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On AlterNet: urban

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "urban"

Note to the '08 Candidates: The American Heartland is a Big City

Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: Video. December 20, 2007.
Mayors urge presidential candidates to address urban issues.

Suburbia: Running on Empty?

Suburbia: Running on Empty?

James Howard Kunstler, Salgamundi. December 14, 2006.
Robert Bruegmann argues in his new book that urban sprawl will continue because people like it, but reviewer James Howard Kunstler counters that the petro-dependent suburban era is just about finished.

Conservatives' Vision of an America Without Cities

Conservatives' Vision of an America Without Cities

Jeremy Adam Smith, Public Eye. December 12, 2006.
Rural Americans tend to see city culture as a haven for loose morals. Lucky for them, the Electoral College, Senate and federal budget have tilted power toward the heartland.

Cities of the Future Won't Look Like Ours

James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. October 23, 2006.
The era of cheap oil is over, and lost with it an energy-rich way of life that billions of city dwellers have come to take for granted.