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Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2022 In 2004, the City if Denver committed $4.7 billion to an ambitious transit project called FasTracks<\/a>, to be completed by 2017. Supported by thirty-two regional mayors, FasTacks included provisions for six new light and commuter railway lines along with 29km of bus lanes across the metropolitan area. But 6 years later almost almost nothing has been constructed. This week The Economist<\/a> looks at what went wrong in Denver and why the city is back at the drawing board.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Los Angeles residents are getting a respite from the city\u2019s ubiquitous corporate mega-ads, as 21 billboards around the city are displaying the work of local artists<\/a>. The project, entitled \u201cHow Many Billboards? Art In Stead”<\/a> is a large-scale urban art-installation organized by Los Angeles\u2019 MAK Center for Art & Architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 On the topic of billboards, the New York Times<\/a> recently looked at the risks that emerge when the medium goes digital.\u00a0 According to critics, digital billboards–constantly changing and visible from a great distance–work to distract drivers and can be more dangerous than cell phones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The CityFix Mumbai Blog<\/a> reports on the launch of the city\u2019s first bike sharing programs–Cycle Chalao<\/a> and FreMo<\/a>–and the budding cycling culture in India\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Recent images from Haiti <\/a>and Chile<\/a> are jarring reminders of the kind of havoc earthquakes can wreak on precarious urban environments. An article in the New York Times<\/a> finds that millions of people in the\u00a0 developing world are at risk of a similar fate as burgeoning makeshift communities continue to be constructed along earthquake fault lines.<\/p>\n

photo of Denver RTD’s light rail by Jeffrey Beall <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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