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Thanksgiving in Five Points: Poverty and Plenty

Weston Gentry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Five Points, Poverty, Thanksgiving 2010, Hipsters, Denver-Colorado, Denver, Thanksgiving, Gentrification, Latino Community, Suburbs, Denver News
Weston Gentry

Poverty is the biggest problem in my neighborhood. In fact, it's a problem in all of Denver. This reality really hit home when I happened upon two Latino mothers foraging in the dumpsters behind my house.

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On the Necessity of a GBF

Sarah Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Suburbs, Gbf, Friendship, Female Friends, Children, Carrie Bradshaw, Brooklyn, Gay Best Friend, Stanford, Gay Friends, Applecare, Mercedes, Entertainment News
Sarah Rose

I love my gay best friend, not least because he has the same plumbing and wiring as the men I date. It's not a bad idea to have someone on call who has deep technical knowledge -- it's like calling AppleCare.

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City Shaping II: Will Architecture Go Horizontal?

Charles A. Birnbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Architecture, Harvard, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Urbanism, New Urbanism, Suburbs, Urban Planning, Landscapes, Arts News
Charles A. Birnbaum

Landscape Urbanism sees landscape architecture, rather than architecture, as the design medium more capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience.

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Village Green: Healing With Sustainable Places

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Suburbs, Community, Sustainability, Neighborhoods, Health, Cities, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

    Can an urban place be located and designed so that it nourishes and heals?  Mark Holland, one of the key principals involved in the...

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Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly During Economic Downturn

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Poverty, Suburbs, Suburbs Poverty, Suburban Poverty, Third World America, Economy, Suburban Poor, Business News

WASHINGTON — The American suburb is no longer a refuge from poverty in cities. A pair of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paints...

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'Suburban Nation'

Jeff Speck | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Suburbs, Public Schools, House, Infrastructure, Green Infrastructure, Housing Market, Suburbia, Chicago Suburbs, Housing, Suburban, National Infrastructure, Slidepollajax, Sprawl, The Suburbs, Housing Crisis, Urban Sprawl, Books News
Jeff Speck

But now, a preference has become a mandate, as sprawl has quietly been identified as a central cause behind a growing list of mounting national crises including foreign oil dependency, climate change, and the obesity epidemic.

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Evanston Named One Of America's Coolest Suburbs By Travel And Leisure

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Suburbs, Chicago Culture, Suburban Chicago, Chicago Suburbs, Evanston, Chicago Getaways, Chicago News

For years, the suburbs were regarded as vast, generic wastelands. The architecture of the city was miles away, and there was the misconception that su...

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The Real Red Scare

Laura Barrett | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Suburbs, Keith Gessen, Traffic, Sprawl, New Yorker, Public Transportation, Transportation, Politics News
Laura Barrett

Moscow stands as a warning to us. Without adequate investment in public transportation and a concerted effort to combat sprawl, our metropolitan areas face a grim future.

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Slicing Away Some of Suburbia

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Attorneys, Suburbs, Small Business, Tenants, Real Estate Prices, Small Business Failure, Real-Estate-Values, Renegotiations, Commercial Real Estate, New York, Landlords, Business News
Lita Smith-Mines

The disappearance of another pizza parlor shouldn't have had much of an impact on me. What's bothering me is that there are proprietors failing in just about every business area around town.

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America Becomes a Little More Like Paris

Algernon Austin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Metropolitan, Population, Suburbs, Economic Policy Institute, Race, Cities, World News
Algernon Austin

In Paris, the central city is wealthier and whiter than the suburbs. In the US, the demographics have been the reverse. In the 21st century, the United States has begun to look a little more like Paris.

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Suburbs Losing Young Whites To Cities, Brookings Institution Finds

AP / Huffington Post | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Whites, Suburbs, Baby Boomers, Austin, Jobs, Atlanta, Hispanics, Portland, New York City, Census, Dc, Young Professionals, Asians, Blacks, Washington, Cultural Generation Gap, Cities, Minorities, Business News

WASHINGTON - White flight? In a reversal, America's suburbs are now more likely to be home to minorities, the poor and a rapidly growing older populat...

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Sarah McKenzie: A Nation Of Builders, And Of Artists

John Seed | Posted 04.11.2012 | Home
Read More: Suburbs, Biennial of the Americas, Lauri Lynxxe Murphy, Contemporary Art, Construction, Sprawl, Objectophilia, Development, Sarah McKenzie, Female Artists, Denver, Home News
John Seed

There isn't a single human figure in any of McKenzie's works of the past five years; they aren't necessary. Construction, a metaphor for human work, desire and hope stands in for actual human presence.

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Green News Report: July 6, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Suburbs, Yucca Mountain, Sewage, Bp, Organophosphates, Carbon Emissions, Oil Spill Response, Nuclear Power, Michael Mann, Clean Energy, Tibet, Subsidies, Green News Report, Climategate, China, Toxic Chemicals, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Fossil Fuels, Green News, Sustainability, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, India, BP Oil Spill, Global Warming Deniers, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Solar Power, Solar Thermal Power, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: A solar boos...

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Our Broken Regions - Fixing the Hidden Cause of our Economic Downfall

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Sustainability, Regions, Housing, Equity, Transit, Barack Obama, Transportation, Suburbs, Community Revival, Urban Policy, Shaun Donovan, Housing and Urban Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Politics News
Angela Glover Blackwell

Sustainable regions are only possible if all people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Areas that embrace this "regional equity" focus will be on the fast-track to economic stability and growth.

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Coyotes Attack Girl In Front Of Westchester Home

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Coyotes, Suburbs, New York, Wild Animals, Westchester County, Child, Coyote Attack, Little Girl, Rye, Rabies, New York News

RYE, N.Y. — Police say a 6-year-old girl was scratched and bitten by a pair of coyotes who charged her as she played with friends in the front y...

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The Biggest-Spending Suburbs In The U.S. (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Suburbs, Big-Spending Suburbs, Slidepollajax, Business News

Life in America's wealthiest suburbs never seemed so good. Bundle, a company that studies how people spend and save, released a report today on the 20...

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The Very Worst Happens In Anna Quindlen's 'Every Last One.' You'll Weep. Then The Healing Starts.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Suburbs, Anna Quindlen, Every Last One, Fiction, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

A very bad thing --- for a wife and mother, the worst possible thing --- happens right at the halfway mark of Every Last One, and if I tell you what i...

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Village Green: Sick of the Spill? Stop Sprawl, Support Revitalization

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Suburbs, Sustainability, Driving, Bp, Development, Gulf Oil Spill, Cities, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

Enraged at the spill in the Gulf and the American appetite for oil that ultimately caused it?  Stop land development on farmland, forests and oth...

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The American Economy and the American Dream

Joe Costello | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Suburbs, Public Transit, Classism, Car, Suburbia, Budget Cuts, Subways, Public Transportation, Racism, Atlanta, Buses, Class, Wealth Gap, Business News
Joe Costello

Clayton County, a majority black district abutting Atlanta, is about to have is about to have its public transportation system cancelled, according to a must-read article in the LA Times.

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An Urban or Suburban Future: A Review of Foreclosing the Dream by William H. Lucy

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Foreclosures, Suburbs, Foreclosure Crisis, Sprawl, Joel Kotkin, Urbanism, William H.Lucy, Housing Bubble, Books News
Frank Gruber

Professor William Lucy believes that America has reached a point where the long trend toward more dispersed and suburban living is turning toward a more urban future.

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Village Green: "I watched the growth - it's become 'Paradise Lost' for me"

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Towns, Suburbs, Community, Sustainability, Sprawl, Housing, Rural America, Smart Growth, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

Today’s title comes from Jeff Holm, chair of the Board of Supervisors for Baldwin Township, Minnesota.  Baldwin is a rural community s...

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Village Green: Is a Building Still Historic if Moved Out of Context?

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Suburbs, Religion, Historic Preservation, Development, Urban Planning, Cities, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

The question is posed directly in the case of the spectacular old St. Gerard's Roman Catholic basilica in Buffalo, which is now likely to be moved to an Atlanta suburb.

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Village Green: Some Fighting Words About Suburban Sprawl

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Suburbs, Sustainability, Sprawl, Real Estate, Development, Smart Growth, Global Warming, Cities, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

  “The biggest fight I think we’ll see in the next ten years is the fight between people in cities who are trying to transform them ...

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Pax Urbana -- Debunking America's Third War

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: White House Office of Urban Affairs, Joel Kotkin, Cities, Barack Obama, War, Suburbs, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The real motive of a recent article by Joel Kotkin's is to defend an outmoded, retrograde notion of freedom that he never defines

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Village Green: The Year's Top Stories for Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Suburbs, Communities, Sustainability, Development, Neighborhoods, Global Warming, Smart Growth, Cities, Transportation, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

All in all, we had a mixture of good, disappointing, and great news for smart growth and sustainability in 2009. Taking a long view that considers where this issue was fifteen or even ten years ago, I remain very optimistic.

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