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Judge rules Detroit eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy

December 3, 2013

United States Federal Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Rhodes has ruled that the city of Detroit meets all criteria to enter into Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. This is a standard first step in any bankruptcy case, u...

Pittsburgh Civic Arena Plan. Image from pittsburghmovingforward.org

Pittsburgh enters its stride with a progressive new Mayor

Patrick Hewitt

December 2, 2013

Economic Development, News, Policy

The press has been very kind to the City of Pittsburgh recently, and rightly so. The Brookings Institute heralded Pittsburgh as one of only three cities nationally to fully recover from the recession, the Econo...

Cleveland Avenue Neighborhood (Winston-Salem North Carolina) revitalization master plan.

HUD Hands out $4 million in Choice Neighborhood Planning Grants

John Cruz

November 22, 2013

News

The U.S. Government’s Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that nine communities around the country would be recipients of the 2013 Choice Neighborhood Planning grants. Grant proposals we...

The Sydney Opera House at sunset. Photo by sounav_maikap on Flickr.

Sydney, Australia has the world’s best reputation among cities

John Cruz

November 12, 2013

Culture, News

The Reputation Institute has released a slew of data for 2013 in a series of reports which rank the global reputations of cities and countries around the world. A good reputation for a place is much more that j...

Cincinnati’s Streetcar Project looks to be the first casualty of the 2013 Municipal elections

John Cruz

November 7, 2013

News, Transportation

On Tuesday, municipal elections across the United States brought fourth a lot of change to the way urban policy will be shaped in the coming years. While we await to see how the policies of many new big-city ma...

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...

Places in the Making: New MIT Research on Placemaking Reveals the Power of Community Engagement in Design of Public Spaces

John Cruz

October 23, 2013

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, News

Today a new white paper was released by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the subject of Placemaking. The team is headed by faculty Susan Silberberg, w...

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...

Twenty-one global Cities nominate solutions to meet challenges for 110 million citizens.

John Cruz

March 6, 2012

News

The Urbanist Dispatch is proud to be a collaborating partner for the Living Labs Global Award 2012. New innovative ideas are needed to move cities forward, and the 2012 nominees have been announced! Please chec...