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Twenty-one global Cities nominate solutions to meet challenges for 110 million citizens.
The Urbanist Dispatch is proud to be a collaborating partner for the Living Labs Global Award 2012. New innovative ideas are needed to move cities forward, and the 2012 nominees have been announced! Please check out the following press release: Living Labs Global jointly with 21 global cities has announced a shortlist of over 100 innovative, [...]
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell defends cities, Obama budget
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 reasons why he supports the budget as our President has proposed, citing a lack of local funds and struggles in keeping services such as [...]
Cash strapped Los Angeles may have to pay for new sidewalks. Will your city?
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 against the disabled. Over two decades later, we are seeing frustrations shift against those who are supposed to keep the best interests of the people [...]
Crying Over Spilled Gas, Cause it Might Cost More
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 respondents were opposed to raising the federal gas tax. There is a general distrust with the government in spending [...]
How would YOU make cities better?
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 prize winner! The Living Labs Global Award 2012 aims to discover new ways to improve on one [...]
Perceptions on Density: Is it too crowded in Big Sky Country?
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 be much of a fuss. After all, Montana has more senators than it does house representatives (by comparison, the [...]
2012 APA National Planning Award Winners Announced
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 want to live and grow. Here is a quick roundup of the award winners. National Planning Excellence Award Winners The Daniel Burnham Award for a [...]
Highway to Greenway
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 ground highway. The article touches on other urban areas turned green as well, but Madrid Rio seems [...]
The Best GOP candidates on High Speed Rail are Newt Gingrich….and Ron Paul?
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 being able to gauge their feelings on the subject has been less then meets the eye. We have seen only the [...]
Clean The City, of Visual Pollution
An article from Good highlights the astonishing law that Sao Paulo, Brazil passed back in 2006 that aimed to clean up the city. That is, of visual pollution. The Clean City Law was a bold move to take down and manage signage throughout the major city. The video above highlights before and after shots of [...]
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