September 2011
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August 2011
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Thanks Hurricane Irene!
I’m posting this just to let folks know that Hurricane Irene really messed my area up, and I don’t have any electricity. In fact, the power company is saying it could be up to two weeks before the city gets power restored. Anyway, there’s a few posts left in the queue but postings may be sparse after that. Just a heads up. Thanks again for following Such is the City!
-Kev
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Detroit is the New Detroit →
“In Detroit, the term “blank slate” is often used in relation to all of [the city’s] problems. It is both a nod to the physical landscape (barren, abandoned, waiting to be turned into farmland in the opinion of some) and the social landscape; the sense is that things here have gotten so bad that the city has turned into a tabula rasa. Detroit —in this blank slate mentality—is a canvas...
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Reimagining Mexico City →
A photo-essay from one of the world’s largest, and often most contradicted, cities.
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Good news for urban farmers in Chicago... →
“Urban farmers were delighted Tuesday when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a proposed ordinance that could make growing and selling fresh produce in Chicago much easier.”
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July 2011
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Just wanted to let my followers know that I’m currently out of town and internet is a bit sparse, so I won’t be posting as much. Once I get back home, I’ll start posting regularly again. Thanks for following!
-Kev, from …such is the city.
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The Urban Poor and the Role of Transit →
“If you ask any big city mayor what is one of the most pressing problems facing his or her city, I’m guessing poverty will be high on the list. Cities across the United States are filled with pockets of hardship, and while rural poverty is widespread, too, impoverishment within metropolitan areas tends to be strikingly concentrated near downtown. Did the rich flee or the poor converge? One...
June 2011
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Suburbs 2.0: The Evolving American Suburbs →
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The Most Endangered Historic Places →
“This year’s America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, released today, offers a few surprises in its 24th iteration. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual list includes a mountain in South Dakota, a Chinatown in California, and jazz artist John Coltrane’s ranch house in New York—as well as “sites imperiled by state actions,” a warning...
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Is the Role of the Neighbor Changing? →
“In an age when online communities often get more attention than our real-life ones, what’s the role of the neighborhood? We ask the question after reading a fantastic essay for Zocalo Public Square written by Jennifer Ferro, the general manager for the Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW. As Ferro describes the changing relationship with her own neighbors, she highlights...
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If Cities Had Faces, We'd Make Out With These... →
From the Lonely Planet:
“I’m no objectum sexual, a person with ‘pronounced emotional and often romantic desire towards particular inanimate objects’, like newlywed Erika Eiffel who changed her name and held a commitment ceremony with the Paris landmark a few years back. But, like most people, I do feel a comparable attraction to places, going so far as to cheekily assign what are generally...
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