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Talent Gluts And Global Cities

April 21, 2012 by Jim Russell
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New York is a great city. It's arguably the greatest city in the world. But many myths persist, misleading many aspiring metros. Like San Francisco, NYC is a domestic migration loser. "Successful cities" are often tops in brain drain. Ironically (in view of the exodus), New York is also king of the talent glut:In the pilot, Hannah was... [read more]

What Makes A Global City Great?

April 3, 2012 by Jim Russell
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New York City is the greatest city in the world. You might disagree. But I'd guess that the #1 metro in the United States would be near the top of anyone's list. Mayor Michael Bloomberg explains his city's success:Many newly successful cities on the global stage – such as Shenzhen and Dubai – have sought to make themselves attractive to... [read more]

American Infrastructure: The Next Generation

March 5, 2012 by Tyler Caine
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Tyler Caine checks out how New York is dealing with the challenges of being a 21st century city, from fixing its crumbling infrastructure to renewing its food systems. [read more]

Is Waste-to-Energy the future of energy in New York?

January 18, 2012 by Next American City
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Coverage of Mayor Bloomberg’s state of the city address focused, as the speech did, on the mayor’s raft of education proposals, with some additional attention to his mentions of police corruption and the minimum wage. But the mayor’s reference to a once-controversial notion—“the possibility of cleanly converting trash into renewable energy”—passed all but unnoticed. [read more]

Management as Design in Urban Housing Blocks

January 13, 2012 by polis blog
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The Starrett City housing development in East New York. Source: New York Magazine Rosalie Genevro's article "Starrett City: A Home of One’s Own — With Party Walls" traces the history of a beloved modernist housing project in East New York. Cassim Shepard, editor of Urban Omnibus, explains its significance: ... [read more]

BitCity Conference: Transportation, Data and Technology in Cities

November 28, 2011 by David Levinson
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A nice write up of the BitCity Conference: Transportation, Data and Technology in Cities conference at UntappedCities.com, including a link to the video.. (Via conference co-organizer David King.)  Editor- the linked material is reported below from http://untappedcities.com/. BitCity Conference: Transportation, Data and... [read more]

Urban Parklets: The New Front Stoop

September 21, 2011 by Warren Karlenzig
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San Francisco's parklets (left, from top to bottom: #1, Valencia Street, #2 and #3 Divisadero, and #4, Castro and 17th, bottom) are a vibrant testimony to the city's Pavement to Parks Program, managed by a non-profit, the Great Streets Program. The 15 parklets started with two to three parking spaces, or other poorly-utilized urban... [read more]

What Happened To New York's Congestion Charge?

August 27, 2011 by This Big City
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The defeat happened years ago, but for most people in transportation policy the wound is still open and the opportunity is still missed. Congestion charging isn’t something that has taken a serious foothold in the States, though there are some fledgling pricing based systems in placed like San Francisco and Miami. A congestion charge in New York City is a bit like a gold dipped domino: it would instantly become the most impressive and sought after system in America and pave the way for other cities to initiate systems of their own. If New York can do it, then there’s no reason that Los Angeles or Des Moines, Iowa couldn’t do it as well. [read more]

The High-Line Upside Down

August 10, 2011 by The Dirt ASLA
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Like the High Line Park in Chelsea, a new esplanade along New York City’s East River smartly reuses transportation infrastructure. However, instead of taking shape on top of existing rail infrastructure, this new promenade on the water follows a path directly underneath and along side the F.D... [read more]

Does Walkability Have To Cost Us Live-ability?

June 23, 2011 by Kristen Jeffers
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North Hills (via Tripwolf.com) In November 2008, I was considering moving into the neighborhood in Raleigh I’d been working and playing in, North Hills (Midtown) Raleigh. North Hills is one of the many examples of successful classical new urbanism in North Carolina. It took a shopping mall that was emptying due to competition from nearby... [read more]

New York City Buildings to Open Doors for Green Tech Startups

May 19, 2011 by Stephen Del Percio
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Last Friday, the New York City Council announced the opening of a request-for-applications process for startup companies in the green building industry. Dubbed the Municipal Entrepreneurial Testing System, or METS, the program is aimed at New York City-based green tech companies (or those whose technologies will create jobs here)... [read more]

Urban planners should learn urban economics

April 18, 2011 by Chris Bradford
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Stephen Smith writes about a Manhattan residential project in which 40% of the units will be set aside for affordable housing, likely due to political pressure.  He asks "How much affordable housing is enough?" and then explains the unintended consequences of large affordable housing mandates: Obviously, I oppose setting aside this... [read more]