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Neal Peirce on Green Philadelphia, Edward T. McMahon on Density Development
Sent May 19th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 19 May 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! 'A great green sponge' -- in a column six years ago, that's how I described the ambition of the city's watersheds director -- Howard Neukrug -- to substitute natural drainage for ...
Neal Peirce on Urban Inversion, Edward T. McMahon on Density Development
Sent May 11th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 11 May 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! Is there really a 'grand' inversion -- city and suburb -- occurring in America? Answer: In many ways, yes. In other ways, a very mixed bag. Based on Alan Ehrenahlt's new book, ...
Neal Peirce on Crowdsourcing and Cities, Doug Henton on the California Economic Summit
Sent May 3rd 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 03 May 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! The idea of 'crowdsourcing' to help cities, on every front from checking for potholes to designing exciting new projects, is an exciting -- but complex -- one. Time to look over ...
Neal Peirce on Center Stage Metro Regions, Bill Dodge on Why Nations Fail
Sent April 29th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 29 April 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! 'America's Metro Regions Take Center Stage' -- that's the bold assertion of a just-released report by our Citistates Group, featured in my column this week, offering eight reaso...
Neal Peirce on Progressive Taxation, Jon Greenberg on Gross National Happiness
Sent April 19th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 19 April 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! What a surprise -- Burned by its close ties to the NRA-backed gun law that's associated with Treyvor Martin's killing, ALEC has disbanded its task force responsible for the meas...
Neal Peirce on City-Based IT and Curtis Johnson on a Detroit Surprise
Sent April 15th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 15 April 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! The New Wave of city-based IT measures continue to amaze -- the topic of my column this week, based on the remarkable agglomeration put together in San Francisco. If there were...
Neal Peirce on Regional Education Goals and Robert Lang on America's Megapolitans
Sent April 7th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 07 April 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! Can an entire community -- even entire metropolitan region -- set educational goals, confer closely on methods, involve a broad range of civic and business leaders as well as ed...
Neal Peirce on Trayvon and MarySue Barrett on Creative Partnerships
Sent March 31st 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 31 March 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! The connections can't be missed -- the Trayvon Martin killing back to the NRA, from there back to ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), then to so many of the countr...
Neal Peirce on Metro Ethics and State Anti-Corruption Efforts
Sent March 19th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 19 March 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! This week's columns bring news of America's first ever reliable and in-depth study of ethics and corruption problems in all states. And then views of how the global economy mak...
Neal Peirce on Freeway Teardowns, David Boyd on Problem-Solving COWS
Sent March 10th 2012

Citiwire.net Citiwire.net 10 March 2012 "Welcome to Citiwire.net! It's hard to overestimate the damage, in ravaged landscapes and social-racial discrimination, that the superhighways of the post-World War II inflicted as they bulldozed their w...

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Welcome to Citiwire.net! It's about America's cities today -- opportunities, challenges, including Neal Peirce's weekly column for the Washington Post Writers Group and a parallel commentary by one of his valued Citistates Group colleagues.