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    what do you do to advocate for housing development?

    Fantastic attitude kmp. Never mind.
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    2012 MSA Population Estimates Out

    I've pasted the 20 fastest growing (2010-2012 in absolute terms, not by rate) here and read around a bit. Two in the Northeast (quite a turnaround - Boston and New York, unless you count Washington), none in the Midwest. Boston includes Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk, Middlesex, Plymouth, Rockingham...
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    A/N Blog piece on Boston

    http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/51066
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    American Urban Form: A Representative History

    Pen-and-ink illustrated history of hypothetical American city may be of interest to some folks: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12853
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    Maxwell's Green | Magoun Square | Somerville

    Not sure if this already has a thread http://boston.curbed.com/archives/2012/03/the-future-of-hub-development-is-in-somervilles-newest-yoga-studio.php
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    ArchBoston equivalents for other cities

    The ArchBoston community is thorough in its review of Boston development projects if nothing else. Can you think of equivalent communities in other cities? The Curbed blogs cover development issues (in DC, SF, LA, NY, Seattle, Chi) but the lack of a wiki format makes them inferior in my...
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    DC loses black majority

    Very interesting article on DC demographics http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/us/18dc.html?pagewanted=all
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    Tea Party and Smart Growth

    Thoughts? http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/tea-party-agenda-21-un-sustainable-development
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    Emerson's Hollywood extension campus

    Emerson's Hollywood extension campus .. new rendering http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/09/thom_mayne_brings_the_future_to_hollywood.php
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    recession demographics

    some recent finds "big city populations survive the housing crunch" from brookings. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0701_housing_frey.aspx and - florida shrank in the last year according to projections. http://www.newgeography.com/content/00961-report-florida-losing-population The...
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    Shift in HUD policy

    ?I?ve always said the American dream should be a home - not homeownership,?? said Representative Barney Frank.... (losing his memory apparently) http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/08/16/president_shifts_focus_to_renting_not_owning/
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    Green Cities, Brown Suburbs

    From Edward Glaeser: http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_1_green-cities.html
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    Why There's No Hope

    "Of course we're played out in this country --no news there. We're effete and incapable of potent action like the last emperor's China: bureaucratized, demoralized, traumatized and paralyzed. So what else is new? Haven't most of us known this for ages?" phew, another source of gut-wrenching...
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    Signs of Suburbia's Demise (finally)?

    The next slum? rikahlberg posted this on another thread but i dont think anyone took notice - i think it deserves its own: "The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today?s McMansions into tomorrow?s tenements."...
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    The other Bunker Hill

    In 1876 the city of Los Angeles named the increasingly fashionable hill on the western side of the town 'Bunker Hill' for the centennial in honor of the Battle of Bunker Hill. 80 years later it was quite in middle of a 7m metro area, deemed blighted, and became the site of the nation's first...
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    Black Gold in Torrance!

    Could it be? Yes it's an oil rig in the parking lot of a (very nice) Target in Torrance, CA, or maybe Lomita, about 20 miles SW of Los Angeles. Note the landscaping.
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    Eastern MA Population Projections

    Don't know if you've seen this ... population and employment projections of eastern MA cities and towns 2010-2030: http://www.mapc.org/2006_projections.html

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