The Naked City Blog
Cities are amazing, and amazingly complicated. I explore what it all means.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Exurban living can exacerbate joblessness, study finds
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The general belief that people living in American suburbs are better off economically than those in cities has been shaken in recent years,...
Yet another way the feds promote sprawl
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Another new subdivision for Union County, N.C., just south of Charlotte. Photo: Nancy Pierce Feds promoting sprawl? That might surpris...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Transit chief: P3s help but won't solve transit funding woes
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Sharon Road West station on Charlotte's light rail line. Photo: Nancy Pierce The idea of using public-private partnerships to help...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Clearing the air on the Liz Hair Greenway
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Liz Hair Greenway, near Carolinas Medical Center. Photo courtesy Mecklenburg Park and Recreation Department The cloud of cigarette smo...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Detroit: 'Failed city' or urban upswing?
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A lush urban garden in downtown Detroit. DETROIT—Since I've been thinking of things in dualities (see " Two North Carolinas ...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Two North Carolinas
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You hear not so infrequently that there are two North Carolinas. What those two North Carolinas are, though, is not necessarily precise. Is...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
The kind of problem a city is
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This new piece by the Atlantic's CityLab.com writer Michael Mehaffy looks at the newest thinking about cities, and concludes, in essen...
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