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Archives for May 2016

How Newcastle Went From Post-Industrial Wasteland to Top 10 Global Travel Destination

May 22, 2016 By Aaron M. Renn

Creating Cities by Marcus Westbury I'll make it easy for you: buy this book. Creating Cities is an engaging, well-written overview of the Renew Newcastle effort in Australia that helped turn the moribund downtown of a fading steel city into one of Lonely Planet's top ten global travel destinations in 2011. But not only a breezy read and a feel good case study, this book is also a celebration of bottom-up urbanism, and citizens taking the revitalization of their city into their own hands. In contrast to the typical top down planning, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Demographics and Economic Development, Governance and Public Services, Newcastle (Australia), Urban Culture

The Cultural Power of New York City

May 18, 2016 By Aaron M. Renn

I've never been a huge theater guy in general, much less Broadway shows. So I never paid that much attention to it. But the smash success of Hamilton is something hard to ignore. And it really provides a window into the overwhelming cultural power of New York. Hamilton is a play that is running at a theater that seats 1,300 people. You'd think that by its very nature as one play, in one city, in a not that big venue, it would be limited in the effects it could have. But Hamilton turned out to be a sensation whose effects extended far … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New York, Urban Culture

A $63 Million High School Football Stadium Shows Changing Republican Values

May 13, 2016 By Aaron M. Renn

A lot of so-called "movement" conservatives dislike Donald Trump because he isn't conservative in their view. Some of them have sadly concluded that much of their own base is not as well, being much more open to things like protectionist trade policy than in years gone by. Their focus has been on working class voter, but another chunk of the Republican electorate,  namely upscale metropolitan Republicans, is also moving away from some traditional conservative positions. These middle to upper middle class Republicans have little interest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dallas, Governance and Public Services, Urban Culture

Sun Belt Problems Come to New York City

May 4, 2016 By Aaron M. Renn

Surging subway ridership in New York has driven a flurry of press recently, including this piece in the New York Times: Subway ridership in New York is in the midst of a resurgence almost unimaginable in the 1970s and ’80s, when the system was defined by graffiti and crime. Ridership has steadily risen to nearly six million daily riders today from about four million in the 1990s. But the subway infrastructure has not kept pace, and that has left the system with a litany of needs, many of them essential to maintaining current service or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New York, Planning, Transport, and Environment

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About Aaron M. Renn


 
Aaron M. Renn is an opinion-leading urban analyst, consultant, speaker, and writer on a mission to help America’s cities and people thrive and find real success in the 21st century. (Photo Credit: Daniel Axler)
 
Email: aaron@aaronrenn.com
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