May 2012
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“In Atlanta, virtually no newcomers from foreign countries settle within the city...”
– Alan Ehrenhalt, author of The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
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“We can do this badly, or we can try to do it well. The Century of the Metropolis...”
– Sarah Williams Goldhagen on Architecture: Living High
“Today’s youth face a grim future not of their own making. Is it any wonder that...”
– John Moore, National Post (via toiling)
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“When most people think of vehicle emissions, they assume cars do most of the...”
– Daryl Dulaney, Siemens infrastructure chief
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“The boulevard is the only part of the built environment in Southern California...”
– Christopher Hawthorne
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“Dynamic cities have three things: technology, talent and tolerance. Those cities...”
– Former Lincoln Sen. David Landis on the non-discrimination ordinance proposal hearings in Lincoln, Nebraska
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This city life: The Rise of the Mini Home →
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I’ve written before about how much I enjoy living in a small home in a walkable neighbourhood. Apparently I am not the only one. Real estate trends, urban planning theorists, and architects in North America are coming to the realization that more and more young people - Generation Y - and even…
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“Many mothers who stay at home are isolated. Kids can be a lot of fun but are not...”
– Petra Spiess, Mother’s big helper
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Five Ways We'll Work Differently 10 Years From Now
Certainly some interesting proposals, taken with a grain of salt, of course.
Manufacturing will return and become more localized. High transportation costs will make regional manufacturing hubs more attractive.
Offices will continue to lose out to mobility, as work-anywhere trends push up office vacancies to as high as 40 percent in many markets.
Data security will go biometric, essential in...
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“In the case of bike share, it’s hard for me to imagine a political environment...”
– Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities
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“Nerdistan \ˈnərd-ə-stan\ n. An upscale and largely self-contained suburb or town...”
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“Most tech companies today like to be in old buildings in gritty neighborhoods...”
– Tom Murphy, a senior resident fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for Urban Development, and a former mayor of Pittsburgh
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“It turns out vehicular traffic does something else, too, more subtle but equally...”
– SARAH GOODYEAR: Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don’t Know Where They’re Going
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April 2012
23 posts
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The Evolution of the American Dream, from Colonial... →
House & Home, the most ambitious exhibit the museum has ever staged, is aiming to cover it all: the construction of American homes, their high art in architecture, the objects we put inside them, the associations they carry for us – and how all of this has evolved over time with new technology, changing politics and population shifts in and around the country. The curators, who have been...
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“Essentially, Chuck told us that we’ve eaten too many donuts and now find...”
– Howard Blackson, Infrastructure Deficit Disorder: The Doctor is In
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Which Cities Are the Musical Trend Setters? (Hint:... →
The researchers gathered data from the social media website last.fm, which aggregates the music preference of huge numbers of music listeners across the world. According to the study, the site has logged more than 60 billion individual listener-preferences, or “scrobbles,” across more than 200 large cities between 2003 and 2011. Using a statistical technique adapted from studies of...
“If a child is struck and killed by a car in 2012, it is treated as a private...”
– A fascinating history of pedestrian deaths, and how they were effectively decriminalized by the auto industry
The Invention of Jaywalking - Commute - The Atlantic Cities
(via felixsalmon)
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“Urban centers across the US are demonstrating that they’ve learned an important...”
– ATL Urbanist
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“India is urbanising at the fastest rate known to a democratic country in the...”
– Aparna Piramal Raje, citing India’s Urban Awakening report by McKinsey Global Institute
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The Biggest X-Factor in the Housing Market? Where... →
America’s aging population is already placing different demands on the housing market and affecting what developers will likely be focused on providing, according to Terry Holzheimer, director of economic development in Arlington County, Virginia. He’s expecting to see more infill housing, more housing in areas that are walkable, and more pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods with high...
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Why I Won’t Read Forefront
Today marks the release of Forefront, the online magazine published by The Next American City. Forefront releases content once a week and offers readers the choice to purchase stories individually or pay a monthly subscription fee. The site will also feature sponsored content that will be free for everyone. This site replaces the older NAC website that was, to be frank, rather...
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“The U.S. is in the earliest phases of this current spatial fix, which revolves...”
– Richard Florida
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Architecture’s Ugly Ducklings May Not Get Time to... →
In an interview Theodore Dalrymple, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has written about the architecture of Le Corbusier, described Brutalist buildings as “absolutely hideous, like scouring pads on the retina.”
Barry Bergdoll, the chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, said: “Brutalism was supposed to bring back all sorts of things like craft — the...
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Homeless Hotspots →
Homeless Hotspots was a charitable innovation initiative by BBH New York in partnership with Front Steps Shelter during the SXSW Interactive festival in March of 2012. It attempted to help modernize the Street Newspaper model employed to support homeless populations for our more digital age. Selling street newspapers can be a critically important tool for homeless individuals due to the ability...
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“Metro towns aren’t self-reliant. Their fates have been tied to the fates...”
– Maggie Koerth-Baker, author of Spread Reckoning: U.S. Suburbs Face Twin Perils of Climate Change and Peak Oil
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Reclaiming the suburbs: Some of America’s... →
Some of these will be used as canvasses for graffiti. Some will be razed. Others, happily, will find another purpose. One strategy is to turn the mall itself into a mixed-use development. The Natick, a high-end mall in Boston, has added condominiums. Another idea is to bring in unconventional tenants. In Cleveland, Ohio, part of a mall has been given over to indoor gardens, with the idea that it...
March 2012
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“Progressives and urbanists need to move beyond their romance with central...”
– Matthew Yglesias
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“We have to stop building cities as if everyone is 30 years-old and athletic.”
– Gil Penalosa, executive director of Toronto-based 8-80 Cities