May 2010
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Promise Neighborhood to begin Oct. 1 |... →
Savannah is preparing its application for one of 20 planning grants through the U.S. Department of Education as part of President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce poverty in the nation’s most needy areas.
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6 Best Places to Drink Beer in Philadelphia - Food... →
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Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: *Everyday Chatter →
The Tasti-d-Lite that moved into the former and beloved Chez Brigitte is now open for business
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Journal of Environmental Psychology : The... →
Three studies used digital color photographs to compare responses to natural scenes, skylines after dark, and skylines during the day
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World touristiness map & Interesting remote places... →
World map color-coded by level of touristiness.
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The Grocery Gap - The Future of the City - The... →
To eliminate food deserts—areas without any access to “real” food — the Food Trust is working with Pennsylvania lawmakers to develop a series of public/private partnerships that address food access problems. One such program is the Fresh Food Financing Initiative, a grant and loan program that encourages supermarkets to open in underserved areas.
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Walking in L.A.: An Introduction - Walking in L.A.... →
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A New Metro Map | The New Republic →
Seven categories of metropolitan areas based on their population growth rates, their levels of racial and ethnic diversity, and the rates at which their adults have earned college degrees. Together, these indicators say a lot about not just these three dimensions of metropolitan populations, but also factors such as development patterns, age, household structure, economic history and trajectory,...
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“Thanks to the profound influence that The Death and Life of Great American...”
– Gentrification and Its Discontents - Magazine - The Atlantic
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“I hate to say that I also think of HBO’s new series “Treme,” which is...”
– Please “Treme,” I Beg You—Get Over Yourself | The New Republic
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“The worst thing that can happen to you in life is to be in a room with two...”
– Ezra Klein - New York smug
Part of a series of online back and forthing about New York smuggery.
About a year after I moved from New York to New Orleans, a magazine I was writing for was planning a special issue on the theme of “New York is overrated.” My editor wanted me to contribute...
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MAPS AND PROPAGANDA | More Intelligent Life →
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2010 food spending infographic: How America's... →
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HIWI | Houston. It's Worth It. →
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WatchRadio story about hand-painted signs in Savannah, with transcript.
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Joe Jr.’s Lives →
Actually, it probably doesn’t. “Nigh on a year since closing its doors forever, city folk are still mourning the loss of Joe Jr.’s at 482 Sixth Avenue. All the last-ditch efforts to save the greasy spoon – Facebook pages and fan sites – ultimately proved ineffective. And we are still left with a decrepit eyesore of what once was; no new entity has snapped up the property yet.”
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Music Scenes, Music Clusters →
“We use lagged variables to determine whether certain places are consistently more successful at fostering concentrations of musicians and the music industry and to test for path dependency. We find some role for scale and scope effects and that both musicians and the music industry are concentrating in a relatively small number of large regional centers.”
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The State of Metropolitan America →
“The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program (led by Bruce Katz) has just released its The State of Metropolitan America report (full pdf).”
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Project seeks to save slave cabins →
Joseph McGill, a historic preservationist, wants to sleep in at least 20 slave cabins across South Carolina. He hopes spending nights in the cabins will generate interest and prompt their owners to preserve them as an important part of history.
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“Perhaps worryingly, a new generation will reject travel altogether in favor of...”
– Do The Young Prefer Virtual Sightseeing To Physical Travel? - PSFK 