Welcome to Citiwire.net! A big event for all urbanists–UN Habitat Day 2009–comes up soon in Washington. Suggest you check highlights on our Citistates page– (www.citistates.com) … And about this week’s columns: From corner pubs to Internet buzz to big-time citistate positioning in a carbon-challenged age, modern-day urbanism ranges incredibly far and wide. My piece takes a look at progress of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC, arguably America’s most comprehensive city plan for 21st century survival and growth (setting a high mark for other cities to match). Mary Newsom, by contrast, probes just what it is that makes the elbow rubbing of city places and spaces so special, how human “Third Places” so clearly outclass electronic “friending,” the varieties of web networking bubbling around us.
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