Look Who’s Investing in Future Prosperity
As you might expect, it’s China, according to the New York Times: Just as building the interstate highway system in the United States a half-century ago made modern commerce more feasible on a national...
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Youngstown: the struggle to shrink to prosperity
As DC.StreetsBlog reports, about 10 years ago, Youngstown, Ohio created a community plan designed to help the city cope with a massive downsizing of its economy and population: The city would start by...
View ArticleLooking for Something Else to Worry About?
Let’s see, there’s global warming, the global recession, the capture of one of America’s great political parties by a handful of zealots. . . Anything else we should be worrying about? Oh yes, our...
View ArticleHow the Internet Transforms Cities (& Could Save them $Billions)
Fast Company reports on how the Internet and associated “smart infrastructure” are making a profound change in US cities–transforming them from inert structures to “virtual organisms:” With a little...
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Highway Deconstruction & Quality of Life
The City Fix highlights an interesting approach to improving the quality of urban life: The famed U.S. intellectual Lewis Mumford once said, “Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers...
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US Infrastructure: Austerity is a Bad Investment Strategy
That’s the reasoning by Jordan Weissman in the current issue of the Atlantic. He cites the usual Keynesian justification for such projects, both in terms of boosting employment in the short run and...
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Google Fiber: Is Everything Up to Date in Kansas City?
You may remember that, with great fanfare, Google held a competition among US localities to see which one would be lucky enough to receive a massive broadband network. Kansas City was the winner....
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Smart Infrastructure Could Add 27,000 Jobs to New England Economy
According to the New England Board of Higher Education, that’s one of the conclusions from a new report commissioned by the New England Council: Deloitte Principal and the report’s primary author, Mike...
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US’s Aging Infrastructure Must Respond to Aging Population
We constantly read about America’s aging infrastructure. According to the Atlantic Cities blog, not only is it aging, it needs to be reconfigured to serve that other rapidly aging piece of the...
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US Falling Behind in Broadband
In case you missed it this weekend, the New York Times ran a story about the state of the Internet in the US: The United States, the country that invented the Internet, is falling dangerously behind in...
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Can Smart Cities Empower Their Citizens?
Over the past few years, the idea of smart cities has come into vogue. Usually this refers to city governments using information technology (i.e., some form of digital surveillance) to manage...
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