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?More Park, Less Way?: Re-Urbanizing Philly?s Ben Franklin Parkway

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Next American City 2013-02-11 17:23:13
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, with the iconic Art Museum in the background. Credit: Flickr user elPadawan Last week, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter proclaimed the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to be his city?s ?most important? civic and cultural space. As recently as a decade ago, that would have been a borderline absurd statement. Today, it?s a plausible one. And in the not so …

In War and on City Streets, the Similar Threat of PTSD

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Next American City 2013-02-11 16:32:07
Soldiers fighting in Afghanistan Credit U.S. Army The shooting death of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle earlier this month has sparked a debate about the damaging effects of post traumatic stress disorder among veterans. Largely left out of the discussion, however, are the young men and women living in urban areas with high rates of violent crime — people who are more …

Forefront Excerpt: Waking the Sleeping Tiger

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Next American City 2013-02-11 11:00:02
Credit: Mosireen About two years have passed since protests in Cario?s Tahrir Square kicked off a revolution that toppled a dictatorship and sent ripples through not only Egypt, but the entire Arab world. Ongoing political unrest, though, has led to a revolution of a different sort: One of ordinary Cairenes and the ways they interact with the changing urban landscape around them. …

Rallying for the City

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Next American City 2013-02-08 18:32:52
Aaron Perlut remembers how reluctant he was to move to St. Louis. But upon arriving, the public relations and digital marketing strategist quickly realized there was plenty to be excited about. The city, however, had to let people know that. So Perlut launched the ?St. Louis Doesn?t Suck? campaign, which highlights the city?s employment opportunities, affordability, and educational and cultural resources. …

SLIDESHOW: A Snow Day in Detroit

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Next American City 2013-02-08 18:13:02
On a recent snowy weekday, I had the good fortune to be in Detroit with time to explore two of the city’s best-loved art spots. Find some information about the artists and the ideas, materials and environment with which they work in the slideshow below. Also, be sure to check out all the good work by The Imagination Station and The …

Former Camden Prison Site Cleared for Redevelopment

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Next American City 2013-02-08 17:50:23
Camden’s since-demolished Riverfront State Prison as seen from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Credit: Lisa Campeau on Flickr New Jersey officials passed a law on Thursday that permits the sale of a former state prison site in North Camden, opening up 16 acres along the city?s waterfront for redevelopment. Riverfront State Prison opened in 1985 amid hopes that it would, according to then-Gov. …

For Host Cities, the Super Bowl as a Carrot

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Next American City 2013-02-08 11:00:14
Pogue?s Run Grocer opened in Indianapolis’ Near Eastside largely thanks to seed money from the NFL. Ann Marie Hanlon has lived in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the Near Eastside section of Indianapolis for close to 35 years. She still remembers the day bulldozers ripped homes from the earth at the corner of New York Street and Highland Avenue to make …

EveryBlock Shuts Down

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Next American City 2013-02-07 19:29:52
EveryBlock eventually grew to serve 16 cities around the country. EveryBlock, a national news aggregator that allowed users to search for hyper-local stories based on address, Zip code or neighborhood, ceased publishing today, according to a blog post on its website. ?Within the world of neighborhood news there?s an exciting pace of innovation yet increasing challenges to building a profitable business,? goes the …

Sim City for the Second City

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Next American City 2013-02-07 18:45:41
Juan-Pablo Velez is a freelance data journalist and member of Open City, a civic tech collective. Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the City of Chicago is embracing open data to fuel civic innovation ? the idea that if governments liberate their data on transit, crime, buildings and the like, technologists will build useful things with it. New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and many …

A Closer Look at Ed Koch?s Affordable Housing Legacy

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Next American City 2013-02-07 14:53:08
Koch in 2007. Credit: Flickr user Boss Tweed At the inauguration for his first term as mayor of New York in 1978, Edward Koch spoke of the hardships that had plagued the city for more than a decade. ?These have been hard times,? said Koch, who passed away this month. ?We have been drawn across the knife-edge of poverty. We have been shaken …

PA, Like Other States, Considers Gas Tax to Pay for Transpo Projects

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Next American City 2013-02-07 11:00:29
MBTA commuter train Credit: Flickr user matthrono Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett this week proposed a 25-cent tax increase on gasoline over the next five years, joining a group of at least 13 state governments that have turned to tax increases as a potential means to pay for transportation projects. Projected to create $510 million in extra revenue next year, Corbett’s plan would raise …

A Remote Courthouse Leaves Many Chicagoans Far From Justice

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Next American City 2013-02-06 15:24:04
The George N. Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago’s Southwest Side. Credit: Flickr user yooperann Last year, Chicago saw 506 homicides, 1,383 sexual assaults and more than 13,000 robberies. Along with tens of thousands of other felony cases, these crimes were all adjudicated at the George N. Leighton Criminal Court Building on the city?s Southwest Side. It is the nation?s busiest courthouse, …

VIDEO: God Created Transit

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Next American City 2013-02-06 12:38:37
I can’t deny that the “God Created a Farmer” ad for Dodge’s RAM trucks was beautiful. The ad’s imagery was Americana at its finest. Paul Harvey, whose voice animated the pictures, in and of itself stunned me. Like other ads coming out of the Chrysler car company, it put a lump in my throat. And yet, the ad, like the one …

Report: As Congestion Worsens, Public Transit?s Benefits Grow

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Next American City 2013-02-06 11:00:02
Credit: Texas A&M Transportation Institute If traffic jams make you grit your teeth, just wait until you hear what they do to your wallet. The total cost of traffic congestion in urban areas around the country has grown by about $27 billion since 2000, according to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute?s 2012 Annual Urban Mobility Report. Taking into account fuel use and …

Last Dance: Bloomberg?s Budget Legacy

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Next American City 2013-02-05 13:52:18
Outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Credit: World Bank Photo Collection Michael Bloomberg gave the final preliminary budget presentation of his mayoral administration last week, signaling the end of an era in New York City politics. Observers were forced to wonder what would become of the city?s annual ?budget dance,? in which fiscally conservative Bloomberg clashed with the liberal City Council …

The Softer Side of Brutalism

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Next American City 2013-02-05 11:00:36
The J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Wally Gobetz on Flickr Brutalism is what it sounds like. While most kinds of architecture are designed to be inviting to visit or beautiful to look at, Brutalist buildings dare you to enter them and discourage you from getting too comfortable. Characterized by cold materials, heavy massing and rigid, rectangular forms, Brutalism found …

The Fight for the Mount Laurel Doctrine

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Next American City 2013-02-04 18:59:00
Affordable housing projects in Jersey City, N.J. Credit: Flickr user dotpolka Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland released a study finding that poverty is on the rise across the nation. Midwest urban areas have seen particularly intense spikes, while Northern cities have the heaviest concentrations of urban poor. As the report notes: [T]his increase was most rapid in neighborhoods that …

The Problem of the Police-Community Divide

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Next American City 2013-02-04 17:30:21
Police making an arrest in Chicago. Credit: Flickr user grendelkhan On a Tuesday afternoon late last month, 15-year-old Hadiyah Pendleton and her friends were hanging out in a Chicago park shortly after finishing exams at their nearby high school. Around 2:30pm, an unknown gunman appeared from an alley and opened fire before escaping to a getaway car. Pendleton, who just days before …

Dispatch from NOLA: What Happens When Your City Puts Tourists First

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Next American City 2013-02-04 15:11:07
A run-down school in Central City, with the Superdome in the background. Credit: Steve Beatty/The Lens It?s fairly safe to say that, of the estimated 150,000 visitors to New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII, approximately zero attended the party I went to in New Orleans on Saturday night. Carnival celebrations were officially suspended in Orleans Parish this weekend because of the game …

Forefront Excerpt: Downtown Roulette

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Next American City 2013-02-04 11:00:17
Credit: Frank Lanza Last year, after Ohio became the latest state to legalize casino gambling, its first gaming complex opened in downtown Cleveland. Casinos in Toledo and Columbus appeared soon thereafter, and another is slated for Cincinnati. In Forefront this week, writer Anna Clark examines the industry, from these Ohio upstarts to longtime gambling haven Atlantic City, to find out casinos belong …

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