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Don't Trust The Natives
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 07/15/2015 - 2:05pmAn otherwise reasonable Denver Post article on the relationship between density and smart growth stated: "but every now and then nearby residents who loudly protest a proposed project really do understand their long-term interests."
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Throwing The Poor Out of Suburbs
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:40amMuch has been written about gentrification and about the specter of poor people being displaced from cities- despite the fact that nearly every central city still has higher poverty rates than most of its suburbs.
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Maybe Urban Schools Aren't So Bad
Submitted by MLewyn on Mon, 06/22/2015 - 3:28pmIt is conventional wisdom that big cities have problems retaining the middle class because of poor schools. But many older cities labor under a disadvantage that their suburbs don't have- lots of students from underprivileged background.
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Pope Francis' Laudato Si and New Urbanism
Submitted by jgolbabai on Sat, 06/20/2015 - 6:45amIn case you all haven't read it already, Pope Francis' Laudato Si released this week talks very directly on many New Urbanist themes, taken almost directly from the Charter. If anyone is interested in getting together and talking about this document in more detail, please let me know.
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Our Middle Eastern City of the Future
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The Economist: Bad urban planning is the cause of all our problems
Submitted by Daniel Bowen on Sat, 05/16/2015 - 1:55pmNot literally, of course, but not far off:
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21647622-land-centre-pre-industri...
[mirror] http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=122964975&postcount=7
Basically, The Economist says that a lot of the global problems of the past 5-10 years (inequali... read more »
Conservative cities? Yes, in the UK
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 05/08/2015 - 5:08pmIn the United States, central cities lean towards left-wing parties (even in affluent areas like the Upper West Side of New York) while suburbs and exurbs lean right. But as we learned this week in the United Kingdom, this is not true everywhere. London's urban core is the Cities of Lond... read more »
The Geography of NYC's Children: More Evidence of Urban Popularity
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 05/05/2015 - 11:33amConventional wisdom is that making urban cores stronger and more pedestrian-friendly is irrelevant to the interests of American parents, who supposedly want to live in suburbs or faux-suburbs at the edge of cities.
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Riot Recap: Or, Even The Bad News Is Not So Bad
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 05/05/2015 - 10:33amAfter the recent Baltimore riots, I saw numerous articles using them as proof that American cities really aren't on the mend after all, because there are still plenty of poverty-stricken, crime-ridden, riot-prone neighborhoods: all of which, of course, is certainly true.
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Too Much Open Space An Interesting Paper
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 04/21/2015 - 10:15amProf. Robert Ellickson of Yale Law School has an interesting paper up on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) website. He critciizes widespread popular support for open space, pointing out that too much open space reduces population density and thus accelerates sprawl and reduces housing... read more »