UNDERNEWS: Urban

2021

An alternative to 911: Atlanta 311 line now takes non-emergency mental health, drug calls

2020

42% of major cities have more renters than homeowners

2019

Fewer than 10 percent of people changed their residence in 2018, marking the lowest rate since the Census Bureau started tracking mobility. Many economic explanations come to mind as to why people might be more locked in place: lack of job opportunities, a shortage of affordable housing, and less variety in salary across cities
What urban congestion pricing is all about
41% of New York City residents say they can't afford living there
Americans like local government best
Greenest cities in America
Cities have gotten safer
101 cities now rely on renewable energy
Many large cities now mainly housing renters

ESSAYS

MOVEMENTS

MEDIA

FACTS

2018

28 cities that haven't recovered from the Great Recession
New analysis says 84% of people live in cities
Fastest growing large cities
Majority of world now lives in cities
42% of major cities have more renters than homeowners

2017
Average number of hours that a driver in Los Angeles spends sitting in traffic each year : 104
Chicago was the only city among the nation's 20 largest to lose population in 2016
Since 2000, the District of Columbia has added a net of 44,000 households of adults under 35 with no kids (millennials), 27,000 households with adults over 55 and no kidsand just 3,000 households with children

MORE LINKS

BIG BOXES
NEW RULES
PUSHING LOCAL BUSINESS

CITIES & URBAN PLANNING
ALL ABOUT CITIES
AMERICA WALKS
ARCHITECTS - DESIGNERS -PLANNERS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
CITY FOR SALE
COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTS
COUNTIES RATED FOR SPRAWL
CRITICAL MASS
GREEN BUILDING SITES
DEVELOPMENT CTR FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
FIGHTING SPRAWL
NEIGHBORHOOD INFO
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY
SPRAWL WATCH
STRONG TOWNS
SUSTAINABLE CITIES
WALKABLE COMMUNITIES

COMMUNITIES
CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY INVESTING
NEW RULES

HOMELESSNESS
NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS

MEDIA
CITYLAB

PEDESTRIANS & BIKING
AMERICA WALKS
NAT CTR FOR BIKING & WALKING
WALKABLE COMMUNITIES
WALKABLE STREETS

SPORTS & STADIA
FIELD OF SCHEMES

STATS
CITY FORWARD

TRANSPORTATION
AIRLINE MEALS
NAT ASSN OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS

URBAN ECOLOGY

THE ECOPOLITAN

ABOUT THE REVIEW

Regularly ahead of the curve, the Review has opposed federal drug policy for nearly 50 years, was a lonely media voice against the massive freeways planned for Washington, was an early advocate of bikeways and light rail, and helped spur the creation of the DC Statehood Party and the national Green Party,

In November 1990 it devoted an entire issue to the ecologically sound city and how to develop it. The article was republished widely.

Even before Clinton's nomination we exposed Arkansas political scandals that would later become major issues. .

We reported on NSA monitoring of U.S. phone calls in the 1990s, years before it became a major media story.

In 2003 editor Sam Smith wrote an article for Harper's comprised entirely of falsehoods about Iraq by Bush administration officials.

The Review started a web edition in 1995 when there were only 27,000 web sites worldwide. Today there are over 170 million active sites.

In 1987 we ran an article on AIDS. It was the first year that more than 1,000 men died of the disease.

In the 1980s, Thomas S Martin predicted in the Review that "Yugoslavia will eventually break up" and that "a challenge to the centralized soviet state" would occur as a result of devolutionary trends. Both happened.

In the 1970s we published a first person account of a then illegal abortion.

In 1971 we published our first article in support of single payer universal health care

In 1970, we ran a two part series on gay liberation.

in 1965 we called for the end of the draft.

In the 1960s we proposed community policing

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

Whatever the debate, the Review's sharp critiques encourage us to look out our window, notice and act upon what we see, and also to look further -- to the rest of the country and globe -- to see how the organized big world interacts with our more spontaneous small worlds. - Utne Reader

Urban

An alternative to 911: Atlanta 311 line now takes non-emergency mental health, drug calls

FACTS

MORE LINKS

No comments: