September 11, 2008 – 9:58 am
For Release Sunday, September 14, 2008
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By Neal Peirce
For years, in company with most journalists, I’ve been ducking the population issue. We Americans seem to have it on our DNA — we believe that all economic development and growth, no matter the consequences, is a positive thing.
But a new [...]
September 11, 2008 – 9:57 am
For Release Sunday, September 14, 2008
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By Tom Downs
For public transit in America, 2008 has produced a vivid “best” and “worst” of times scenario.
After 50 years of sagging ridership and lost stature, buses and transit trains are back in heavy demand. Nationwide ridership is 4.5 percent higher than 2007, with some cities experiencing growth of [...]
September 11, 2008 – 9:57 am
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 [...]
September 4, 2008 – 9:31 am
Welcome to Citiwire.net! With the presidential campaign gaining steam, I decided to check how McCain and Obama stand on drugs and incarceration — critically important American issues so rarely addressed in campaigns. Citistates Associate Doug Henton writes the Citiwire.net column for the week. Founder-leader of Palo-Alto-based Collaborative Economics and a major national authority [...]
September 4, 2008 – 9:21 am
For Release Sunday, September 7, 2008
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By Doug Henton
What do Portland, Ore., and California’s Silicon Valley have in common?
Both are leaders in the critical transition to the new paradigm described in Curt Johnson’s recent Citiwire.net article — a high efficiency and environmentally low impact model, reversing Americans’ profligate, high-impact, low-efficiency culture of the past half century.
And [...]
September 4, 2008 – 8:46 am
For Release Sunday, September 7, 2008
© 2008 Washington Post Writers Group
By Neal Peirce
Will America’s ill-starred “war on drugs” and its expanding prison culture make it into the presidential campaign?
Standard wisdom says “no way.”
We may have the world’s highest rate of incarceration — with 5 percent of global population, 25 percent of prisoners worldwide. [...]
August 28, 2008 – 10:25 pm
For Release Sunday, August 31, 2008
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By Neal Peirce
For close to a century, the automobile has so boldly seized Americans’ imagination — sparking the economy, paving the continent, designing our neighborhoods — that even the thought of curbing its dominion seems unnatural.
But check what’s happening right now:
High gasoline prices are [...]
August 28, 2008 – 10:23 pm
For Release Sunday, August 31, 2008
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By Scott Polikov
America’s 60-year development pattern has broken down, like an exhausted 1950 Chevy rusting at roadside. But the building and real estate industry is only slowly awakening to the new reality.
We all knew the pattern, popularized after World War II and mostly triumphant since. A smart builder [...]
August 28, 2008 – 10:16 pm
Welcome to Citiwire.net! We promised to focus on a new American narrative in these dispatches, and this week’s columns match. My Citistates colleague Scott Polikov, president of the Fort Worth-based Gateway Planning Group, describes exciting new development economics that match the today’s sustainability imperatives. My regular column focuses on pathbreaking barriers to the [...]
August 22, 2008 – 7:20 pm
Welcome to Citiwire.net! The guest column this week, by California’s famed planning journalist and Citistates Group Associate William Fulton, pinpoints what may be an historic turning point: state transportation funding, coveted by localities, linked to “smart growth” local practices. As for me, I’ve been waiting for years to write a realistic “back to the [...]