January 2, 2009 – 12:14 pm
For Release January 4, 2009
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By Curtis Johnson
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law was much praised at the time of its passage in 2001, especially its ambitious goal to bring disadvantaged and minority school achievement into the mainstream. NCLB was seen as a rare example of bi-partisan federal policy making.
Yet now this [...]
December 26, 2008 – 2:21 pm
For Release December 28, 2008
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By Alex Marshall
While Congress gets ready for a rancorous debate over guidelines for spending billions in infrastructure stimulus funds, some states and cities are already getting deadly serious–not so much about bigger and fancier infrastructure projects, but smarter infrastructure systems.
Just this month, for example, New York City joined a group [...]
December 18, 2008 – 3:55 pm
For Release Sunday, December 21, 2008
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By Kim Walesh
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Our city, the “capital of Silicon Valley,” is known chiefly as America’s continuing birthplace of high technology ideas and products. But we also care passionately about the arts and their creative power for our people and future. Our goal is nothing less [...]
December 12, 2008 – 12:27 pm
For Release Sunday, December 14, 2008
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By Bill Dodge
In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner bemoaned the closing of the western frontier. Until then, unfettered expansion onto free land had been the nation’s development dream, even though it required forcibly dislocating its Native Americans. By the 1890s Census, however, the unrelenting flow of humanity, along with [...]
December 4, 2008 – 12:36 pm
For Release Sunday, December 7, 2008
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By Manuel Pastor, Jr.
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. We have elected the first president in decades from urban America–and he seems to get the regionalist mantra. Running a campaign that tied together voters from cities and suburbs, he promoted a metropolitan prosperity [...]
November 28, 2008 – 11:44 am
For Release Sunday, November 30, 2008
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By John Stuart Hall
A lasting principle of urbanism: great universities are enriched, and cities advanced, when academic centers are located in city centers.
Sadly, many university governing boards took a different view in the last half of the 20th century, locating or moving campuses to auto-only-accessible outlying locations.
But a [...]
November 20, 2008 – 9:27 am
For Release Sunday, November 23, 2008
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By Rick Cole
In his first press conference as president-elect, Barack Obama acknowledged, “Some of the choices that we make are going to be difficult…it is not going to be easy for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we are in.”
In this crisis, the “change we need” is [...]
November 13, 2008 – 10:48 am
For Release Sunday, November 16, 2008
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By Anthony Flint
Timing is everything.
As architects, planners, journalists, and city and nonprofit leaders gathered at the University of Philadelphia last week for the conference “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design after the Age of Oil,” the staggering challenges of our time prompted a subdued mood.
The gathering marked the 50th anniversary of the [...]
October 30, 2008 – 10:18 am
For Release Sunday, November 2, 2008
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By Robert E. Lang
A recent story in the Washington Post noted that Democrat Barack Obama is the first big city politician to run as a major party presidential candidate in many years. Yes, Senator Obama comes from Chicago–the so-called “Second City” (really the third city behind New York and Los [...]
October 23, 2008 – 10:57 am
For Release Sunday, October 26, 2008
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By William H. Hudnut III
In a column last July, my Citistates colleague Neal Peirce succinctly described federal housing policy as “a real mess.” Given the financial turmoil of the last two months, it’s accurate to say that the entire housing situation in the U.S. has slipped from bad to worse, [...]