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Congressional Black Caucus Calls for Bypassing States on New Jobs Bill
As the $787 billion stimulus law nears its one-year anniversary,
Congress' choice to route the lion's share of recovery funds through
state capitals -- including state DOTs where misplaced priorities are
all too common -- remains a sore spot for mayors and urban advocates.
December 11, 2009
Why Urban Residents Have a Bone to Pick With Vitter and Bennett
In a development that flew largely under the radar on Thursday, the Senate beat back
an attempt by David Vitter (R-LA) and Bob Bennett (R-UT) to add a
citizenship question to the 2010 U.S. Census, with the goal of no
longer counting non-citizens as part of states' official populations.
November 10, 2009
White House Urban Affairs Chief: Promising Words But Little Hint of a Plan
Adolfo Carrion Jr., director of the White House's new Office of Urban
Affairs, today vowed to begin reconnecting Washington with the needs of
the nation's cities -- even as he offered few tangible plans for
breaking through the morass of the federal bureaucracy and effecting
change in the near term.
October 6, 2009
Planetizen Unveils Its Top 100 Urban Thinkers
She may be experiencing an intellectual reconsideration in some
corners, but Jane Jacobs is still a beloved figure for the urban
planners and designers of Planetizen.
September 14, 2009
Senators Propose $4 Billion for Transit-Oriented Development Grants
Making good on a vow first reported
in Streetsblog Capitol Hill, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris
Dodd (D-CT) and three colleagues today offered a bill authorizing $4
billion in grants to help states and cities pursue transit-oriented
development, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and other green
transport projects.
August 6, 2009
Livable Streets Expert Enrique Peñalosa Comes to San Francisco
San Francisco's livable streets advocates have a chance to participate in a public forum tomorrow with Enrique Peñalosa, who, as mayor of traffic-clogged Bogotá, Colombia, implemented a s⁞weeping set of improvements to transit and the pedestrian realm.
July 6, 2009
Revisiting the San Francisco Freeway Revolt
Editor's note: This piece was written for Shaping San Francisco and is now incorporated into the new wiki version, your best place to research San Francisco history, FoundSF.org.
June 11, 2009
A Livable Street in the Making: 17th Street Ped Plaza Nearly Complete
In less than 24 hours, city officials, including Mayor Gavin Newsom, will be standing in a new pedestrian plaza on the former roadway at 17th Street at Market Street to announce the long-anticipated opening of the street as public space, the first of several such projects that will appear throughout the city over the next year.
May 12, 2009
Of Teamsters and Turtles, Plumbers and Progressives
Ever since the much-promoted alliance between “teamsters and
turtles” at the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999, there’s been a renewed
hope that the decades-long opposition between organized labor and
environmentalists might be resolvable. The original Teamsters and
turtles weren’t really in much of an alliance in 1999, what with
AFL-CIO leaders trying their best to keep the labor march away from
occupied downtown Seattle on November 30, 1999. But we don’t have to
rehash that old story because we have a new, local angle on this here
in 2009 San Francisco.
May 4, 2009