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	<title>The Cosmopolitan Urbanist &#187; Urban Planning</title>
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		<title>Take the time to design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want everything I own, sit on, drive in, drive on, drive through, play with, touch - use in any way-to be well and thoughtfully designed.  That doesn't mean I need 18k gold chairs.  It means that I want the things I buy and use to be purposeful and pretty.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/05/07/take-the-time-to-design/</link>
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		<title>Got shrinkage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flint, Michigan is one example of, probably, hundreds of cities that are dying; high unemployment, the foreclosure crisis, and young people and families moving out of town have left whole neighborhoods is decline.  Last year I drove through neighborhoods in Detroit and observed that on many streets, for every occupied home there were three or four that were vacant and boarded up.

I was saddened by the sight, especially as I'd always thought of Detriot as the quintessential city.  As I drove out of town, I started to brainstorm ways that depressed communities, like Flint, Detroit, and many others around the country, can regenerate themselves.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/05/04/got-shrinkage/</link>
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