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Twenty-one global Cities nominate solutions to meet challenges for 110...
The Urbanist Dispatch is proud to be a collaborating partner for the Living Labs Global Award 2012. New innovative ideas are needed to move cities forward, and the 2012 nominees have been announced!...
View ArticleCharter for Canadian Urbanism enacted
The 2013 Summit of the Council for Canadian Urbanism in Halifax saw the signing of The Charter for Canadian Urbanism. The final charter is a work that stemmed from the first draft presented in Toronto...
View ArticlePlaces in the Making: New MIT Research on Placemaking Reveals the Power of...
Today a new white paper was released by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the subject of Placemaking. The team is headed by faculty Susan...
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Bikes outsell Automobiles in United States and almost all of Europe.
National Public Radio has reported that the number of bicycles is outselling cars in almost all of european countries, with countries such as Italy seeing new bicycle sales outpacing new car sales for...
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In the works for over 150 years, Istanbul’s New Tunnel Finally links Europe...
In 1860, as the United States was in the early stages of their Civil War, Sultan Abdülmecid I, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in present day Turkey hatched a plan to construct a tunnel that...
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Cincinnati’s Streetcar Project looks to be the first casualty of the 2013...
On Tuesday, municipal elections across the United States brought fourth a lot of change to the way urban policy will be shaped in the coming years. While we await to see how the policies of many new...
View ArticleSydney, Australia has the world’s best reputation among cities
The Reputation Institute has released a slew of data for 2013 in a series of reports which rank the global reputations of cities and countries around the world. A good reputation for a place is much...
View ArticleHUD Hands out $4 million in Choice Neighborhood Planning Grants
The U.S. Government’s Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that nine communities around the country would be recipients of the 2013 Choice Neighborhood Planning grants. Grant...
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Pittsburgh enters its stride with a progressive new Mayor
The press has been very kind to the City of Pittsburgh recently, and rightly so. The Brookings Institute heralded Pittsburgh as one of only three cities nationally to fully recover from the recession,...
View ArticleJudge rules Detroit eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy
United States Federal Bankruptcy Judge Stephen Rhodes has ruled that the city of Detroit meets all criteria to enter into Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. This is a standard first step in any...
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