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Jakarta, sustainable Africa, pyongyangapalooza, spiritual Antarctica, zero-carbon UK, more
New book from urban scholar, Christopher Silver, calls the city of Jakarta “chaotic, yet well planned.”
DailyWorst Fears Realized
Ariella Cohen remembers a reporting trip to Haiti, during which an international aid consultant expressed her fears of an earthquake. Plus, a republished feature article from Issue 21 about the hurricane-ravaged cities of New Orleans and Gonaives, which Cohen wrote after her visit.
DailyRecap: World Urban Forum 5
A team from Penn IUR blogged from World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janiero, hosted by UN Habitat. Take a look at their reports and takeaways. The latest: an unexpected encounter in the Rocinha slum.
DailyWhen You’re Building Green, Don’t Forget the Transportation Component
The Department of Energy completes work on a huge zero-carbon building in Colorado. But the structure doesn’t address the negative ecological effects of automobile dependence.
DailyFinding Appropriate Tools to Mitigate the Construction Process
The Twin Cities provide business loans to help business owners make it through a difficult period.
DailyClarksdale’s Blues Museum Lays the Foundation for the City’s Future
Tourism, centered in at the city’s former freight depot, may hit the right spot for the rural city of Clarksdale.
DailyUrban Nation Abroad: Bogotá!
Bogotá faced serious transportation and planning issues — and still does — but one mayor invested in the city’s future, and got amazing results. What lessons can we learn from this?
DailyLook Out? Building a BRT line in California is No Simple Matter
A proposed bus rapid transit system for Oakland, Berkeley, and San Leandro raises excitement as well as fears.
DailyHow Income Inequality Helps Explain Contemporary Urban America
Timothy Noah, on Slate, is putting out an excellent series on the growing income inequality here in the United States. How has this history of income compressions and divergences helped shaped the places we live?
DailyThe Front Lines of the Blight Fight: Part II
The last days of the Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference featured a speech from Secretary Shaun Donovan as well as copious examples of initiatives in urban gardening, land reclamation and smart growth planning. Also, download a report outlining strategies for reclaiming vacant properties.
DailyApply Now: This Month’s Competitions
Three ongoing competitions for planners and architects.
DailyThe Real Reason Why Bicycles are the Key to Better Cities
The most vital element for the future of our cities is that the bicycle is an instrument of experiential understanding. It is a thrilling tool of communication, an experiential device for the beauty and the ills of the urban context.
DailyThe Pitch: A One-Stop Mobile Information Shop for Transit Services
A study conducted by Latitude asked regular drivers in Boston and San Francisco to go car-free for one full week. The results point to many opportunities for mobile information to reduce dependence on driving by improving the experience of taking more sustainable transit.
DailyHigh Line Builder Showered NYC Officials With Forbidden Gifts, Paid No Price
The High Line is one of New York City’s most innovative uses of public space in recent memory. But a major developer attached to the project gave city officials some generous — and very illegal — gifts. While those who took the bribe were punished, the company that offered it…
DailyGoing Solar in Bay Area Cities
A plan unveiled at a meeting of green advocates in Oakland yesterday envisions nearly 4,000 megawatts of solar energy powering the Bay Area by 2020. Can it reduce the state’s dependency on coal and stave off the temptation to turn to natural gas?
FeaturesThe Life and Death of America’s Biggest Redevelopment Program
How California pulled the plug on a $5.6 billion tax increment financing-powered program.
DailyYears Late and $1 Million Over Budget, New Orleans Gets Its Cottages
A look back at the boondoggling cronyism that plagued a once-promising New Orleans program to house victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
FeaturesFive Ways Metro Areas Can Reach Beyond City Borders
From Denver to Detroit, here’s how cities can harness their networks of public, private and community institutions.
FeaturesAdding Up the True Cost of Rio’s Slum Makeovers
What the international development community can learn from the Brazilian city’s controversial attempt to bring urban renewal to its poorest neighborhoods.
FeaturesWelcome to Your New Government
…asks what it means for Detroit and cities like it when local government relies on private organizations to turn around a neighborhood’s fate. With an eye to the evolution of our increasingly privatized cities, Clark explores the rise of CDCs and the questions they face as they grow to be…