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Turner Field, Atlanta GA. Photo by markwhitt on Flickr.

The new stadium deal in “Atlanta” that has everyone talking

November 28, 2013

Economic Development, Featured, The Burbs

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In 1996, in preparation for the summer Olympics, Atlanta erected a number of athletic structures to host some of the greatest athletes from around the globe. The Centennial Olympic Stadium would continue to hos...

In the works for over 150 years, Istanbul’s New Tunnel Finally links Europe and Asia

John Cruz

October 29, 2013

Featured, News, Transportation

In 1860, as the United States was in the early stages of their Civil War, Sultan Abdülmecid I, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in present day Turkey hatched a plan to construct a tunnel that would link th...

Bikes outsell Automobiles in United States and almost all of Europe.

John Cruz

October 24, 2013

Featured, News, Sustainability, Transportation

National Public Radio has reported that the number of bicycles is outselling cars in almost all of european countries, with countries such as Italy seeing new bicycle sales outpacing new car sales for the first...

Charter for Canadian Urbanism enacted

John Cruz

October 5, 2013

Featured, News

The 2013 Summit of the Council for Canadian Urbanism in Halifax saw the signing of The Charter for Canadian Urbanism. The final charter is a work that stemmed from the first draft presented in Toronto in 2009 a...

Transit Oriented Economic Development for Rust Belt American Cities

John Cruz

August 13, 2012

Economic Development, Featured

The final work of my graduate program at Wayne State was a masters essay on TO(E)D for Rust Belt cities, since this has been the reason why updates have been so sparse as of late, I felt that it was only fair t...

New Daleville, PA. Photo Source: http://sadsburyparkpa.com/photos.html

Lost Harvest

David Mieksztyn

May 21, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Featured

For those who have read Witold Rybczynski's Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville, the following story reveals what adding the housing market crash to cornfield-new urbanism looks like. Last Harve...

Manhattan. Photo courtesy of andrew c mace on Flickr.

Cities and Free Markets: The Manufactured American Dream

John Cruz

April 18, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

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For some reason or another people seem to associate cities with socialism and suburbs with the capitalist American dream. The notion that the strong middle class created American suburbia has been engraved in o...

Karachi’s Unplanned Poor

David Mieksztyn

March 15, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Economic Development, Featured

Imagine everything is new, bright and shiny. Imagine this new is something that also keeps you out, pushes you away, and finds you abandoning the place you once called home. When the poor in society are pushe...

5 Takeaways from “Defend Your Ride”

John Cruz

February 10, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, The Burbs

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Towards the end of last year I had the opportunity to produce a blog feature for CBS Detroit called Defend Your Ride (which is why there was a bit of a lull in posting for a while). The segment is being done in...

Home in Warren for Rent. Photo courtesy of Zillow.com

(Slum)Lord of the Inner-Ring

David Mieksztyn

January 30, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Featured, The Burbs

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Across the street is a partially run down home, with the front screen door off its hinges, peeling paint all around the house, and a partially collapsed garage door. This is the site you see outside your front...