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Tag Archives: poverty
Interstate Injustice: Plowing Highways Through Minority Neighborhoods – Updated
The list provided at the end of the post is a partial tally of the once vibrant, historically Black and Latino neighborhoods that have been largely decimated by Interstate Highway construction. Much of this community displacement and destruction took place … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, Civil Rights, economic development, environment, geography, health, history, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, planning, politics, poverty, racism, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, traffic, transportation, urban planning, zoning
Tagged cities, construction, discrimination, injustice, Interstate Highways, poverty, racism, transportation
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Is this America’s future?
A landscape of homeless sleeping on the streets beneath the ever-watchful eyes of their wealthy “benevolent” dictator. It doesn’t have to be this way, folks, provided we stand up, speak out, and skillfully and peacefully combat the evil forces of … Continue reading
Posted in futurism, government
Tagged homelessness, humanity, politics, poverty, wealth
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Homelessness in paradise
Since moving to Traverse City approximately six months ago we have observed a number of political and planning issues that are fairly common in larger cities, but which have percolated to the surface here more recently as the region has … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Advocacy, cities, civics, civility, demographics, economics, health, homelessness, Housing, human rights, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Love, planning, politics, poverty, social equity, Statistics, unemployment, urban planning
Tagged cities, homelessness, housing, land use, poverty
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The DUMB reality of opting-out
In an ironic twist of fate, Southeast Michigan’s regional bus system is nicknamed SMART (Southeast Michigan Regional Transit). Given the ability of communities in the region to opt-out of participation, the name certainly is an oxymoron to the DUMB (Detroit Unworkable Metro Bus) … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Alternative transportation, bicycling, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, economic development, geography, government, health, history, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, Labor, land use, logistics, Maps, placemaking, planning, pollution, poverty, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, traffic, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, writing
Tagged buses, cities, connectivity, Detroit, economy, fairness, land use, planning, poverty, SMART, social equity, social justice, traffic, transit, transportation
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Do bike lanes cause gentrification?
While listening to a Tuesdays at APA podcast entitled “Just Green Enough: Contesting Environmental Gentrification” on New Years Eve, I was dismayed to hear the presenter say that bike lanes are now seen by many lower-income Americans as the ultimate symbol … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, Advocacy, architecture, bicycling, bike sharing, Biking, charities, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, culture, downtown, economic development, environment, fitness, geography, health, history, homelessness, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, Maps, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, poverty, product design, spatial design, sustainability, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged bicycling, bike commuting, bike lanes, biking, class, cycling, demographics, displacement, gentrification, infrastructure, land use, planning, poverty, social equity, social justice, urban planning
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A call to…inaction
I completed Edward Glaeser’s 2011 book entitled, Triumph of the City this past weekend. While this book contains a number of useful and noteworthy snippets about the economic importance of cities, especially in the first two-thirds of the text. Sadly … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, architecture, Asia, book reviews, books, Canada, China, cities, civility, climate change, commerce, consumerism, culture, density, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, economics, entrepreneurship, environment, Europe, geography, globalization, government, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, India, infrastructure, land use, new urbanism, North America, Oceania, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, revitalization, skylines, South America, spatial design, sprawl, States, Statistics, sustainability, technology, tourism, Trade, transit, transportation, UK, urban planning, weather, writing, zoning
Tagged book reviews, books, cities, economics, economy, land use, literature, NIMBY, planning, poverty, urban planning, writing, zoning
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A spiraling saunter of megacity Delhi
Last night, I completed the 2009 book entitled Delhi, Adventures in a Megacity by author and journalist Sam Miller. The book literally presents a step-by-step overview of this huge metropolis, its storied past, its challenging present, and its potential for the future. … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Animals, architecture, art, Asia, bicycling, book reviews, books, Cars, cities, civility, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, density, diversity, economic development, Economy, environment, geography, globalization, government, health, historic preservation, history, homelessness, humanity, immigration, India, infrastructure, land use, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, poverty, rail, recycling, schools, skylines, Small business, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, technology, tourism, Trade, transit, transportation, Travel, UK, urban planning, walking
Tagged book reviews, books, cities, Delhi, geography, India, meacities, pollution, poverty, sprawl, urban planning
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Exit ramp academic epidemic
Drive past or through nearly any population center these days and you are likely to observe America’s epidemic of exit ramp academic institutions situated on prime real estate aside the highway. The University of Phoenix is probably the best known of these entities nationally, but they … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, architecture, bicycling, Biking, Bus transportation, cities, culture, economic development, education, fitness, geography, government, health, infrastructure, land use, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, revitalization, schools, spatial design, sprawl, sustainability, transit, transportation, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged academia, college, education, land use, mass transit, planning, poverty, revitalization, spatial design, sprawl, transportation, universities, urban planning
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Where the seeds of Steinbeck’s “wrath” were sown
Below is a letter I have penned to the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author, John Steinbeck. During my recent vacation, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting the National Steinbeck Center and his childhood home in Salinas, California. The … Continue reading
Posted in art, book reviews, books, civics, culture, diversity, economics, environment, food systems, geography, health, history, homelessness, human rights, inclusiveness, land use, North America, placemaking, planning, poverty, revitalization, spatial design, sustainability, tourism
Tagged agriculture, authors, books, cities, history, homelessness, John Steinbeck, poverty, Salinas, The Grapes of Wrath, writing
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Cities in history: review of “Ten Green Bottles”
Vivian Jeanette Kaplan’s book (Ten Green Bottles) about her parent’s harrowing escape from Nazi-controlled Vienna, Austria to Japanese-controlled Shanghai, China is a captivating and disturbing true story of one family’s efforts to escape Nazi aggression. The book primarily covers from the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Asia, bicycling, book reviews, cities, civics, culture, diversity, Europe, history, human rights, poverty, psychology, transportation
Tagged Austria, Axis, book reviews, books, Canada, China, communists, culture, diversity, exodus, facists, family, Germany, history, holocaust, injustice, poverty, religion, Shanghai, Toronto, Vienna, war, World War II
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