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Columnist Daniel Weintraub recounts Sacramento State public policy professor Rob Wassmer's criticisms of a recent Brookings Institution study on sprawl in the U.S.

Architect Frank Gehry has been asked by environmentalists to resign from his position as designer of the Playa Vista project.

A new report offers alternatives to the developmental sprawl that has dominated real estate growth over the last 50 years.

North Carolina is becoming one of the fastest growing immigrant hubs in the country.

San Francisco's old Presidio military base will be converted to a tourist attraction and campus.

Researchers at Tufts University concludes that sprawl increases affordability of housing, and closes racial differences in homeownership.

Anaheim, CA is giving free use of electric cars to low-income residents as part of an antipollution project.

A federal plan to protect endangered sparrows in the Everglades National Park would increase water levels in a key canal and remove a levee. Area farmers and communities oppose the plan.

Wider sidewalks in New York's Times Square are welcome but more needs to be done.

Some progress has been made in cleaning up the Cheasapeake Bay which has been threatened by pollution and land development.

Florida residents seek new zoning and laws to protect their beaches' 95%-pure quartz sand.

The legendary Route 66, an "enduring American icon", celebrates its 75th anniversary.

Under a plan approved by the City Council, developers who want to build big must contribute to a new city housing fund or set aside more of their new buildings as low and moderate income housing.

Courts question the use of eminent domain to simply transfer property to another private owner.

The Minnesota legislature wanted to try opening the carpool and bus lanes to general traffic. They found out that it is not a simple matter.

A Washington, D.C., faith-based group is teaming up with HDU to renovate and sell hundreds of vacant homes in the D.C. area.

Comiskey Park has become every stadium architect's nightmare: It's the place where other designers learn what not to do.

After 19 months of dabate, Loudoun County adopts strict growth controls; opponents protest while experts give mixed reviews.

A controversial federal plan to transport spent nuclear fuel by train is meeting opposition from residents in towns along the route.

Illinois' condemnation powers get a boost from an appeals court ruling that enables staff or attorneys to negotiate prices for condemnations.