Rise and Shine: Mapping America’s Finest City

Your morning link roundup from The Shared City, featuring San Diego’s on-going redefinition, the health benefits of good neighbors and the latest in SimCity news.

San Diego is attempting to decide where to put its bike share bikes. Credit: Flickr user Tomcio77

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Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.

  • California is now the first state in the U.S. to officially sign off on ride sharing by name, with the state Public Utilities Commission passing rules yesterday that allow the practice to continue with light regulation.
  • San Diego is debating where to put its coming 1,800 bike share bikes, using stickers, maps and poster board to do so.
  • The city is also debating where food trucks can operate, with city code prohibiting them from private property but enforcement having “slacked off,” per a local news station, under recently resigned Mayor Bob Filner.
  • The Texas city of Denton is considering participating in the “living charrette” that is Better Block, though some have questioned whether the $40,000 project “wasn’t something the city could do on its own.”
  • At The Atlantic Cities, Sarah Goodyear reports that, “when it comes to preventing a stroke, living in a neighborhood where you have strong social ties and feel comfortable may be as important as not smoking.”
  • SimCity will get a “Cities of Tomorrow” expansion pack in November.
  • City officials in Petaluma, Calif. will meet Monday to discuss “ways to force people who rent temporary rooms using services like Airbnb to pay the same kind of tax hotels charge,” reports the local Patch site.
  • Over at The Atlantic, Jathan Sadowski details “11 principles for relating to cities that are automated and smart.”
  • Streetsblog has the numbers on the growth of New York City’s Citi Bike a hundred days in: “54 employees in its Brooklyn call center, an in-house bike shop that repairs about 150 bikes each day and makes an additional 50 repairs in the field, and 11 rebalancing teams working three shifts to move about 2,500 bikes around the city daily.”
  • And the New York Times’ Elaine Louie finds that Cheesecake, a Mendocino County, Calif. co-housing community, seems to be chugging along rather well after 20 years.
  • And a programming note: Your host of The Shared City — that’s me, Nancy Scola — is taking next week off, and looks forward to diving ever deeper into the changing roles that organize city life when she gets back.

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    Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.

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