The answer may lie in how the Boise River greenbelt provides access to commercial services, and how

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Over at NPR's Morning Edition , Robin Boyle, professor at Detroit's Wayne State University Urban Studies and Planning Department , describes the challenges facing Detroit, a city once home to close to 2 million people, but now, just over 700,000. Boyle told Morning Edition's Renee Montagne that while some new development is taking place in the city, it's in an area roughly 7.2 square miles in size, out of a city that spans more than 130 square miles.
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Shrinking Detroit to a more manageable size in its post-industrial life is a modern reality. According to Dan Balz, writing for the Washington Post , while federal policy has long affected American cities, including Detroit, a national policy on cities would not have saved the Motor City from its fall from grace. But the city's walt disney world resorts and tickets bankruptcy begs the question: what is the role of the federal government in fostering urban vitality?
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Balz notes that federal policy hasn t always been a benefit to America s urban areas. In Boise and elsewhere, federal urban renewal policy resulted in the case of the Boise Redevelopment Agency a policy of offering up cash to tear down historic downtown blocks.
New York City s High Line was envisioned as a ribbon-like stretch of greenway, a park built on an old freight line suspended above the city. While the park has been immensely popular as a place of repose in The City That Never Sleeps, Matt Flegenheimer at The New York Times notes that the High Line has also become a de facto transportation network.
Pedestrian commuters can shave minutes off their travels, even with stairs, by using the High Line. Flegenheimer s trials found a New Yorker walking from Gansevoort Street to West 30th Street took 15 minutes to travel the distance, in contrast to a 20-minute walk at street-level.
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Boise State Public Radio s Frankie Barnhill notes that while Boise is often included in numerous Top 10 lists published across the country, the Treasure Valley s much-lauded Boise River Greenbelt is absent from a recent list of America s 19 Best City Bike Paths. Why didn t Boise s path, arguably one of the city s best alternative transportation networks, make the cut?
The answer may lie in how the Boise River greenbelt provides access to commercial services, and how it connects to other portions of the transportation walt disney world resorts and tickets network. Barnhill looks more closely at the issue, and provides insight from the Boise Department of Parks and Recreation, which manages the path.