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Graphic: Five Major Bike Share Systems, and Their Naysayers

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Next American City 2013-05-21 15:32:30
Credit: Tactile Group If you haven?t noticed by all the hand wringing and indignant opinions flying around the Internet of late, New York City is set to have its two-years-in-the-making bike share program operational by the end of this month. Truth is, New York has come late to the bike share game. U.S. cities big and small have had successful bike share …

Minimum Parking Requirement Threatens to Shut Down Austin?s Casa de Luz

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Next American City 2013-05-21 12:00:26
Casa de Luz has had no problems installing parking for bicycles but that is not enough, city officials say. Credit: Gideon Tsang on Flickr Boneheaded local politics sometimes displace beloved institutions. Every city goes through the heartbreak of watching new zoning laws push out the local ice cream shop by the little league ball fields or throwing your favorite breakfast spot by …

In Toronto, a Casino in Search of a Problem

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Next American City 2013-05-21 10:00:08
John Street in Toronto, site of proposed plans to make the thoroughfare more welcoming to pedestrians. Credit: Brady Dale Until last week, the City of Toronto had considered authorizing the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to build a casino in its downtown. But Mayor Rob Ford on Thursday announced the deal was off, evidently because the funding formula proposed for the new …

SLIDSHOW: The Italian Market Festival in South Philadelphia

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Next American City 2013-05-20 22:30:41
Credit: Allyn Gaestel Wafts of cigar smoke mingled with the scent of roasting sausages and aromatherapy candles. Italian flags bedecked cupcakes, canolis and sparkled-on painted faces. Undeterred by a drizzle, children danced with bubbles in front of a display of Mexican wrestling masks. Vendors hawked tamales and pina coladas next to Challah French toast, mango lassis, Peroni beer and limoncello liqueur. Stalls …

Suburban Poverty Rates Soar Across America

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Next American City 2013-05-20 15:55:07
Credit: mtsn on Flickr. Poverty isn?t just an urban issue anymore. The poverty rates across America have soared in recent years, but since 2000 have increased twice as fast in the American suburbs (53 percent) as in cities (23 percent), according to a new book from the Brookings Institution, Confronting Suburban Poverty in America. Concentrated poverty is still a markedly urban problem, …

Let?s Get High: Washington D.C. Needs to Ease Height Restrictions

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Next American City 2013-05-20 13:00:44
Credit: David Baron on Flickr If you?ve ever visited Washington, D.C., you might wonder why the skyline is so horizontal. Why, in the capital of a very, very powerful nation, are most of the buildings roughly the same height as a college dorm? It?s because of an arcane, century-old law ? the Height of Buildings Act of 1910 ? that essentially caps building …

Forefront Excerpt: But What About the Baby?

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Next American City 2013-05-20 11:00:02
Credit: Allison Shelley In Forefront this week, Next City Fellow Allyn Gaestel tells the story of two Philadelphia mothers ? one living in Center City, the other in North Philly ? to see how the stark gap in maternal health and infant care plays out for urban parents. Ocasio was a 10th-grader at Thomas Alva Edison High School when she became pregnant. The …

Introducing The Equity Factor, Our Brand New Blog About Urban Economic Development

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Next American City 2013-05-20 11:00:02
Credit: Bill Bradley. Welcome to the Equity Factor, Next City?s new economic development blog. Every day I will be exploring ways to keep cities growing without sacrificing the things we love about them: Diversity, affordability, character and inclusiveness. In the last generation, we?ve seen many cities grow and thrive, but we?ve also seen troubling increases in wealth disparities and displacement. Through …

?I Think I Met Him in a Sewer?: On Urban Easter Eggs and Moses Gates? ?Hidden Cities?

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Next American City 2013-05-17 17:49:21
Bradley L. Garrett on the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland. Credit: Helen Carlton Following up on my review of Moses Gates? Hidden Cities, Next City enlisted Bradley Garrett, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of London studying urban exploration or ?place hacking,? to talk about Gates’ book, how the notion of public and private space differs depending on where you are, and …

Five Reasons Why Toronto Mayor Rob Ford May Have Smoked Crack Cocaine

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Next American City 2013-05-17 15:52:05
The likeness of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford flipping us the bird. Credit: Mary Crandall on Flickr By now you have probably read about the alleged video portraying someone who looks like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. No media outlet has the video as of this writing ? so if the thing exists, you can?t view it yet ? but no …

Arts, Music and Food in Next City?s ?Hood This Weekend

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Next American City 2013-05-17 15:38:46
Children playing on Girard Avenue in Brewerytown. Credit: Tieshka Smith Fellow Philadelphians, take note: This Saturday, the Brewerytown Spring Festival will be going down in Next City’s home neighborhood. Between noon and 5pm, you can find live music, displays by local artists, food vendors and a bunch of kids’ activities on a two-block stretch of W. Girard Avenue (between the 2600 and …

Chicago Considers Reining in the Pedicabs

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Next American City 2013-05-17 11:00:01
A pedicab in Minneapolis. Credit: Ernesto De Quesada on Flickr Those of us who commute on two wheels often face tense situations with drivers, pedestrians, other cyclists and even police officers who don?t know about the ways that bikes can legally travel on city streets. Now, imagine what cyclists whose bikes are four feet wide and hauling between one and three passengers …

Place and Access (or the Lack Thereof) in Moses Gates? ?Hidden Cities?

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Next American City 2013-05-16 16:45:40
The “Freedom Tunnel,” an abandoned Amtrak tunnel beneath Manhattan. Credit: Wikimedia user Futurebird It’s a common feeling: You?re walking through a city at night, doing something banal, thinking you might like to be doing something cooler. And then you think that somewhere, probably not too far from you, a bunch of people are having a really amazing time, and if you only …

A New Model for Art World Collaboration In Philadelphia

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Next American City 2013-05-16 15:50:32
Contemporary artwork like this piece from Vox Populi will move across the city through the CITYWIDE art collaboration. Credit: Christopher McManus This November, a collection of artist-run galleries across Philadelphia will join forces on a new mode of collaborative exhibition they are calling CITYWIDE. The idea is deceptively simple: Instead of competing with one another, participating galleries will partner with one another …

Announcing the 2013 Vanguard Class

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Next American City 2013-05-16 10:00:04
Downtown Cleveland, where the 2013 Vanguard Conference will be held. Photo by Frank Lanza. Just two weeks after we collected nearly 200 applications for this year?s Vanguard class, we?ve selected 40 people whose bright ideas for cities, experience in the field and ambition for the future all show great promise. This year’s group is more geographically diverse than ever, with members hailing …

Dr. Dre Jumps on the Entrepreneurship Bandwagon

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Next American City 2013-05-15 21:10:19
Dr. Dre is the latest celeb to catch the entrepreneurship bug. We’re wondering when we can sign up for his TED talk. Credit: Jason Persee on Flickr Hip hop mogul Dr. Dre and the man who discovered him, record producer Jimmy Iovine, are the latest converts in the nation’s ever-growing cult of entrepreneurship. Dre, whose birth name is Andre Young, and Iovine are …

A Model to Prevent Future Factory Collapses in Bangladesh Could Be Here in the U.S.

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Next American City 2013-05-15 18:14:21
Credit: Project Repat Planet Money?s Adam Davidson has a story in this weekend?s New York Times Magazine about what he calls the ?t-shirt phase.? Basically: Most rich countries go through an economic growth period where an excess of poor farmers work for low wages in unsafe textile factories. Britain, Davidson notes, went through its t-shirt phase in the late 18th century. America …

North of Salt Lake City, a 21st-Century Highway Revolt

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Next American City 2013-05-15 16:13:19
Construction of the Legacy Parkway, which UDOT plans to extend north, was held up for years due to a lawsuit. Credit: Flickr user CountyLemonade Activists and advocates who speak highly of those energizing days when community groups banded together to stop highway projects should consider a trip to Salt Lake City. Just north of the Utah capital, a fight to block construction …

L.A.?s Mid-Century Past May Be Sexy, But It?s Still the Past

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Next American City 2013-05-15 09:59:46
California may be getting denser even as much of the rest of the country appears to move in the other direction, but that doesn?t mean nostalgia for its storied car culture is going anywhere fast. A new exhibit, now on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and which will hit Washington, D.C.?s National Building Museum this fall, …

Competition Seeks to Establish ?Chief Resilience Officer? in 100 Cities Worldwide

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Next American City 2013-05-14 15:35:17
The Rockefeller Foundation today launched a $100 million competition to make 100 cities worldwide more resilient to natural disasters. The plan? Help these cities hire a “chief resilience officer,” a new type of government official in charge of preparing for and recovering from floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and the like. The competition, called the ?100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge,? will have three rounds. …

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