Welcome to Citiwire.net! It’s about America’s cities today — opportunities, challenges, including my weekly column for the Washington Post Writers Group and a parallel commentary by one of my valued Citistates Group colleagues. Keith Schneider has for years kept his finger on a new American future as New York Times special correspondent, founder of the Michigan land Use Institute, and now director of communications for the Apollo Alliance. My column’s focus this week: Can we tap cutting-edge Internet technology to make our city governments truly more responsive?
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- Water Plan for the Century: Philadelphia’s Breakthrough (2)
tom e bowers: WOW! Thanks for encouraging others to look to nature over expensive man-made solutions.
Ann Breen: Hi Neal: Great to see this story getting more and more coverage. If you want more cases as you track this...
- Density Without High-Rises? (20)
Paul Downton: I very much agree with McMahon. I enjoy some high-rise buildings – but they don’t work well as...
Mayraj Fahim: See also news about a new survey released by the National Association of Realtors:...
- Crowdsourcing’s Golden Moment (7)
Raymond Versteegh: This is a great blog post, Neal, with excellent examples of citizen engagement and crowdsourcing...
- Urban U.S.A. Remade: A ‘Grand Inversion’? (8)
Art Lewellan: My participation in Portland Oregon planning led me away from New Urbanism toward (metropolitan area)...
Charlie Doggett: Great article! This inversion has definitely started in Nashville. One thing that concerns me as an...
Ellen McCarthy: Karen Schoen - You’re kidding, right? Young people want to live in cities because cities are...
- Making the Case: America’s Regions on the Rise (7)
Karen Schoen: Regionalism as promoted in the communist manifesto and also in UN Agenda 21. Regionalism is necessary...
- Water Plan for the Century: Philadelphia’s Breakthrough (2)
