Nate Berg
Nate Berg is a former contributing editor for Planetizen and a freelance journalist.
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Nate Berg is a former contributing editor for Planetizen and a freelance journalist. He has contributed to The New York Times, National Public Radio, Wired, Fast Company, Metropolis, Next American City, Dwell, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, and Domus, among others. Nate studied print journalism and environmental planning at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.
Free Bus Idea Fizzles in Eugene
<p>A proposal to make Eugene, Oregon's bus system fare-free has been voted down by the regional transit district.</p>
Blight in Full Color
<p> Every city has blight – the unsightly, derelict, abandoned, disheveled, and under-utilized spaces of our urban areas. It drains the life out of neighborhoods, drives down the values of surrounding properties, and just looks really bad. So what do cities do about it? Some seize it through eminent domain for redevelopment and others offer incentives to developers to replace it with something better. Many of them, though, don’t do anything at all. But removing blight from a city is not impossible, and it doesn’t have to be an elaborate multi-party scheme or a drawn-out political process. It can be as simple as a coat of paint.<br />
Green Building Requirement Weighed in San Francisco
<p>The city of San Francisco is considering a proposal to require most new commercial and residential buildings to comply with the green building standard LEED.</p>
'Oldest Urban Site' Unearthed
<p>What may be the oldest urban site in the world has been unearthed in Peru.</p>
Boomers Cause Boom in Hospital Construction
<p>Hospitals are being built and renovated all across the country -- a trend responding to the aging baby boomer population.</p>