Welcome to Citiwire.net! After years of avoiding a column on population issues, I’m making the dive this week… it’s an increasingly compelling issue we can’t just keep ignoring. Would welcome any thoughts you may have in response. The guest Citiwire column, on the success predicament of public transit, is by a man who knows it well — Tom Downs, Citistates Group Associate, career public servant and veteran CEO of agencies ranging from New Jersey Transit to Amtrak.
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- Density Without High-Rises? (16)
Neal Peirce: Readers will find an interesting pick up by Richard Florida on Ed McMahon’s article — on...
Anthony Harvath: Mr. McMahon is correct that “city” densities can be achieved without high rises. But just try it....
Eric Panzer: I think that it is nearly always a mistake to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach. I think there are...
- Urban U.S.A. Remade: A ‘Grand Inversion’? (7)
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...
Karen Schoen: Students are being guided out of cars and forced into urban planned developments from the phony green...
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Karen Schoen: Regionalism as promoted in the communist manifesto and also in UN Agenda 21. Regionalism is necessary...
- Communities Setting Audacious ‘Cradle to Career’ Education Goals (1)
Ken Wood: “Then they’re sets of markers such as an improvement of 6th grade reading proficiency from 61...
- Why Nations (and Regions) Fail (2)
Darrell Marcy: Hi Bill, I can’t believe it. A few weeks before your column I saw this book in our public...
- Crowdsourcing’s Golden Moment (6)
Lauren Dyson: This is a great overview of some of the major success stories about tech for civic engagement in US...
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