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Post-collegiate in extremis
young and restless Originally uploaded by Payton Chung The first set of charts, graphs, and illustrations has come back from the planners examining Wicker Park & Bucktown on behalf of we, the...
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Assorted collected
Recent quotables. No common theme. Bill McKibbenin Yes! Magazine: The kind of extreme independence that derived from cheap fossil fuel—the fact that we need our neighbors for nothing at all—can’t last....
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Auto age deathwatch
“For the moment, watching gas prices roll relentlessly higher, we’re transfixed by the slightly terrifying novelty of it all.” — Bill McKibben In even more earth-shattering news than the forthcoming...
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What I’m reading today
[This started short and got quite lengthy. Maybe I'll break off parts later.] 1. Citywide bike sharing arrives in the Midwest this week when Nice Ride launches in Minneapolis, using Bixi technology. (I...
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The affluent society starving investment
As the Economist points out this week, capital spending on transportation & water infrastructure in the USA has declined by two-thirds since its Kennedy (and Pat Brown) era heyday. As that era...
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Signals across the urban archipelago
A recurring theme that I keep hearing about in 2013 is that cities — linked together through national and global networks — must assert a leadership role in conceiving and implementing the policy...
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Attitudes towards race and space: another red-blue divide
Just attended a CAP/PolicyLink event about a new poll examining American’s attitude towards rising diversity. The report raises some interesting implications about the intersection of race and place —...
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Shorts: movements
1. Susan Silberberg et al (via Angie at Streetsblog write that placemaking’s true value stems less from physical transformation than social transformation: “The act of advocating for change,...
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If “everyone” were moving back to the city, would you?
“That would depend on what you mean by ‘everyone’ and ‘the city,’ of course.” Recently, Kaid Benfield linked over to my recent post about “peak sprawl”, tying that phenomenon to broader changes in the...
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Hong Kong’s revolution is in the streets, not the skyways
Even in “the city without ground,” #UmbrellaRevolution has taken not to the ersatz quasi-public spaces floating above Central, but instead to the ground — or at least to the traffic-sewer highways that...
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NIMBYs: loss aversion and, geography of, and rhetorical fallacies of
It won’t rank high in the annals of “speaking truth to power,” but it’s interesting to read Washingtonian writer Marisa M. Kashino’s take on DC’s systemic housing underproduction: “But the District...
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CNU conversations: Can we build authentic, small-scale communities that...
A few thoughts on a CNU 23 presentation by Russell Preston and Matt Lambert about their ongoing work on defining and fostering authenticity within New Urbanist places. Other thoughts will be...
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