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America's Best Bike City: Portland, OR

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Bicycling - By Bill Donahue - May. 26 (Opinion) - Sit down, please, and take a deep belly breath now, for the truth is harsh: When a bicyclist pedals down toward the Willamette River, which divides Portland, Oregon, the waters do not part. The automobile traffic does not cease. Cars honk, and in a city obsessed with green transit, there are train rails—a gleaming cyclist’s nightmare—crisscrossing everywhere. And it rains. The sky is a brooding gray between October and May, and in winter the rain, falling as a fine, gentle mist, can be so cold that your gloves almost freeze on your handlebar. And as you near the river, you may find one of Portland’s five drawbridges raised high so a giant steel China-bound cargo ship can come churning through.

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Winds of change brewing

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Jo Chandler - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Beddington argues, pragmatically, that while much is uncertain about the longer-term, the challenges of the next 20 years are clear: population growth (another billion people by 2025); urbanisation; and climate change as a consequence of the greenhouse

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Academic program helps city students try polo in the county

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Gail Hare - Jul. 24 (News) - The all-girls private school in Owings Mills is sharing its rich equestrian history with a dozen students from East Baltimore neighborhoods. Riding is only one of the classes the school is offering its city guests, who are participating in the Middle Grades Partnership, a public and private school collaboration sponsored by the Baltimore Community Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the quality of life throughout the region.

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Municipal, county governments do more cooperating than arguing

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Megan Poinski - Jul. 18 (News) - And while there is no stampede to form new towns – the state’s newest municipalities, North Chevy Chase and Martin’s Additions, are close to 20 years old – municipalities and counties are both still co-existing, evolving, and working together.

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David Harvey: A View From Federal Hill Revisited (at the City From Below in 2009)

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By David Harvey - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - In 2009, The Baltimore Development Cooperative, Red Emma's, and the Indypendent Reader organized a conference on grasroots responses to urban injustice called The City From Below, which kicked off with a presentation by radical geographer and ex-Baltimorean David Harvey. In his talk, he revisited his classic 1991 essay "A View From Federal Hill," which appeared for the first time in the Baltimore Book, and which presented a still essential overview of the way in which private interests had shaped the public urban landscape of Baltimore City. For the City From Below, David Harvey updated his analysis in light of two more decades of development and the global financial crisis which began in 2008, presenting this all to a rapt crowd gathered on Federal Hill itself and overlooking the neoliberal city.

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Urban food security: Feeding tomorrow's cities

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By Paul Teng, Margarita Escaler, Mely Caballero‐Anthony - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - Urban food riots have already destabilised governments. Can the world's cities be fed?Paul Teng, Margarita Escaler and Mely Caballero‐Anthony say that city‐dwellers may have to grow more of their own food.

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The ungreen city — or the polluting countryside?

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By Chris Smaje - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - City‐dwellers have public transport, efficient buildings and services, everything near at hand; their country cousins travel by car and their services have to be brought long distances. City living damages the planet less. So says the new orthodoxy — but is it true?Chris Smaje asks if cities are really greener.

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The Good Life

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Greg Hanscom - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - Suburbs are retooling, putting in walkable "downtowns," cute coffee shops, and other amenities. Can Baltimore City compete?

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US Mayors Pass First Anti-War Resolution Since 1971 – The Organizers' Back Story!

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By Corey Reidy - Jun. 22 (News) - The US Conference of Mayors just passed an historic resolution urging Congress and the President to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so that the trillions of dollars currently squandered on illegal wars can be poured back into our communities and used for funding our enormous unmet human needs here at home. But there is a back story to the passage of this resolution and it involves the months of work by national and Baltimore-based activists who worked to get the resolution written, introduced and passed.

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Mayors See End to Wars as Fix for Struggling Cities

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Cooper - Jun. 17 (News) - While states are seeing their tax collections begin to rise again, much to the relief of budget-battered officials, the nation’s cities are having a far rougher time, with many losing state and federal aid just as the burst housing bubble is belatedly driving down property taxes.

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Chop Style: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Baltimore Chop - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - We would hope that it doesn’t still need to be said in 2011, but apparently it does. The old rule still stands: No shirt, No shoes, No service.

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Shifting Gears

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Mat Edelson - May. 31 (News Analysis) - Ask any cyclist about these international road lane markings—usually two forward-pointing stripes sitting atop an outlined bicyclist—and they'll tell you that they amount to a two-word battle cry: "We belong."

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In the Exurbs

Tue, 31 May 2011 06:56:14 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - May. 31 (News Analysis) - A new Brookings Institution report on our cities and suburbs has some surprising findings about where crime is down...and where it's up.

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My Dream Downtown

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Towson Patch - By Marian Eichelman Matthis - May. 06 (Opinion) - We haven’t had a lot to be excited about in terms of downtown Towson retail in quite some time. Let’s face it. It’s a little depressing to recount the number of shops and restaurants that have disappeared since we moved to Towson in 2004. So, we won’t.

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Mayors say walking and biking, not highways, should be top priority

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew editors - May. 04 (News) - If they had greater control over federal dollars, U.S. mayors would have far different transportation priorities than the states that now hold the power of the purse.

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City grown: Subculture of urban farmers takes hold in Baltimore

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

b free daily - By Anthony Fair - Apr. 22 (News) - In the middle of northeast Baltimore — amid the brick rowhomes, the concrete sidewalks and the steady stream of automobiles — is a patch of land that to an outsider looks completely out of place. Rows of crops sprouting out of the ground? Chickens laying eggs? Bees making honey? Believe it.

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New quake southwest of Tokyo shakes confidence

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CTV News - Mar. 15 (News) - Tokyo was rocked by a massive tremor on Tuesday, compounding the fears of residents already gripped by concerns that nuclear radiation from a damaged power plant could reach the city.

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Getting denser

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Mar. 14 (Opinion) - Our view: Baltimore is still losing population, but downtown is booming, placing it among the most crowded city centers in the nationBaltimore may have lost another 30,000 people during the last decade, but in one key measure of urban vitality, we're holding strong.

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Uphill battle to rid the city of vacant properties

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Feb. 09 (News) - "As housing advocates, community leaders and developers gather today for a day-long summit on Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's "Vacants to Value" program, data from the city housing department indicate that despite incremental gains, officials are far from making a dent in the city's 30,000 vacant properties."

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Project targets vacant housing

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Doug Donovan - Jan. 18 (News) - "The city's housing department has launched an aggressive citywide effort to force owners of approximately 6,000 vacant houses on stable streets to sell or repair their properties - or else. Vacant housing has long been one of Baltimore's most intractable problems and a blight that deters private investment in some city neighborhoods, especially when boarded-up properties are peppered along otherwise healthy blocks."

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