Raise the Hammer

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List of sections in Raise the Hammer, with links to each article in that section.

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• Do City Bikes Reduce Cars In Cities? - Once you get your first class city bike project in place and enough people start to use it, you begin to get a new metric for your city that places increased value on proximity and multi-modal mobility. Published 2008/03/24

• Hamilton Education Centre: The Dilemma and the Agenda - If we want to project an image to private investment that Hamilton is the right place to invest, then we first need to invest in our downtown ourselves. Published 2008/02/14

• Changing the Rules - Most cyclists already treat stop signs as yields without incident. Why not make it official? Published 2007/06/27

• Hamilton's Heat Alert Strategy Full of Hot Air - The city health department's heat alert strategy is vague and ineffectual. We need a detailed plan that reaches and protects our most vulnerable residents. Published 2007/06/07

• How to Shift our Transport Paradigm: Learning from Grenoble - Re-balancing our urban transport network is possible, but it takes time and a real political campaign to change people's minds. Published 2007/05/18

• The Ambitious City's Victorian Values - A history of Britain's Victorian industrial cities offers compelling lessons for Hamilton. Published 2007/03/19

• Hamilton's Future: Forget About It - A myopic employment study prepared for City Council by Hemson Consulting imagines a dreary, low-skilled future of air transport and goods warehousing. Published 2007/02/09

• Trying to Kick the Car Habit - City Hall is committed to walkable streets, but on the Department of Public Works' terms. Published 2006/11/23

• High Interest: Protecting the Illegitimate Profits of Payday Lenders - The payday loan industry is booming, but the interest they charge is against the law. Now they want the law changed - or they'll be out of business. Published 2006/10/06

• Tivoli Special Edition - The Tivoli Theatre: Comentary - History - Redevelopment - The Future Published 2005/04/04