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• Digging Deeper: The Ultimate Queen City Underground Tour

  
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  American Legacy Tours – located at 1218 Vine Street in Cincinnati’s historic Over the Rhine (OTR) – has continued to gain popularity, media attention and distinction since their opening in 2008. The company, founded by a small group of friends, offers a diverse range of engaging walking tours through ...
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• How Community Blogs Become A Tool For City-Making

  
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  City blogging is a great tool to share ideas around the world toward better urban futures, but it’s also a potent tool for hyper-local community development. In the Netherlands, many community blogs have popped up and we’re excited to be inviting the founders of three Amsterdam community blogs, Ilovenoord , ...
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• Movement of the Day: GIVE, the global villages movement

  
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  GIVE aims for Globally Integrated Village Environments , and is an initiative by Franz Nahrada to promote the expansion of Global Villages Here below, Franz explains its sevens strategic imperatives: “Our seven themes in detail: (1) Global Villegiatura – Trans Market Economies “In a time when fewer and ...
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• Norman Foster: Paris does not need skyscrapers.

  
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  Foster is quoted in le Figaro: The most beautiful cities of the future will be inspired by todays most sustainable cities. And it does not mean that build up. Paris, London and Copenhagen are these cities. Of course, Manhattan is a shining example in terms of energy consumed, the presence of high buildings is ...
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• Why Do We Talk About ‘Right’ and ‘Left’ in Politics?

  
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  Right and left designate viewpoints on the political spectrum, but whats the origin of these terms?
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• How We’ve Ignored the Complex Simplicity of the Manhattan Street Grid

  
  The Urban Times — Authority: 144
  What has been lost in the ignorance and rejection of the core principles of the Manhattan grid, to the detriment of most cities in the western world, is the ability to establish the physical pattern that new growth and development will take in order to integrate itself into a connected urban whole.
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• Highway Omelette

  
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  Developing Beirut is increasingly about choosing between bad options I was reading this post over at Blog Baladi about the plan to build a bridge at the expense of old Buildings in Mar Mikhael and Gemmayze, and I have a few thoughts I want to share. Big Deal This is a big deal. This is not some old house ...
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• Translating Tactical Urbanism: An Interview with Javier Vergara Petrescu

  
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  by Hillete Warner  Global Innovators is a 10-part series that celebrates the remarkable work of social innovators from outside the English-speaking world. Twice a month we profile the stories of inspiring community pioneers from across three broad cultural clusters: change enthusiasts from Italy, France and the ...
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• "The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties,..."

  
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  “The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies and aesthetic values we desire. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing ...
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• How the Western Saints Lived: A Review and Summary of “Mormon Country” by Wallace Stegner

  
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  This is the second post in a three-part series reviewing and summarizing the CNU21 suggested reading list. CNU21 is this year’s annual Congress for the New Urbanism conference and will be held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah May 29 th through June 1 st , 2013. The first book review and ...
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• The Washington Avenue parking benefit district is now operational

  
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  From CultureMap : Meet the meter It took a while, but nearly five months after Houston City Council approved  the first citywide  Parking Benefit District for the Washington Avenue corridor, the meters started charging at 7 a.m. on Wednesday. The City of Houston’s Administration and Regulatory ...
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• The Importance of New Urbanism in Orlando, Florida

  
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  Florida is a state of dichotomies. Even after a decade of explosive population growth, much of the Sunshine State remains very rural. Coastal cities like Miami are home to the international super-rich, while just blocks away you can find families struggling to make ends meet. And, maybe most surprisingly, Florida – ...
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• Market Urbanism in Turkey

  
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  I am a market urbanist, but what does that mean? Wikipedia defines New  Urbanism  "an urban design movement which promotes walkable neighborhoods containing a range of housing and job types." The "market" aspect is a Hayekian notion that if you assign people property rights, then free interaction and incentives ...
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• Actually, not so clear at all

  
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  I’ve never thought outdoor advertising was terribly effective so I’m happy to file these billboards under real-life glitch art.
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• The Pop-Up City Live — A Night For Urban Innovators On May 21st

  
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  In spring of 2008 we started a little blog with great ideas that make a change in cities. A lot has happened since. Now, five years we can’t let our fifth birthday go unnoticed. For that special occasion we’re hosting  The Pop-Up City Live , an experimental event for urban innovators at  De Brakke Grond  in ...
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• May 21st: The Pop-Up City Live — A Night For Urban Innovators

  
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  In spring of 2008 we started a little blog with great ideas that make a change in cities. A lot has happened since. Now, five years we can’t let our fifth birthday go unnoticed. For that special occasion we’re hosting  The Pop-Up City Live , an experimental event for urban innovators at  De Brakke Grond  in ...
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• Farming The City: Food As A Tool For Today’s Urbanisation

  
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  Seeing an opportunity to unite the wide-ranging efforts of urban farmers worldwide, CITIES Magazine  and Trancity have published Farming the City: Food as a Tool for Today’s Urbanization . Farming the City ’s mission is to link international activists and thinkers to increase their potential for positive ...
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• Becalmed in the storm’s eye

  
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  It’s been a busy couple of months. I hope regular readers will forgive this recap of the past two months or so, which is as much for my own benefit as anyone else’s; I transcribe it here in what I suspect is the hope that I’ll be able to convince myself it all actually happened. The corollary of getting my ...
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• "All cities are artificial to some extent, but LA isn’t set on top of its environment, it..."

  
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  “All cities are artificial to some extent, but LA isn’t set on top of its environment, it changed it.” - Dan Houser
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• Why Beards are like Good Urbanism

  
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  I always enjoyed a good challenge. “A man doesn’t grow a beard. A beard grows a man”  – Internet Proverb A beard isn’t something you grow overnight. Neither is a city. Both these seemingly unrelated entities need to mature, fill in and be properly groomed, yet still maintain their distinct ...
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