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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 also write a weekly guest-blog entry Mondays at the Creative Class Blog, republished on the Globe and Mail website

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Recent Posts

• Does a city (or a country) need corporate head offices
• Worldwide, cities are good for women
• Maybe meeting expectations makes “cities” happy
• Finally, a city celebrates its successes
• The coming blurred boundaries between work and home
• The wacky and weird of living in an Olympic host city
• Libraries as public 3rd places

Recent Comments

• Carl Morris on Comparing cities through surnames
• Wendy Waters on Maybe meeting expectations makes "cities" happy
• Urbesaereperennius on Maybe meeting expectations makes "cities" happy
• Wendy Waters on Libraries as public 3rd places
• Urbesaereperennius on Libraries as public 3rd places

Categories

• "back to the center"
• aerotropolis
• attracting talent
• book reviews
• catastrophe management
• city hall
• clusters
• commercial development
• communities
• crime reduction
• demographic stats
• development conflicts
• diversity
• downtowns
• ecological issues
• economic development
• national politics
• planning policy
• poverty
• public spaces
• real estate
• resident attitudes
• residential development
• revitalization
• satellite cities
• sprawl
• third places
• transportation
• Uncategorized
• urban families
• urban history
• urban lifestyles
• urban retail trends
• urban technologies

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Popular Ponderings

• Comparing cities through surnames
• Satellite Cities - Something to Watch
• Bikes, Boston and attracting talent
• McMansions and historic neighborhoods
• Tales of two border cities
• High Rise Condo Sprawl
• Judging a City by Its Airport ...continued at CCG blog
• Race, class and sprawl

Book Reviews

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Previous Ponderings

• March 2010
• February 2010
• January 2010
• December 2009
• November 2009
• October 2009
• September 2009
• August 2009
• July 2009
• June 2009
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• March 2009
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• December 2007
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• April 2007
• March 2007
• February 2007
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• December 2006
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Links & Resources

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Cities Generally

• Price Tags
• Fast Company’s Global Fast Cities 2007
• Greg Clark (citiesandregions.com)
• Where Blog
• Great cities to discover
• Creative Class Blog (Posts on cities)
• Planetizen
• Cyburbia
• Urban Planning Research
• This Land: Visual Pollution Slide Show with Commentary

US - Western Cities

US - Texas & Mid-West

• Houston - Houston Strategies Blog
• Austin - Austin Contrarian
• Owensboro Kentucky - Owensboro EDC Blog

US - South

US - North East

• Washington DC - DCist.com
• Washington DC - greatergreaterwashington.org
• Boston - Dave Writes

Canadian Cities

• Ottawa - Greater Ottawa by David Reeveley
• Toronto - Spacing Toronto and a blog
• Toronto - Move Smartly
• Vancouver - Eco Density
• Vancouver - Vancouveriste
• Vancouver (and beyond) - City States by Frances Bula
• Vancouver (and beyond) - Price Tags Blog

European Cities

• London - Development Agency

Asia - Pacific Cities

Latin American Cities

Other World Cities

Publications Received or Recommended

The Warhol Economy by Elizabeth Currid. (Princeton University Press, 2007)

 

City Making In Paradise: The 9 decisions that helped to make Vancouver one of the World’s most livable cities by Mike Harcourt, Ken Cameron with Sean Rossiter. (Douglas & MacIntyre, 2007)