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Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell defends cities, Obama budget

February 19, 2012

Grand Rapids Mayor took to mlive.com yesterday morning with an article defending cities and the Obama budget. The former city commissioner and ordained minister's editorial list's off a healthy number of reason...

Cracked Sidewalk. Image courtesy of jazart90 on Flickr.

Cash strapped Los Angeles may have to pay for new sidewalks. Will your city?

John Cruz

February 4, 2012

News, Policy

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Ever since president Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities act of 1990, we have seen countless entities in the private sector fall to lawsuits claiming that their facilities were discriminatory a...

Crying Over Spilled Gas, Cause it Might Cost More

David Mieksztyn

January 27, 2012

News

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Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan has decided to do what the American people do not want, increase the gas tax. First, the poll results. Reason.com conducted a poll of Americans that found that 77% of the resp...

How would YOU make cities better?

John Cruz

January 27, 2012

News

Cities are popular again. For the first time in ages, we are seeing numerous groups come forward and bring fourth the message "It's time to make our cities better". After all, the city 2.0 was the TexEx 2012 ...

Welcome to Montana. Image courtesy of auvet on Flickr.

Perceptions on Density: Is it too crowded in Big Sky Country?

John Cruz

January 17, 2012

Community and Neighborhoods, Culture, Featured, News

Out west lies a massive state with a relatively low population - the big Sky State of Montana. With the population of Montana officially crossing over the 1 million person hurdle, you wouldn't think there would...

2012 APA National Planning Award Winners Announced

John Cruz

January 10, 2012

News

The American Planning Association has announced their 2012 National Planning Awards. These awards are the APA showing recognition to the most outstanding people and places that create communities where people w...

Highway to Greenway

David Mieksztyn

January 5, 2012

News, Sustainability

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In Madrid, Spain, when a highway becomes noisy and pollutant, they bury it underground and put a park on top. The New York Times recently featured Madrid Rio, an urban park created on top of a once above groun...

The Best GOP candidates on High Speed Rail are Newt Gingrich….and Ron Paul?

John Cruz

January 3, 2012

Culture, Featured, News

Later on this evening, Iowa republicans will start to caucus for their nomination for president on the republican ticket. An issue that has been avoided among the candidates thus far has been transportation, so...

Beware The Windsor Hum (or, shut up America!)

David Mieksztyn

October 17, 2011

Community and Neighborhoods, News

Anyone preparing for the impending war with our neighbors to the south, Canada? Well, it turns out that there will be at least a legal battle considering that something with it's own science fiction sounding n...

Batty & Longley’s 1994 Book Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function is now available as a free PDF!

John Cruz

September 21, 2011

News

This is one that I am excited to get my hands on. Fractal Cities is very hard to find, and expensive when it is found. While I could spend entirely too much time editorializing it, I'm just going to send over t...