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Wi-Fi... Shades of the early cable days?
<a href="http://totalexperience.corante.com/">Bob Jacobson</a> emails to say that Brian Deagon's article for Investor's Business Daily, "<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/060731/feature.html?.v=1">Cities' Wi-Fi Efforts Might Pose Threat To Cable, Telecom</a>" is a good article and reminds him of "the early cable days!"<br /> <br /> <blockquote>More cities are starting to manage Internet access much like they manage electricity, water and transportation services. That trend could cost cable and telecom providers billions of dollars in lost business.<br /> <br /> As of July 1, 59 cities were running broadband Internet networks, up from 38 a year earlier, according to MuniWireless.com, which tracks this subject.</blockquote>
FEATURE
Top-Down Greening In The Urban Core
Can cities get back in touch with nature? Planners, developers, architects, and policy makers convened in Los Angeles June 7 to face the challenge and develop a plan of action to help bring life onto the rooftops of L.A.'s downtown.
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Miles To Go Before I Sleep!
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Make a lot of creative, small plans
The surging housing market and development pressure in Philadelphia has resurrected what was once an all but dormant profession - planning. Meeting after meeting is being held with community leaders, politicians, developers and others to discuss the current lack of planning in the City in the wake of this widespread change. The concensus of each meeting is that the City needs a Master Plan. Further, there also appears to be a major call to finally empower the planning commission which has, for years, been cast aside as a step-child of City governance.
FEATURE
Car-less In Seattle
Pedestrian pioneer Alan Durning describes what his family of five is learning by living without four wheels in Cascadia's largest city. Can they survive without the essential currency of the modern American community?
FEATURE
Your Own Private Utopia
Using Wrights & Sites new "A Mis-Guide To Anywhere", city dwellers around the world can unlock a "mental toolkit" that will help them discover the extraordinary in the seemingly mundane urban experience, writes author Phil Smith.
FEATURE
Careers In Real Estate: How To Uncover Job Opportunities In A Dynamic Industry
From affordable housing development to the Trump Towers, the dynamic yet low profile real estate industry represents so much more than brokerage, writes James Carberry, co-author of <em>The Inside Track to Careers in Real Estate</em>, in this Op-Ed.
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World Cup 2006 Extravaganza
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A Little Bit of LA River
Portland's river is a central gathering place for the city. New York lives between two rivers. A river defines Washington DC's geography.<br /> <br /> In Los Angeles, the river is a concretized ditch.<br /> <br /> But that river was always wilder than the others. Until the last century it ran not north-south -- its course today -- but east-west, emptying in Santa Monica instead of San Pedro. I have an antique map of Los Angeles on my living room wall, the first one published (1849 or so), and the river does indeed run perpendicular to the one I grew up driving over, or next to.
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Book Review - 'Imagined Cities'
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Low-Tech Communications
There's been an increasing number of urban projects breaking out the paint brushes as a low-cost means of improving cities. As stated by Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of Curitiba, for every zero that is removed from a city budget, the more creative solutions become. It seems these examples represent areas with extremely limited budgets. Object Orange is a public art project in Detroit that is calling attention to blighted structures through the use of bright orange paint. It seems their efforts have resulted in their desired outcome - increased demolition of unsafe structures.
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