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Rezoning Midtown East by Micah Rodman 26 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
[ Many of you are probably aware by now that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pushing to upzone the Midtown East area around Grand Central Terminal before he leaves office. Micah Rodman, a student ...
Parking Madness, Detroit Edition 22 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm
RustWire pointed me at this map from Data Driven Detroit that shows the simply staggering amount of parking downtown. I never cease to be mind-blown when I see one of these: A production of the Urban...
How Cities Grow, Slump, and Recover 22 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm
Urbanist economist Ryan Avent, who writes as part of the FreeExchange team at the Economist, is out with a video where he talked about growth and decline in cities. It’s definitely worth a watch. If i...
Trends in American High-Rise Construction by David Holmes 20 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
[ David Holmes did a research project on high-rise construction in the last decade. There are some interesting and surely controversy-provoking stats in there, so I'm glad to be able to share his writ...
Building Civic Self-Esteem 19 Aug 2013 | 02:05 am
Among post-industrial cities in America, one of the things I observe is a sort of malaise in the civic character. Many of these places have been beaten down so hard for so long that a sort of defeatis...
Is the Census Bureau On Track For Another Estimating Fiasco? 16 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
My latest blog post is online over at New Geography. It’s called “Is the Census Bureau On Track For Another Estimating Fiasco?” and looks at the eyebrow-raising sub-county estimates released in June i...
Beyond Brain Drain and the Need to Get Serious About Talent Recruitment 15 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
My latest piece is online at Governing and is called “Beyond the ‘Brain Drain’: How Cities Really Need to Sell Themselves.” Though the “brain drain” paradigm is dominant lens through which cities purs...
Hong Kong Timelapse 14 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Here’s a pretty slick time lapse of Hong Kong that’s a bit of a variation on what we usually see. Still pretty cool though. If the video doesn’t display for you, click here. h/t Oli Mould A producti...
The Growing Public Safety Inequality Gap in Chicago by Daniel Hertz 13 Aug 2013 | 04:47 am
[ Daniel Hertz writes over at his City Notes blog. He was gracious enough to give me to permission to repost the results of his research into changes in crime patterns in Chicago over time - Aaron. ] ...
Don’t Forget, The Real Baseball Scandal Is How Its Owners Fleece the Public With Stadium Subsidies 12 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
I don’t really follow sports much these days, but even I have seen stuff flying around over the latest performance enhancing drug scandal in baseball. Googling “A-Rod Scandal” returned me 54 million h...
