midtown Manhattan
New York Times
WE are told that New York needs to be lofted back into global competitiveness. That the city isn't modern enough.
Urban Issues: Obama's Budget & Cities, Connecting People To City Services, Real Estate Pros Endorse TOD, Creating Equitable TOD
April 11, 2013
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Obama's Budget Released
DC Streetsblog
The Obama Administration has put forward an opening bid in what are sure to be contentious 2014 budget negotiations, issuing a solidly progressive transportation budget that calls for increased overall spending and continued investment in passenger rail.
Urban Issues: A NIMBY Paradise, Controlling Austin Development, Oil Addicted Cities, Seattle Affordable Housing Debate, Unemployment From Child's Perspective
March 28, 2013
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New York City is a NIMBY Paradise
The Daily Beast
Apparently, there is a popular impression of New York as "of New York as a builder-friendly city that's constantly exceeding the bounds of rational development".
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Urbanism & Design: NIMBYs Stifle Innovation, Urban Courtyards, Denver's New Density, Vancouver Parking Circa 1966, Financing Walkable Places
March 27, 2013
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How NIMBYs are Stifling Neighborhood Innovation, Bars, Eating
Slate Moneybox
How NIMBY stupidity is stifling urban bars and restaurants-and blocking a major opportunity for small-business growth.
Urban Issues: Well-Paying Job Shift, Omaha Bike & Sprawl Debate, NOLA Transit Equity Focus, Importance Of Code Enforcement
March 27, 2013
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Minnesota's Well Paying Jobs Shift to Health Care
Twin Cities Finance and Commerce
It is less blue collar - unless blue nurses scrubs count.
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Urban Issues: Poverty As Contagion of Obesity Epidemic, Seattle Affordable Housing Shortage, Land Conservancy Affordable TOD Land Purchase
March 19, 2013
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Poverty Ignored Contagion of Obesity Epidemic
New York Times
Under the category "Summer Rentals That Have Gone Terribly Wrong," there are perhaps few parallels to the experience of Charles Henry Warren, a Manhattan banker who, in 1906, took a house in Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore.
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