Thursday, January 28, 2010

Urban Vocabulary: New words, new concepts, and new definitions.

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Badburb A post-war suburban neighborhood that has become blighted and sometimes dangerous. Example: "It was a really beautiful master p...

Stimulus is last chance for U.S. cities

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By John Fetterman, Special to CNN January 27, 2010 Braddock, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- In 2001, I came to Braddock, the poorest town in Western ...

Cities that live......cities that die......and the time in between.......

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I was reading an article on the CNN website today that reminded me of a poem by one of my favorite poets Richard Hugo. It describes perfectl...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Do the shantytowns of the developing world hold lessons for the U.S.?

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I once had two friends that lived on a dusty street filled with potholes and broken down cars on the western slope of Cerro Colorado in the ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Changing Viewpoints: The case for creating the new "Creative Class"

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For years now, Richard Florida has toured the country preaching about how to attract the creative class. The creative class being young, edu...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Technology, assimilation and delayed locational disconnect

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Once upon a time, when you moved to a new city, you began to assimilate into that city rather rapidly.....whether you wanted to or not. In t...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

The continuing influence of Richard Neutra

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Neutraface is a family of fonts which was based on the architectural lettering style specified by the late modernist architect Richard Neutr...