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Category Archives: immigration
Ten Planning Lessons from Traverse City
Now that we have lived in Traverse City for almost four years, it is time to list the ten top planning lessons learned from our hometown. Sometimes, evaluation of the places closest to you are the toughest. Smaller cities and … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, Advocacy, air travel, branding, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, culture, demographics, diversity, downtown, economic development, education, entertainment, environment, family, gay rights, geography, government, health, historic preservation, history, homelessness, Housing, human rights, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, placemaking, planning, politics, poverty, racism, Sexism, social equity, spatial design, sustainability, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, volunteerism, Welcome
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The Great ‘Reverse’ Migration May Be Disastrous for Many Northern Cities and States
Between 1916 and 1970, more than six million African-Americans migrated northward to work in factories and live in cities across the Northeast and Midwest. Today, there is mounting evidence that this great migration has reversed itself, as those who can … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, culture, demographics, economic development, economic gardening, Economy, education, entrepreneurship, family, geography, government, history, Housing, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, planning, politics, poverty, social equity, Statistics, urban planning
Tagged African-Americans, immigrants, inclusiveness, The Great Migration, welcoming
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Metro areas most impacted by the new immigration ban
Interesting data from the Brookings Institutionis provided below which is related to existing immigrant residents in the United States from the recently banned seven (7) Muslim nations. The data in the first chart shows those cities where these immigrant populations … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, civility, culture, demographics, diversity, geography, human rights, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, planning, politics, Statistics, urban planning
Tagged demographics, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, peace, planning, refugees, statistics
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Lessons from Boston’s Irish Heritage Trail
Many of us are familiar with Boston’s Freedom Trail – a walking tour that takes one to famous sights ranging from Paul Revere’s home to the Old North Church to the Boston Massacre site to Bunker Hill. Virtually anyone growing … Continue reading
Posted in art, cities, civics, Communications, culture, economic development, education, entertainment, Europe, family, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, immigration, Ireland, land use, Maps, music, pictures, placemaking, planning, Religion, tourism, trails, Transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking
Tagged fun, history, Ireland, trails
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Is there a student housing bubble and is it about to burst?
For many collegiate cities and towns across the United States, the steady influx of international students (and often with their families), from primarily China/Asia, have lifted the local real estate markets out of the post-2008 doldrums. The concern now becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, China, cities, colleges, culture, demographics, diversity, economic development, education, geography, globalization, Housing, humanity, immigration, land use, marketing, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, Statistics, urban planning, zoning
Tagged Asia, China, cities, colleges, education, housing, housing bubble, land use, planning, real estate, residential, student housing, students, universities, zoning
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Review of “American Chinatown, A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods”
In American Chinatown, author Bonnie Tsui has written a compelling and reflective historical account of five Chinatowns in the United States. But, what truly brings this text to life are the lives and experiences of those residents who she interviews … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, Asia, book reviews, books, branding, China, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, Cuisine, culture, diversity, economics, entertainment, entrepreneurship, family, geography, globalization, historic preservation, history, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, land use, literature, marketing, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, poverty, racism, reading, spatial design, third places, tourism, Trade, Travel, urban planning, Welcome, Women
Tagged American Chinatown, Bonnie Tsui, book reviews, books, Chinatown, Chinatown Revisited, cities, culture, demographics, diversity, ethnoburbs, geography, history, immigration, land use, New York Times, planning, politics, racism, sociology
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“Odessa” – where dreams and nightmares collide
When I purchased the Kindle e-book Odessa, Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, I was excited to learn more about the Russian and Ukrainian history pertaining to this famous seaport founded by Catherine the Great. Never did I ever … Continue reading
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Tagged art, book reviews, books, cities, culture, diversity, geography, history, inclusiveness, land use, literature, maps, Odessa, religion, Russia, Russian Empire, seaports, trade, Ukraine, war, writing
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American as baseball, hot dogs, and vodka – Spy towns of the Cold War
I always find it interesting how certain blog post ideas come to me. This one was totally on a lark. I was watching NCIS Los Angeles Tuesday night and near the end of the episode, Hetty and Callen were in … Continue reading
Posted in cities, civics, commerce, culture, education, film, geography, globalization, government, historic preservation, history, humanity, immigration, land use, military, peace, planning, politics, product design, Television, Travel, urban planning
Tagged CIA, cities, Cold War, espionage, fil, government, history, KGB, land use, NCIS Los Angeles, New York, New York Post, news, politics, Soviet Union, Spy vs. Spy, television, time
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