Archive for March, 2008

Next American City » Daily Report » Washington DC’s Affordable Housing Follows the Money

dmerkow on Mar 31st 2008

Next American City » Daily Report » Washington DC’s Affordable Housing Follows the Money

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MinnPost - Sprawl: It isn’t new — and it isn’t all bad

dmerkow on Mar 31st 2008

MinnPost - Sprawl: It isn’t new — and it isn’t all bad

Shorter Brueggmann

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Piercing This Bubble For Good

dmerkow on Mar 31st 2008

Piercing This Bubble For Good

On why the bubble inflated . . .

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Reporter’s Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention: Day 3

dmerkow on Mar 31st 2008

Reporter’s Notebook: Highlights from the 2008 OAH Convention: Day 3

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Worst Chicago-area foreclosures — chicagotribune.com

dmerkow on Mar 31st 2008

Worst Chicago-area foreclosures — chicagotribune.com

Some data from Chicago . . .

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The OAH Convention: Report with Youtube / Book Review, the 60s and Gen X

dmerkow on Mar 30th 2008

Over at Hnn, Rick Shenkman

Day One

Day Two

The Sixties and GenX in the WP.

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Race and Art

dmerkow on Mar 30th 2008

The Topic Is Race; the Art Is Fearless, Cotter NYT

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The Big Apple’s Little Boom

dmerkow on Mar 30th 2008

The Big Apple’s Little Boom

Babies in the big city . . .

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So how does place matter? | Plan Philly: Planning Philadelphia’s Future

dmerkow on Mar 28th 2008

So how does place matter? | Plan Philly: Planning Philadelphia’s Future

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Cities edited out of this election? | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/28/2008

dmerkow on Mar 28th 2008

Cities edited out of this election? | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/28/2008

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In N.Va., a Latino Community Unravels

dmerkow on Mar 27th 2008

In N.Va., a Latino Community Unravels

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Report Details Lender’s Collapse - washingtonpost.com

dmerkow on Mar 27th 2008

Report Details Lender’s Collapse - washingtonpost.com

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Lefkowitz Agonistes: a Contemporary Odyssey - ChronicleReview.com

dmerkow on Mar 25th 2008

Lefkowitz Agonistes: a Contemporary Odyssey - ChronicleReview.com

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Sprawl & the New Urbanism

dmerkow on Mar 24th 2008

Sprawl & the New Urbanism

Great Website at UC-Berkeley, I’ll also add the link on the Blogroll.

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Tiny Towns in N.J. May Have to Merge

dmerkow on Mar 23rd 2008

Tiny Towns in N.J. May Have to Merge

The diversity of gov’t form . . .

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On Changes in Musical Theater in the 1950s

dmerkow on Mar 23rd 2008

Interesting article in Sunday’s NYT

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A weekend link dump

dmerkow on Mar 22nd 2008

Implications for political economy - Weekly Standard, Stelzer

Review of a book on the comic scare of the 1950s, NYT Powers

On J.D. Salinger and his contemporary intellectual descendants, NYT Morrice

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‘My House. My Dream. It Was All an Illusion.’

dmerkow on Mar 22nd 2008

‘My House. My Dream. It Was All an Illusion.’

Another local story in the WashPost . . .

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USA Today on the new census data

dmerkow on Mar 20th 2008

Lots of good data on changes in American society. Pretty interesting maps.

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The financial cause of the current calamity

dmerkow on Mar 19th 2008

Probably the best explanation of what is going on in the financial and housing markets. Leonhardt in the NYT.

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volume 4, issue 1—Special Issue On The City | March 2008

dmerkow on Mar 19th 2008

volume 4, issue 1—Special Issue On The City | March 2008

Some interesting, might be valuable for some of your research.

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Transcript of Obama speech - Politico.com Print View

dmerkow on Mar 19th 2008

Transcript of Obama speech - Politico.com Print View

We’ll spend some time chatting about it tomorrow.

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Housing Crunch Flattens More Companies

dmerkow on Mar 16th 2008

Housing Crunch Flattens More Companies

Bad news in the D.C. area . . .

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A recent story that ties into Sundquist

dmerkow on Mar 16th 2008

A story about a black Jewish rabbi and his congregation in Chicago.

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Suffering in Silence Over Foreclosure

dmerkow on Mar 16th 2008

Suffering in Silence Over Foreclosure

A very local story about the foreclosure/real estate crisis (Maryland suburbs).

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