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May 29
Natural Hair Care Act Passes in Oregon
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Hair braiding, by flickr user stevendepoloIn a win for fairness and common sense, the state of Oregon will no longer subject people who practice African-style hair braiding (and other forms of natural...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 29
Brookings job sprawl report
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The latest report on job sprawl by Elizabeth Kneebone of the Brookings Institution said that the recession "helped drive a slight uptick in urban core job share in more than half of the nation's large...
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
Ghost War
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[Image: A "ghost" tank; image via PBS]....
Bldgblog
May 29
Ghost War
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[Image: A "ghost" tank; image via PBS]....
BLDGBLOG
May 29
Recent Housing Center reports
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The Housing Research & Advocacy Center issued two of its yearly reports....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
2030 District gets grant
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A $175,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation enabled the the Cleveland 2030 District to hire architect Jon Reidy as its executive director (PDF)....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
NYC: Why Joe Rides
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Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov
Joe Zaro owns Zaro’s, a local chain of bakeries with locations in Grand Central and Penn Station, among others....
Streetsblog
May 29
Brownfields Are Just Untapped Assets
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President Obama has made revitalizing local communities that have been hit hard by the decline of manufacturing a priority, said Jay Williams, the new White House deputy director of intergovernmental...
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 29
Strongsville interchange proposal
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Leaders in Strongsville hope that funding from the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission will be used to build more noise barriers along the Ohio Turnpike and Interstate 71....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
NYC: Today’s Headlines
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A Peek at Four Visions for Penn Station From Architecture Firms Selected by MAS (NYT)
2nd Ave Sagas Blasts Bill Perkins For Obstructing 125th Street Bus Improvements
CB 12 Requested Uptown Bike Lanes,...
Streetsblog
May 29
Wednesday briefing
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Jones Lang LaSalle will manage 10.5M square of state-owned and leased office properties. Tennessean
Lamar Alexander says 'no chance' TVA will be sold....
Property Scope
May 29
Phase two casino plans
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While skeptics have questioned whether the phase two casino in downtown Cleveland will ever be built, City officials are confident it will proceed....
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog
May 29
Free NY/NJ Ferry Service For Bicyclists?
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The epic, years-long battle for converting one Holland Tunnel tube to a bicycle/pedestrian-only facility may find compromise in this proposed free ticket voucher program for bicycle-toting ferry passe...
Planetizen Interchange
May 29
Plan Bay Area Debate
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The Antiplanner will be in Marin County, California tomorrow to debate Plan Bay Area, the “sustainability” plan for the nine-county region....
The Antiplanner
May 28
Put a Face on Climate Change
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Photo: iStock.Scientist and Yale communications researcher Anthony Leiserowitz recently lamented that when it comes to climate change “You almost couldn’t design a problem that is a worse fit with our...
Sightline - The Daily Score blog
May 28
East Coast, West Coast – What about Our Coast?
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Most Americans take it as an article of faith that there’s a strong connection and relationship between the major cities of the East and West coasts. Indeed, there may be 3,000 miles separating Ne...
Newgeography.com
May 28
NYC: Why I-Hsing Rides
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Photo copyright Dmitry Gudkov
I met I-Hsing on her morning commute from the South Street Seaport area, where she’d dropped off her kids at school, to her job near Bryant Park....
Streetsblog
May 28
Bike-sharing arrives in New York City via Citi Bike
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Citi Bike, America’s largest bike-sharing system opened in New York City on Monday. Photo by shinya.
New York City has joined the ranks of U.S. cities now offering bike-sharing systems....
The City Fix
May 28
Dewhirst, Heinz buy on Broadway
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David Dewhirst and Mark Heinz have bought a pair of properties in the Broadway-Central Street corridor.
The downtown developers recently acquired an empty warehouse on Broadway and a vacant lot on La...
Property Scope
May 28
Logistics firm signs Miller's Building lease
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Joe Petre, of Conversion Properties, passed along word that Chattanooga-based logistics firm American Access Transport has leased 9,000 square feet on the third floor of the Miller's Building.
The Ga...
Property Scope
May 28
The back door
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Paul Bloom had another wonderful essay in a recent New Yorker ("The Baby in the Well: The case against empathy"). It is all about hard to achieve wisdom and perspective. "...[w]hen [Natalie] Holloway...
Peter Gordon's Blog
May 28
CNU 21: Day 1
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Welcome to CNU 21. The Strong Towns Team is planning a lot of cool stuff, from some blog posts to some video and audio. We'll link to it all here as the days unfold....
Strong Towns
May 28
Civic Horticulture: Productive Gardens
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society just organized a conference on Civic Horticulture in Philadelphia....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 28
Civic Horticulture: The Street
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society just organized a conference on Civic Horticulture in Philadelphia....
ASLA.org - The Dirt
May 28
Heading to Salt Lake City
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Sitting here at MSP with Justin Burslie, waiting to board a flight to CNU in Salt Lake City....
Strong Towns
May 28
NYC: Today’s Headlines
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Bike-Share Headlines:
Bike-Share Debuts, Giving New Yorkers a New Transit Option (NYT, AP, WSJ, News)
In First Six Hours, Bike-Share Logged 6,050 Trips, 13,768 Miles, And Totaled 16,...
Streetsblog

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