Today’s Headlines
The Week: Is America’s Urban Comeback Overhyped? $1.1 billion Spent on L.A.’s I-405 and It’s Still Congested (L.A. Weekly) Only Relatively Recently Did Women Begin to Have a Say in How Cities Develop (The Guardian) Sprawl Booster Starts New Think Tank Promoting Houston, “Opportunity Urbanism” (Chronicle) Topeka, Kansas, Launching Bike-Share with Social Bikes (Washburn Review) … Continued
8:56 AM EST on March 6, 2015
- The Week: Is America’s Urban Comeback Overhyped?
- $1.1 billion Spent on L.A.’s I-405 and It’s Still Congested (L.A. Weekly)
- Only Relatively Recently Did Women Begin to Have a Say in How Cities Develop (The Guardian)
- Sprawl Booster Starts New Think Tank Promoting Houston, “Opportunity Urbanism” (Chronicle)
- Topeka, Kansas, Launching Bike-Share with Social Bikes (Washburn Review)
- Philly Magazine: Schoolyards Are the Next Frontier in Public Spaces
- Chicago Studying $350 Million “Superloop” Streetcar (Gazette)
- What the Amtrak Bill Means for the Northeast Corridor (Roll Call)
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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