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Cities are fascinating. This blog explores the economy, society, communities, people, businesses, organizations, infrastructure, civil society and government of cities -- and the tensions and connections between them. (More...)

I try to post twice per week; I previously also wrote a weekly guest-blog entry at the Creative Class Blog

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• Housing still a good investment in some US cities
• Should “Urban Studies” be a mandatory high school course?
• Turning off WIFI and plugging into cities
• World Cup Street Celebrations Then and Now
• Stealth density vs high rise density
• Building suburbs in “the city”
• A whale in the city:unexpected eco-consequence

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Archive for July, 2010

World Cup Street Celebrations Then and Now

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

Urbanistas often debate or discuss how to make cities less automobile-centric. Sometimes the discussion becomes an “either-or” dichotomy.  But there are examples where streets can be for cars most of the time, and the city make exceptions on the fly as popular activity dictates.
Last Sunday as the World Cup final went into extra time, people […]