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Photo reblogged from Trying and trying again.
Detroit, visualized by race and ethnicity. Part of an excellent series by Eric Fischer that reveals the stark racial divides within American cities.
That sharply defined slash from east to west is 8 Mile Road. It’s just as obvious on the ground.
Thanks to Brad Gillespie for the pointer.
Source: jericsinger
Photo reblogged from in the cloud with 1 note
The Chronicle has released a very interesting interactive infographic that displays trends in university tuition over time (1999-2010). It includes Public 4 and 2-year, as well as private 4 and 2-year institutions in all states.
Source: chronicle.com
Communications Help Foundations Supercharge Public Policy Efforts (the Communications Network blog) →
How do the foundations most highly-identified with public policy work use communications to advance their efforts and what can the rest of us learn from their experiences?
Source: comnetwork.typepad.com
Post reblogged from PopTech with 57 notes
The top 20 urban planning successes of all time
A fascinating post just appeared on the Public Servant Blog: “The top 20 urban planning successes of all time.” Written by “L.G.,” the list includes the following:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Billerica Garden Suburb, Massachusetts (“the country’s first garden suburb designed specifically for workers”)
- Camden Town, London (“There is no one age group, race, gender or socio-economic group that outnumbers another”)
- Chicago Boulevard System
- Eugene, Oregon (“plans to be carbon neutral with no waste by 2020”)
- Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri
- Granville Island, Vancouver (“possibly the most successful urban redevelopment ever seen in North America”)
- Greensburg Sustainable Comprehensive Plan
- High Line
- Lijnbaan in Rotterdam (“the first purpose-built pedestrian street”)
- Lower Garden District, New Orleans (“vehicles do not dominate this neighborhood”)
- Marimont, Ohio (“charming historic architecture, lush foliage, award-winning schools and friendly, community-minded residents”)
- Nine Square Plan, New Haven, Connecticut (“following the principles of ideal cities gleaned from the Bible”)
- Ponce Center City, Puerto Rico
- Sanibel Island, Florida (“nine major ecological zones”)
- South Livermore Valley Specific Plan, California (“3,229 acres under permanent agricultural easement”)
- Taos, Pueblo, New Mexico (“Possibly one of the earliest high-rise towns”)
- The Law of the Indies (“instructions for site selection and the layout and construction of new towns”)
- The Miami Valley (Ohio) Region’s Fair Share Housing Plan of 1970 (“the first ‘fair share’ housing plan in the nation”)
- The Plan of Philadelphia (“the first large American city to utilize the grid street pattern, to provide dedicated land exclusively for open green public squares”)
Source: smartercities
The Gallup study showed that while income undoubtedly influenced happiness, it did so for a particular kind of well-being—the kind one feels when reflecting on his or her own successes and prospects for the future. Day-to-day happiness is more likely to be associated with how well one’s psychological and social needs are being met, and that’s harder to achieve with a paycheck.
Source: Fast Company
“It still has moon-dust on it.” (via How Nike’s CEO Shook Up The Shoe Industry | Fast Company
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Source: Fast Company
Photo reblogged from think on this. with 30 notes
Virtually every single member of congress, every senator, every Capitol Hill staffer, every White House advisor, every Fed governor, and every major political reporter is a college graduate. What’s more, we have a large amount of social segregation in the United States—college graduates tend to socialize with each other. And among college graduates, there simply isn’t an economic crisis in the United States. This is not the best of times, but it’s perfectly rational in gradland to be balancing concern about the labor market situation with dozens of other concerns. (via Yglesias)
Source: abbyjean
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