Tag: Urban policy

What if Rich Neighborhoods Funded Poor Schools?

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Last week we published a piece by Jay Walljasper entitled "How Tax-Sharing Can Save Cities," which made a moral and economic argument for richer area

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How Tax-Sharing Can Save Cities

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As the son of a geography teacher, who spent endless hours of my youth poring over maps, I’ve always been fascinated with border lines. As a kid I imagined that crossing from, say, Nevada into California, would offer an immediate change of s

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No Opposition to Growth of SF Carsharing Requirements

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In 2002, San Francisco began requiring every residential development with 50 or more units and every commercial building with 25 or more parking spaces to have at least one space set aside for carsharing--a policy that has not only made carsharing

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Can a City Build a Better Version of Itself?

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San Franciscans tend to view the artificial Treasure Island as a blur on the bridge to the East Bay: the 400 acres have been semi-abandoned since the Navy shut down its base in 1997.

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How to Create Abundant Cities

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Is it enough for our lives, our economy, our cities to become “sustainable”? If being sustainable means no more than being able to maintain the status quo of strife and never having enough, of contests over who gets the most of the sca

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Open Data, Open Cities

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As Jeremy Adam Smith wrote on his post "Shareable Futures", the nation and its cities are in desperate need of new ideas. Urban renewal not only in the pragmatic sense but also in

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Paris and the Future of Bikesharing

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The Transport Politic reports that Paris is about to get a whole lot more shareable:

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A Shareable Vision for Housing

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I just stumbled across this local news article from Wisconsin: 

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Top Down or Bottom Up Leadership? Both!

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There’s a lot of debate about whether strong leadership from the top or powerful grass roots initiatives from the bottom are what are needed to move our cities forward. I happen to think there are examples on both sides.

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Making Government an Open Platform

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Open culture advocates, technical developers and media converged Thursday night at the San Francisco City hall for the latest updates on the open government and open311 initiatives. The quest

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