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'The Myth of The Compact City' - A Response

katmartindale wrote 10 hours ago: When I signed up to the Cato Institute’s email newsletter, I was adhering to the old adage ‘keep you … more →

Tags: Urban Design, Cato Institute, compact city, land use policy, Sprawl, sustainability

phoenix - fences

jellykopf wrote 1 week ago: I told you I was really horrible at this whole blogging thing. It’s hard for me to set aside time fo … more →

Tags: sustainability, Class discussion

A New Deal for America's Inner Cities

Michael Stubel wrote 1 week ago: Over the last year, my roommate and I have embarked on a crusade to run to the farthest reaches of t … more →

Tags: Policy, DC, LinkedIn, President Obama, Urban renewal, Washington

Public transit: the problem is you

twilner wrote 1 month ago: Breathless talk on local news stations about the latest proposal to address Dallas transit woes: a d … more →

Tags: Urban Planning, Boston, Buses, Cars, Chicago, Cities, city, D C, Dallas

The problem with districts

twilner wrote 1 month ago: A San Francisco Chronicle article today applauds the “lively urban village” feel of a Je … more →

Tags: Architecture, Urban Planning, Arts District, AT&T Performing Arts Center, Culture, Dallas, housing, infill, Jewish

Stimulus round-up: October 8, 2009

twilner wrote 1 month ago: A broadened tax credit for home buyers is the latest stimulus-extension measure to be considered by … more →

Tags: Alternative Energy, Other, Urban policy links, Boston, budget deficit, CBO, Congress, congressional budget office, Deficit

The Lameness of "Transformative Investments"

Julio Gonzalez Altamirano wrote 1 month ago: Urban policy heavyweight Bruce Katz of Brookings has co-authored a paper with Julie Wagner about … more →

Tags: development, Public Investment, urban infrastructure

public debt in the UK £800 billion and counting

urbanpolicy wrote 4 months ago: … more →

Tags: Local Government, post bureaucratic age, transport infrastructure, HCA, RDA, family housing, Regeneration, non for profit service providers

the intention of this blog is to take a look at those urban issues facing all of us and to put forward ideas that can be considered by our future policy maker's

urbanpolicy wrote 4 months ago: … more →

Tags: Local Government, post bureaucratic age, transport infrastructure, HCA, RDA, family housing, Regeneration, Social Justice, Demographics

a big thank you to Nick Booth at podnosh and the fazeley studios media surgery for introducing us to this new world of communication

urbanladywood wrote 4 months ago: … more →

Tags: Birmingham, Ladywood, Urban, neighbourhood, Socio-Economic, Child Poverty, Social Justice, Local Government, Transport

Bastards of the Economy

gmtk wrote 5 months ago: Peace, Last night, I watched Bastards of the Party,a gripping documentary by Athens Park Blood Che … more →

Tags: Economics, Urban Anthropology

Resilience in Recession

freiss wrote 5 months ago: Cities all over Europe are beginning to plan how they can respond to the crisis and also use the opp … more →

Tags: recession

MILE closes out

freiss wrote 5 months ago: MILE the pilot Urbact network focusing on managing migration at the local level (why wasn’t it … more →

Tags: Social Inclusion, URBACT, migration

Main Page - Wikipreneurship

freiss wrote 5 months ago: Wikipreneurship is Europe’s leading site for interesting examples of practice and policy on wi … more →

Tags: Social innovation, Entrepreneurship, Social Inclusion

URBACT

freiss wrote 5 months ago: Peter and the other thematic pole managers (Philip Stein and Paul Soto) have been busy supporting UR … more →

Whitehouse removes and/or hides gun policy plans...

nugun wrote 6 months ago: Whitehouse.gov has (re)moved the several statements they had on the Urban Policy Agenda page regardi … more →

Tags: Politics and Gun Control, Humor & fun, obama, White House

What happened to the office of urban policy?3 comments

CNN wrote 7 months ago: After 100 days, Obama’s shiny-new dream for our cities is looking more like a bureaucratic nightmare … more →

Tags: President George W. Bush

New Blood, Old Story2 comments

gmtk wrote 7 months ago: Peace, Today’s Washington Post featured a story about the sad cycle of school districts placin … more →

Tags: Economics, Eucation, Maryland, schools, Washington Post

Relationships

gmtk wrote 7 months ago: Peace, The titles of my posts may not always appear to connect, but if you think about what I’ … more →

Tags: Economics, Politics, Urban Anthropology, Barack Obama, Detroit, Hugo Chavez, Isreal, Palenstine, Somali Pitates


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