More examples of commercial uses in residential spaces have been added. I'm not suggesting residential buildings be demolished for commercial ones. I am...
NEWCOLONIST <http://www.cafepress.com/newcolonist> [New Colonist] <http://www.newcolonist.com/index.html> The Road Not Taken by Lynn Miller My wife and I...
I've been in Brooklyn just a little more than a month now. I recall investigating New York neighborhoods to live in and naively asked someone what they thought...
Forbes recently did a list of top citie sto cut your gas bill. You might have guessed Baltimore and San Francisco, but the list also includes Phoenix and Los...
Urban American Now Experiencing Black Flight Chicago, New York, San Francisco are losing black residents, changing neighborhoods and remaking urban America. ...
Finding Penn Station After reading the book, Conquering Gotham by Jill Jones, I've been on a hunt for pieces of Penn Station, several of which I have found...
What's was NY's mayor doing during Palin's address? Why is LA building a subway to the sea? Keep up to date on urban happenings by following The New Colonist...
A display went up this week in a pedestrian island surrounded by a sea of auto traffic. Today I thought it may not be such a good idea to have it there, as...
Giving Up A Right-of-Passage I lived car-free for many years in San Francisco, and even a few months in Pittsburgh. Today I am re-learning the car-free life in...
I have read several articles and opinion pieces by columnists that start or include a phrase like '"The roots of today's mortgage-based financial crisis can be...
The New Colonist will celebrate ten years in 2009 and we're planning some refinements to celebrate. We're currently exploring some new logos and slogans. We'd...
Street Food: Massimo's Mudspot, Los Angeles by G. S. Morey My urban landscape is in a drought. Not of water (that stuff is only good for sustaining life), but...
The 15-Minute Cuisine [Pennsylvania Farmland as seen from Amtrak's Pennsylvanian #42] I was fine for a few days away from my computer, but on the train home...
The 15-Minute Cuisine [Pennsylvania Farmland as seen from Amtrak's Pennsylvanian #42] I was fine for a few days away from my computer, but on the train home...
The word "car" was mentioned four times in President Barack Obama's speech to Congress last night. But the most unnerving words came when he used the word...
With the recent Washington DC Metro wreck, we thought it would be a good time to talk about just how dangerous commuter rail is. We compare it to walking,...
Listen to East Allegheny resident Nick Kyriazi talk about living car free in Pittsburgh with The new Colonist. http://www.newcolonist.com/podcasts.html...
Altoona has another tooth missing. It seems each time I de-board a train in my hometown I find another downtown building has fallen victim to shortsightedness,...
Bicycle Fixation has just posted our review of Kronan's "Classic" city bike, a Eurostyle cruiser for short commutes and cargo runs. We kept it for a month or...
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