February 2012
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“Our school system was designed in the Nineteenth century to socialize immigrants...”
– RICHARD FLORIDA: It’s Up To The Cities To Bring America Back
January 2012
3 posts
“Surveys have shown that controversies like Alaska’s infamous bridge to nowhere...”
– - The Washington Post
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
Get the lead out: Clean air tied to decline in... →
“The problem for the [Indiana Toll Road’s] investors — and one that...”
– The Indiana Toll Road: A Model for Privatization?
August 2011
3 posts
“On average, urban and intercity rail projects run over budget by 45 percent,...”
– Too Many Public Works Built on Rosy Scenarios: Virginia Postrel - Bloomberg
July 2011
3 posts
“When it comes to the K-12 education system, we’re living in an age of...”
– Atlanta Cheating Scandal: How the teacher incentives in high-stakes testing situations lead to cheating outbreaks. - By Dana Goldstein - Slate Magazine
“Though the subsidy payments always ebbed and flowed with crop prices, many...”
– Crop Prices Erode Farm Subsidy Program - WSJ.com
June 2011
8 posts
“A key piece of the mayor’s economic strategy has been to make New York City a...”
– New York City Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel UBS May Move Back to Manhattan from Stamford - NYTimes.com
“Somehow it became conventional wisdom that the deficit, not unemployment, was...”
– The Mistake of 2010 - NYTimes.com
“Contrary to the housing-bubble dogma that a mortgaged apartment or house...”
– Housing price collapse: why it’s good news that more Americans are renting rather than buying homes. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine
Watch(via Paying nature to do its thing | Marketplace From American Public Media)
“India is the center of the 21st-century slave trade. This country almost...”
– She’s 10 and Now May Be Sold to a Brothel - NYTimes.com
April 2011
3 posts
“Some analysts said that even faster change was possible, but that could mean big...”
– A Tipping Point in Energy Independence - NYTimes.com
March 2011
5 posts
Watch(via The End Of The Road: Saying Goodbye To Freeways : NPR)
“The housing-price boom of the 2000s was little more than a construction-supply...”
– Is farmland the next bubble? - By Robert J. Shiller - Slate Magazine
“The Chicago CFO’s office never bothered to calculate what the parking...”
– Infrastructure privatization: Can banks be trusted? - By Bethany McLean - Slate Magazine
February 2011
6 posts
Video: Wireless Parking - Cities - GOOD →
“Nearly everything can be done more efficiently in a well-run city, be it...”
– For Egypt, a Fresh Start, With Cities - Economic Scene - NYTimes.com
WatchWinning the Future Through Innovation and “Better Buildings” | The White House
January 2011
6 posts
“The fact that the United States has pre-crisis levels of output with fewer...”
– 10 Percent Unemployment Forever? - By Tyler Cowen and Jayme Lemke | Foreign Policy
“And now we we’re pouring our ag bucks into biofuels, of all the imaginable...”
– Prof. Nina Fedoroff quoted in Varied Menus for Sustaining a Well-Fed World - NYTimes.com
““There’s a reason why big developers focus on the suburbs,” he said. “There’s...”
– The most depressing thing I read about urban planning today - Greater Ottawa
“[F]ederal involvement in housing has been a constant since the 1930s. A market...”
– Who Wants a 30-Year Mortgage? - NYTimes.com
“Seriously, what we’re looking at over the next few years, even with pretty good...”
– Paul Krugman - Deep Hole Economics - NYTimes.com
December 2010
5 posts
November 2010
6 posts
