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New zoning offers incentives to developers that provide open space and public amenities.

The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 25 lecturing/research awards in Architecture and Urban Planning for the 2002-2003 academic year.

A long-awaited transit study sets out the vision for the future of rail in the Houston region -- and it barely mentions transit.

The new University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chancellor is making architecture and urban design the top priority on campus.

Committing $1 billion to preserve open space will do just half the job to curb suburban sprawl in New Jersey.

The Globe offers an international perspective of the covert culture that has spawned urban sprawl terrorists.

Newsweek reviews President Bush's environmental decisions and speculates about what might lie ahead.

Findings suggest that planting more trees may not solve global warming problem.

Environmental groups around the world held events to raise public awareness on the 31st annual Earth Day.

In today's relocation market, the old axiom, "location, location, location, just isn't enough anymore.

President Bush approved a Clinton administration ban on snowmobile use in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.

Of the 40 nations at the high-level talks, all but the United States were in favor of the Kyoto climate change protocol.

The London Underground experiments with fragrances to improve the subway commute.

New Jersey's EcoComplex, an environmental research and technology development center, practices what it preaches.

New and affordable, yet powerful software is making it possible for citizens to offer alternative redistricting plans.

Preservationists in Buffalo, NY, have created a nonprofit organization to salvage historic fixtures from buildings about to be demolished.

The largest church in King County, WA, sparked the debate over rural growth limits.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation names its twelve picks for the 2001 list of most distinctive towns.

Fort Worth, Texas planners examine how to convert a train station to an upscale hotel.

"America's walking city" has a high rate of pedestrian fatalities.