Archives: Posts From August 2008
'Save Willets Point'
By Sandy Ikeda | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 at 6:09 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: So read a large banner I noticed strung across a building when I drove past Shea Stadium last evening.In a Crain's New York Business article, "City Quiets a Loud Willets Point Critic," Daniel Massey seems to suggest that that cause has just suffered a ...
Walking the 'Summer Streets'
By Sandy Ikeda | Tue, 26 Aug 2008 at 4:48 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Got back from Hawaii in time to participate in the third and last Saturday of "Summer Streets," in which Mayor Bloomberg closed Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park. Still jet-lagged (it's about 11 hours from ...
Are Internet Communities Cities?
By Sandy Ikeda | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 at 1:59 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: One of the courses I teach is called "Cities, Culture, & Economy." It's one of my favorites although, perhaps for that reason, it's also probably the most demanding for my students as well as for me. The requirements include a midterm, a final, five ...
On Commuter Rail in Honolulu, a State Without Cities & Max Weber
By Sandy Ikeda | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 at 1:17 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: I've been vacationing in Hawaii these past several days, spending most of the time in Honolulu. This "city" of about 377,000 is currently debating whether to address its mounting traffic congestion by building a 20-mile elevated commuter rail line that ...
Traveling with Context
By Sandy Ikeda | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 at 1:07 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: A few months ago I happened across the Web site of a company called Context Travel, which advertised "scholar-led walks of the world's greatest cities." Since this sentence had all of the hyphens and apostrophes in the right places I thought maybe they ...
WSJ on (Mostly) Urban Success Stories
By Sandy Ikeda | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 at 1:02 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: I'm a little late with this, but last Monday's Wall Street Journal devoted a whole section to success stories of economic redevelopment. You can still read it here.(Thanks again to Peter Gordon for the pointer.)There are seven articles describing (so ...
Reason Ranks Chicago Last in Personal Freedom
By Sandy Ikeda | Fri, 1 Aug 2008 at 2:20 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The Chicago Board of Aldermen recently removed its 2006 ban on foie gras on restaurant menus, one of the few victories for liberty in Chicago, which a new Reason magazine report describes as a "wet nurse of a city." Click here to read the report and see ...
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