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50 Best Places To Start A Small Business

FORTUNE Small Business | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Small Business Administration, Small Business, Small Business Owners, States, Economy, Startups, Incentives, US Business, Cities, Business News

Fortune Small Business ranks the 50 best places to start a small business in the U.S. ...

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The Remembered Cause of the Forgotten Columnist

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Herbert, New York Times, Unemployment, Washington Monthly, Cities, T.A. Franks, Urban Policy, Media News

Focusing on the benefits of city living seem to obscure with a rosy tint the issues of crime and poverty, not to mention access and tolerance and equity, with which Bob Herbert wants us to reengage.

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How Cities Drive Plants Extinct

BBC | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Plants, New York City Parks, Herbicide, Urban Plants, Cities, City Parks, Vegetation, Pollution, Green News

An international team of botanists has compared extinction rates of plants within 22 cities around the world. Both Singapore and New York City in the ...

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Bats Find New Homes Under Highways

BBC NEWS | Victoria Gill | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Bats, Caves, Highways, Research, Animals, Cities, Bridges, Green News

Concrete bridges could make better roosts for certain species of bat than natural caves, according to research....

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Meeting our Metropolitan Challenge

Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Urbanization, World Habitat Day, Rockefeller Foundation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Cities, Politics News

The US today hosts World Habitat Day for the first time. It sets a simple question in sharp relief: Will we shape the historic forces driving billions of people to metro regions or will we let these forces shape us?

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Waste Not Want Not: City Living is the Way to a Wealthier Nation

John Petro | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Suburbs, Automobiles, The American Dream, Mass Transit, Green Metropolis, Zoning, David Owen, Ed Glaeser, New York City, Kaid Benfield, Density, Transit-Oriented-Development, Houston, Smart Growth, Cities, Mortgage Interest Deduction, Green News

To reduce the country's excessive energy consumption, we need to make our new and existing suburbs more like cities. This means embracing the principles of smart growth and transit-oriented development.

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Bizjournals: Denver 34th in income growth over last 25 years

Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Per-Capita, Rankings, Cities, Growth, Business, Denver, Top Ten, Income, Home News

Denver ranks 34th in a new bizjournals study of income growth among 100 large U.S. cities over the last quarter-century. ...

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Village Green: Meet Dubai, Vegas on Steroids

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Unsustainability, Sustainability, Consumption, Cities, Dubai, Green News

Dubai may be the most environmentally unsustainable place on earth, certainly among the most conspicuously extravagant, reportedly with the world's highest per-capita rate of natural resource consumption.

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New York State of Mind

David Byrne | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Traffic, David Byrne, Urban Policy, Talking Heads, Rio De Janeiro, Urban Planning, New York City, Bicycling, Streetscapes, Bike Lanes, Cities, Berlin, New York News

Does living in New York City foster a hard-as-nails, no nonsense attitude? Is that how one would describe the New York state of mind?

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Village Green: The World's Best City Park

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Paris, Cities, Parks, Green News

The Jardin du Luxembourg embodies a variety of vistas and experiences, from the majestic old Luxembourg Palace (now the seat of the French Senate), to the pond in the center where kids play with toy boats.

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Village Green: It's Time for a Sustainable Revitalization Agenda for Smaller Cities

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Community, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Historic Preservation, Neighborhoods, Smart Growth, Cities, Green News

Most small New England cities were once booming industrial centers, but over time they became subject to considerable disinvestment in the form of plant closings, job losses, weakened civic infrastructure, and shrinking tax bases.

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Overstimulated: Governors Got The Goods

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vice President Biden, Stimulus, Governors, States, Cities, Brookings Institution, Jobs, Metros, Politics News

If the federal government does not turn its attention to urban areas soon, not only will city residents suffer disproportionately from the downturn but the entire economic recovery will be slowed.

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America's Five Most Stressful Cities

ABC News | Sarah Lynch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Stressful Cities, Forbes, Chicago, Cities, US Cities, Living News

Few enjoy their commute. Just ask Stephen Dinwiddie, M.D., a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago....

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Village Green: Boston's Asian Community Brings Fun, Education & Affordability to Chinatown

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Boston, Asian Americans, Sustainability, Community, Housing, Neighborhoods, Cities, Green News

As has been the case with a lot of the Boston Asian Community Development Corporation's great projects and partnerships, someone had a good idea, ran with it, and created just a little more community than there was before in the neighborhood.

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Village Green: It Takes a Village to Age In Place

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Community, Driving, Aging, Senior Citizens, Neighborhoods, Smart Growth, Cities, Green News

One of the goals of smart growth must be to create neighborhoods that foster "aging in place."

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Want to See Neighborhoods that Beat the Bust? Take a Walk

John F. Wasik | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Boston, Pennsylvania, Living News, New Mexico, Personal Health, Neighborhoods, Health, Home Sales, Georgia, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Cities, New York, Home Foreclosures, Business News

Pedestrian-friendly cities can make huge personal economic sense. If you don't need a car, you can save thousands a year.

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Bring Back Urban Impact Statements

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environmental Impact Statement, President Obama, Cities, President Carter, Urban, Politics News

Bringing Urban and Community Impact Analysis programs back would be a significant step towards unearthing the already existent hidden federal urban agenda.

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Village Green: How to Fix Local Transit & Road Planning

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, Cities, Smart Growth, Transportation, Traffic, Green News

Most of the issues of growth, mobility, equity and the environment that we address here are fundamentally regional in character. But our political mechanisms place most of the authority for dealing with them at the smallest levels of local government.

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Fear of A Double Dip Recession

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Driving, Pattern Language, Cars, Integral Thinking, Obama Economy, Metrosprawl, Oil Economy, Recession, Permaculture, Christopher Alexander, Density, Oil, Communities, Double Dip Recession, Diabetes, Cities, Business News

The enemies remain the car, the superhighway, the notion of endless oil and the willingness to grit teeth and accept the constraints of what passes for life in metrosprawl.

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Village Green: Security Measures Are Degrading the Urban, Architectural (and Human) Experience

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Architecture, Public Space, Urban Planning, Homeland Security, Cities, National Security, Politics News

One of the ways in which city life isn't what it used to be is that so much of what used to be public is no longer public. As a result, some of our humanity is lost, to say nothing of efficient travel.

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Realigning The Third Wheel

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Surowiecki, Mayors, Urban Policy, Federalism, Paul Krugman, Stimulus, Third Stimulus, Cities, States, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Politics News

While the stimulus package directed $140 billion to state governments, the recovery act sent very little money directly to cities, which would generate longer-term dividends for federalism.

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Putting Carter to Rest

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Philadelphia, Office of Urban Affairs, Economist, Great Chicago Fire, Urban Policy, Fred Siegel, Jimmy Carter, Cities, Denver, Barack Obama, Manhattan Institute, Politics News

President Obama seems committed to shifting federal urban policymaking from a reactive, "Marshall Plan"-type strategy to a proactive, cooperative approach.

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Who's Still Being Left out in the Stimulus?

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Public Transportation, Poor, Economic Recovery, Barack Obama, Cities, Transportation, Politics News

The federal transportation bill working its way through Congress offers a terrific opportunity to invest specifically in urban infrastructure needs.

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Green Shoots, Urban Policy Edition

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Office of Urban Affairs, Urban Policy, National Journal, Politico, Adolfo Carrion, Washington Post, Barack Obama, Urban and Metropolitan Policy Roundtable, Cities, Politics News

Though this is less robust a beginning than urban policy advocates might have liked, Obama will address the Urban and Metropolitan Policy Roundtable, which demonstrates his continued commitment to cities.

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Village Green: How to Make Smart, City Neighborhoods Even Greener

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, Green Living, Pollution, Neighborhoods, Cities, Smart Growth, Green News

We need compact development, not large lots, to protect our waterways. But how do we soften the localized impacts of density and deal with the stormwater that runs off of dense urban sites?

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