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Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini Unveil the New Abnormal
Institutional Investor
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Forget the New Normal. Five full years after the financial crisis, we’ve entered a period of increasing global uncertainty and instability that’s almost certain
Canadian mayors face corruption, drug allegations
today.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
>>>now to a couple of scandals in two major cities north of the border that have people asking what's going on in canada.>> reporter: montreal mayor left police headquaters declining to comment on the 14 corruption charges he is facing before hopping into a cab. he arrived more ...
New Jersey Herald
Newton begins to review the best ways to get aroun...
4 mentions — 1 day ago
Newton begins to review the best ways to get around townPosted: Monday, June 17, 2013 11:35 PM ESTUpdated:Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:26 AM ESTNEWTON -- The exercise was to look at three locations in downtown Newton -- Spring Street, Trinity Street or the Route 94/High Street area -- ...
Saudi prince eyes world's big cities for mile-high tower
asiaone.com
2 mentions — 2 days ago
DUBAI - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at the world's largest cities, including Shanghai, Moscow, London and New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would be the world's tallest building by far.The prince is inviting Dubai's biggest real estate ...
Yes, Toronto City Hall Is a Joke, But It's Not All Rob Ford's Fault
The Atlantic Cities
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Toronto, a city that’s built its brand on the principles of peace, order, and good government, has been the recent subject of some very bad press. The still-evolving scandal involving Mayor Rob Ford and a video that allegedly shows him smoking crack cocaine has transformed his tenure from ...
New Pentagon Mandate: Make Military Bases Livable, That’s an Order!
Streetsblog Capitol Hill
6 mentions — 1 day ago
This article is the first in a series about the U.S. military’s new embrace of smart growth planning.Military installations around the world are in the midst of a livability revolution. Here's a plan to add transit at Washington's Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Image: Urban CollaborativeRep. Earl Blumenauer wasn’t exaggerating ...
SEMCOG to vote on I-94, I-75 expansions
Mode Shift: Move Together
7 mentions — 2 days ago
DETROIT—The General Assembly of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments will soon finalize both short and long-term priorities for transportation funding in the region.Two documents — the 2040 Regional Transportation Plan and the 2014-2017 Transportation Improvement Plan — will be voted on when the body convenes this Thursday,
Questioning Cleveland’s Undying Faith in Development
Rust Wire
3 mentions — 2 days ago
Cleveland is a real estate town, someone once told me. We’re home to Forest City Enterprises, Developers Diversified. Real estate development is part of the culture here and often seen as the highest form of economic development, probably just sort of by default, without thinking about it.We’re just ...
America's Leading Metros for Venture Capital
The Atlantic Cities
6 mentions — 2 days ago
Author's Note: This is the third in an ongoing series of posts looking at the new geography of venture capital and high-tech start-ups, and the degree to which these communities are shifting from their traditional locations in the suburbs to urban areas.Venture capitalists are the financiers of high-tech ...
Conservative Think Tank: Invest in Transit to Boost Metro Economies
Streetsblog Capitol Hill
11 mentions — 2 days ago
Here’s a refreshing take on metropolitan economic health from the right side of the aisle: The conservative Free Congress Foundation says it’s time America got serious about investing in transit in its metro areas.Young, educated people are demanding better transit options and returning to cities, notes a new ...
Are Global Cities Really Doomed to Become 'Citadels' for the Rich?
The Atlantic Cities
9 mentions — 2 days ago
Simon Kuper sketched a dismal picture in the Financial Times over the weekend of the end-game for what he's calling the "great global cities" – places like New York, Paris, London, Singapore, Hong Kong – where the fortunes of a few have become entirely detached from the sputtering ...
3D Printing and Sustainable Cities
Sustainable Cities Collective
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
I admit that I am late to the game - and perhaps some of you out there are too. Although 3D printing has been used for a few years, thoughts about its implications for economies and cities hadn’t crossed my mind until recently. This occurred when I was ...
Why there are more deaths than births among whites
Pew Research Center
2 mentions — 2 days ago
The finding that made headlines from this week’s Census Bureau release of new national and state population estimates—that there are now more deaths than births among non-Hispanic whites—is a vivid illustration of the rapid long-term growth in the number of older Americans.But first, you might ask, how could ...
'Best Square' in Paris Returned to the People
Planetizen: The Urban Planning, Design, and Devel...
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Over the weekend, the $30 million revamp of Paris's iconic Place de la République opened to the public. By transforming the square from a place for cars into a place for people, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe has earned a distinguished "anti-car" label."On Sunday, Paris Socialist mayor Bertrand Delanoë, accompanied ...
Park Preservation and Urban Placemaking
Sustainable Cities Collective
2 mentions — 1 day ago
The Trust for Public Land Park Score index ranked the “City of Lakes” Minneapolis, Minnesota as the #1 Park System in the Nation, with New York, NY coming in second. The city’s park system scored high in every category, which includes the size of the parks, the amount ...
Urban Design and Walkability
Sustainable Cities Collective
2 mentions — 2 days ago
“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where ...
Banning Saggy Pants and Controlling Public Spaces
Next City
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Since 2004 more than 20 cities, counties or parishes in the nation have outlawed “saggy pants” (for a primer on what those are, check this song). Now Wildwood, N.J., a throwback beach vacation mecca on the Jersey Shore, has become the most recent town to join the ranks ...
THE BIKE LOBBY ROLLS ON
POLITICO
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz drew widespread mockery when she suggested in an online video that “the bike lobby is an all-powerful enterprise,” while she blasted the New York City bike sharing program as the product of a “totalitarian” city government.All powerful the bike lobby ...
Say Cheese! #Selfies as the New Marketing Campaign
huffingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Some 27,800 photographs are uploaded to Instagram each minute, according to Pop Photo. That sounds like a lot, until you realize that 208,300 photos are being uploaded to Facebook every minute -- almost 300 million a day and they claim more than 7 billion per month.That may seem ...
America's Most Urban President Should Embrace Its Cities
Planetizen: The Urban Planning, Design, and Devel...
2 mentions — 1 day ago
While he cannot do much to rewrite the Constitution, which favors rural America, or reverse a century of history, which gave rise to the suburbs, Obama, the most urban president, can do more to embrace the city as an innovation incubator.According to Edward Luce, two-thirds of Americans live ...
Project for Public Spaces
Five Essential Elements of a Placemaking Campaign
4 mentions — 3 days ago
“If architecture is frozen music, then urban planning is composition, and Placemaking is improvisational street performance.” / Photo: Ethan Kent PPSLately, as we analyze the information generated through the inaugural Placemaking Leadership Council and begin planning the future of a larger effort to promote Placemaking as a social ...
The Next Big Infrastructure Crisis? Age-Proofing Our Streets
The Atlantic Cities
23 mentions — 1 week ago
We often talk colloquially about the "fast pace of city living," and that pace actually has a default speed: We’ve long assumed that people cross the street walking at about 4 feet per second.Crosswalks are timed with this number in mind, so you don't get clipped by a ...
Next step for Bloomingdale Trail: Creating an identity
chicagotribune.com
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Milwaukee Avenue bridgeThis is the proposed bridge on the elevated trail at Leavitt Street. (Courtesy of the Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land /June 17, 2013)
Mind-Blowing Discovery of the Day: Angkor Wat Was Much Larger Than We Ever Imagined
The Atlantic Cities
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Few visitors to the temples at Angkor Wat are unimpressed. But, as a team of international archaeologists recently discovered, the visible buildings represent merely a portion of a formally planned urban environment whose existence has been hidden beneath the jungle for a thousand years.Using lidar, the aerial mapping ...
Priced out of Paris - FT.com
FT.com
22 mentions — 4 days ago
Two mournful friends dropped by our flat in Paris last Sunday. They are a well-paid couple from the caste known in Paris as “bobos”: people with bourgeois incomes and bohemian tastes. In the popular narrative, bobos have invaded Paris, driving out pure bohemians and the working class. But ...
Slow Jam
Next City
5 mentions — 2 days ago
This special issue of Forefront is part of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Informal City Dialogues, a year-long collaboration with Forum for the Future and Next City taking place in six rapidly urbanizing cities around the world. The project aims to foster a conversation about creating more inclusive and resilient ...
Tweet Chat: #GetFitChat for Cancer Prevention through Healthy Lifestyles
urbantimes.co
3 mentions — 12 hours ago
Content: One in three people will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime. This statistic represents a reality in many countries across the world.Last month GE Healthcare launched its third annual public awareness campaign around cancer prevention, #GetFit. The #GetFit campaign aims to highlight recent research and new ...
European roaming charges will end in 2014 (Wired UK)
wired.co.uk
5 mentions — 3 days ago
Roaming fees for voice calls, texts and internet access will be a thing of the past across Europe from 2014, afterEuropean politicians voted to fast-track reforms of the Europeantelecoms market.The European Commission - a group of 27 politicians whorepresent the best interests of Europe as a whole, rather ...
That inking feeling
NYPOST.com
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Perhaps it was Jon Gosselin, the reviled reality TV dad of eight, who first turned us against Ed Hardy. In 2009, when photos of him frolicking on a yacht in Cannes wearing an array of T-shirts with Hardy’s signature tattoo art appeared on blogs everywhere, any credibility the ...
After Newtown, We Vowed to Take Gun Control Seriously. Why Has Nothing Changed?
slate.com
2 mentions — 3 days ago
MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more.NEWTOWN, CT - JUNE 14: Lindsay Knauf takes a picture of a bus bearing some of the over 6,000 names of ...
The Beat Night Life of New York: Jack Kerouac’s Gotham
Brain Pickings
2 mentions — 5 days ago
New York City is arguably one of modern history’s greatest literary muses — Frank O’Hara extolled its dirty streets, Gay Talese marveled at the social order of its cats, and countless essayists channeled Central Park’s glory. Among Gotham’s many admirers was Jack Kerouac — passionate teenage diarist, admonisher ...
Could a New Neighborhood Grow in the Shadow of I-280?
Curbed SF
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Looking south at the 280 overpass across Mission Creek [Photo by Laura Tepper] If tearing down yet another San Francisco freeway doesn't seem to be enough of undertaking, turn your attention to a new proposal that calls for the replacement of the northern spur of I-280 with a ...
What’s more important: a college degree or being born rich?
Politics
2 mentions — 4 days ago
I previously shared data from Pew’s Economic Mobility Project about social mobility (I, II). As far as income mobility goes, you are 10x more likely to wind up in the richest fifth as an adult if you were born there than if you were born in the poorest ...
Should You Commute by Citi Bike? One Man's Hilariously Detailed Analysis
The Atlantic Cities
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Dorothy Rabinowitz isn't the only one making videos about Citi Bike, the New York City bikeshare program that debuted last month.Filmmaker Casey Neistat has turned a more analytical eye towards the program (he uses numbers), with the premise: Getting to work in New York City is a pain ...
Political Action From the Bike Lobby
NYTimes.com
4 mentions — 1 day ago
Cycling opponents have long accused Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of answering to a power-hungry bike lobby whispering in his ear about bike lanes, bike sharing and any other policy objective on two wheels.But this week, advocates for cycling and pedestrian safety will begin perhaps the most decisive test ...
Where You Live Actually Changes the Noises You Make
The Atlantic Cities
3 mentions — 1 day ago
The Internet exploded a couple of weeks ago with Joshua Katz’s colorful map visualizations of American regional dialects, based on research by Dr. Bert Vaux of Cambridge University. The maps show who says what, where, noting the spread of regional dialects across the 48 contiguous states (Katz left ...