Recently added articles from The Next American City:
LETTERS
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Dear NAC, Your discussion regarding what it means to be "rich" in America (americancity.org) begs some consideration: Certainly, two-income households could find themselves bringing in more than $200,000 a year, especially if both partners are professionals. But is a person rich if they ...
CALENDAR
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... CONFERENCES, MEETINGS AND NOTABLE CITY EVENTS IN UPCOMING MONTHS MARCH 15 Music and the Urban Organized by the Harvard University Graduate Music Forum in Cambridge, Mass., this conference will explore "the topic of music as it relates to, functions within, and comments ...
STATS + QUOTES
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... VOICES AND INTELLIGENCE "The people that ended up at LOVE Park will be the first people to complain about a skate park, even if it's a skate park designed to mimic a place like LOVE Park. They feel like anything manmade - purposefully made - to be a skate park is a ...
SHORTS
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... CITY NEWS AND DEVELOPMENT FROM AROUND THE WORLD 1 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Collapse New Orleans' City Council voted unanimously on Dec. 20, 2007 to approve the demolition of nearly 4,600 affordable housing units, after having agreed to postpone their ...
Blacklisted
Apr 01, 2008; Mock, Brentin ... Is failing to plan with minority architects, in fact, planning to fail? Today, cities are experiencing radical redevelopment, especially in neighborhoods dominated by African and Latino-Americans. Yet, there are few black and Hispanic professionals with architectural and planning ...
BRIEFS
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... "Medha seeks equitable share of land to urban poor" -mynews.in Social activist Medha Patkar, celebrated by India's impoverished as "the defender of the weak," spoke at the National Alliance of Peoples Movement in Hyderabad, India, on behalf of those she believes are "trampled in ...
From LOVE comes Paine
Apr 01, 2008; Marklewicz, Liz ... Years after legislation criminalized one of the most famous informal skateparks in the country, a thoroughly planned predecessor, Paine's Park, finally near s completion. Is this ShangriLa for skateboarders? Or an expensive cover-up for NIMBY-pandering city policies. Josh Nims stands on ...
The Cleaned City
Apr 01, 2008; Harrs, David Evan ... In São Paolo, outdoor advertising has been outlawed as "visual pollution," leaving the city's landscape dotted with blank billboards and decayed frames. A year into the law, how has the city changed? A little more than a year ago, São Paolo, Brazil, a sprawling metropolis of more than 11 ...
Magnolia
Apr 01, 2008; Richardson, Hayley ... An ambitious planto develop a Manhattan-sized brownfield highlights old power dynamics, a Southern struggle pitting black interests against white interests, and deep-seeded racism in a birthplace of American slavery. When people talk about the Neck region of Charleston, S.C., they tend ...
God's Business
Apr 01, 2008; Stroud, Matt ... A discussion with Tracy J. Brown and Dr. Steve Parson about black churches, investment, inner-city communities and the 'Modern Day Pharaoh System.' INTERVIEW BY MATT STROUD Tracy J. Brown is an author, speaker and businessman focusing on urban development through what he calls "biblical ...
Baghdad's Bureaucracy
Apr 01, 2008; Stroud, Matt ... A former United States Civil Affairs officer shares his thoughts on the U.S.'s role in Iraq's biggest city. Stacy A. Bare served with the United States Army as a Civil Affairs staff officer and team leader in Western Baghdad in 2006. His work outside the Green Zone gave him a first-hand ...
Shelter and the Storm
Apr 01, 2008; Hwang, Helen I ... After Hurricane Katrina hit, Dr. Vera Triplett played a major role in helping to rebuild her community, the Gentilly neighborhood, and the rest of New Orleans. INTERVIEW BY HELEN I. HWANG On a Friday in August 2005, Dr. Vera Triplett flew with her family from her home in New Orleans to ...
Respect for the Human Scale
Apr 01, 2008; Polycarpou, Lakis ... An interview with urban theorists James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros James Howard Kunstler has written numerous books about urbanism and "the fiasco of suburbia," including The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere and The City in Mind. In his most recent book, The Long ...
Green for All
Apr 01, 2008; Whelan, Robbie ... On opposite sides of the country, Van Jones and Majora Carter try to parlay two lifetimes' worth of social activism into a cleaner, greener economy to solve the problems of urban poverty. On a sunny November afternoon, Van Jones strides into a vegetable patch on West Oakland's 55th ...
Building Under Peril
Apr 01, 2008; Knowles, Scott Gabriel ... Nature will always challenge developers, but landmark studies of wildfire in California and flooding along the Mississippi are showing new ways of living in America's most dangerous regions. This past October, when the Santa Ana winds returned to Southern California as they do every ...
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... SHORT REVIEWS Book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan Penguin Press, Jan. 1, 2008 "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." is Michael Pollan's condensed manifesto. Since The New York Times Magazine article in which Pollan's proposal revolutionized common sense, the ...
The American Dream
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Concept The American Dream What makes the American Dream? Sod. Lots of sod. Don't forget the white paint either - for the picket fence. Let's not get ahead of ourselves, though - you're going to need to buy a house. But before you do that, you need to have money saved up ....
Freedom of Expression
Apr 01, 2008; Sanchez, Casey ... Book Freedom of Expression In the heart of the Deep South, Jackson Free Press has resurrected the alt-weekly tradition of maverick investigations and cultural provocation. "Tweaking Twiggy" Cover feature about Jackson, Mississippi's "artist in residence," Jason "Twiggy" Lott. Jackson Free Press, ...
Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Book Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City Richard Forman Cambridge University Press, May 31, 2008 In his forthcoming book, Richard Forman, the PAES professor of landscape ecology at Harvard, examines the ...
Professor Ayse Pamuk's "Assignment 2 - The Jane Jacobs Assignment"
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Assignment Professor Ayse Pamuk's "Assignment 2 - The Jane Jacobs Assignment" Urban Theory University of Virginia, Spring Semester 1996 Professor Pamuk's "Assignment 2" is a visual representation of Jane Jacobs' contributions to urban theory and planning. The project was due on Thursday, ...