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NEWS HEADLINES
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== NEW URBANISTS TURNED JACOBS' VISION INTO 'SUPERFICIAL FORMULA'
New Urbanists have damaged Jane Jacobs' legacy writes Nicolai
Ouroussoff.
May 01 2006 -- New York Times
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19540
== WHAT DO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS DO?
Why don't more people know about the profession of landscape
architecture?
May 01 2006 -- Reflector Online
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19545
== EVALUATING URBAN SPRAWL FROM SPACE
A team of researchers use satellite data to create a grid of 8.7
billion data cells tracking the evolution of land use in the
continental United States. The findings are surprising
May 03 2006 -- TerraDaily
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19669
== WHY 'PEAK OIL DOOMSTERS' ARE WRONG
Ronald Bailey believes free markets will address the world's oil
supply problem.
May 02 2006 -- Reason
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19544
== SAN FERNANDO VALLEY RESIDENTS RALLY AGAINST ADULT FILM INDUSTRY
Residents on a quiet San Fernando Valley cul-de-sac get some
unexpected visitors on Easter Sunday, raising questions about
permitting, production, and power under the law.
May 01 2006 -- Los Angeles Times
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19556
== HIGH GAS PRICES DRIVE UP COST OF HOUSING
Twin Cities residents are realizing that the seemingly affordable
homes bought far from the region's core are not quite as affordable
when transportation costs -- which have escalated as a result of
high gas prices -- are taken into account.
May 02 2006 -- Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19560
== A DEBATE ABOUT PEAK OIL
Amy Goodman hosts a debate between two energy experts on the
controversial theory of "peak oil."
May 01 2006 -- Democracy Now
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19543
== UNCLOGGING CALIFORNIA'S HIGHWAYS
Can California's legislators unclog the political logjam keeping
its highways mired in traffic?
May 01 2006 -- Riverside Press-Enterprise
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19549
== HOMELESS FIND GOOD DESIGN FOR $7 A NIGHT
How one non-profit design competition led to the creation of
temporary housing for the homeless using a simple formula: asking
future residents what they wanted.
May 02 2006 -- New York Times
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19557
== AMTRAK CAPITOL CORRIDOR WILDLY SUCCESFUL DESPITE UNION PACIFIC
WOES
Amtrak's Capitol Corridor, connecting the Bay Area to the state
capitol, Sacramento, is the third busiest Amtrak route in the
country. Yet it faces formidable obstacles -- because it runs on
Union Pacific tracks.
May 02 2006 -- San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19565
== THE NEW ADVERTISING: SATELLITE GRAFFITI
In an era of ever increasing satellite map imagery and tools like
Google Maps to view them, savvy advertisers are now creating
'ground ads' large enough to show up on satellite map images.
Think: crop circle advertising.
May 01 2006 -- eWeek
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19547
== UNDERSTANDING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Columnists Roger K. Lewis looks at the profession of landscape
architecture today.
May 02 2006 -- Planetizen
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19546
== FAITH IN REAL ESTATE: CHURCHES SELL DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS FOR
MILLIONS
Churches in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C, are selling
land and air development rights to provide major funding for
outreach programs.
May 02 2006 -- Washington Post
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19554
== A STRATEGY THAT WORKS TO REDUCE GASOLINE CONSUMPTION
Columnist John Tierney takes a bipartisan swipe at federal
responses to $3 gallon gasoline. He suggests a "revenue-neutral gas
tax" whereby the tax paid at the pump would be returned to the
taxpayers as "something that works".
May 03 2006 -- New York Times
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19612
== NEW URBANISM IS OLD BUSINESS IN INDIANA RIVER TOWN
Architectural styles, affordability, convenience, walkability, and
economic development are the foci of this "Main Street" event.
May 03 2006 -- Louisville Courier-Journal
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19584
== INMATES IN THE GARDEN: FEEDING PHILADELPHIA'S HUNGRY
An unlikely partnership between community gardeners and local
prison inmates will help feed the over one fifth of the city living
below the poverty line.
May 01 2006 -- Philadelphia City Paper
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19552
== CANADA THROWS OUT KYOTO, TURNS TO 'MADE IN CANADA' APPROACH
Canada's new Conservative government tabled its budget yesterday,
and with it reversed the previous government's commitment to the
Kyoto Protocol.
May 03 2006 -- Washington Post
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19667
== LANDLORDS GET TOUGH IN NEW YORK'S CONDO CONVERSIONS
Weakened rent stabilization laws help landlords evict market-rate
tenants. In Manhattan, more than 7,000 apartments are slated for
conversion.
May 03 2006 -- New York Times
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19583
== THE ELEPHANT IN THE GREEN ROOM
Grist interviews retiring Republican environmental leader Sherwood
Boehlert.
May 02 2006 -- Grist Magazine
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19536
== NATION'S ENERGY POLICY IS 'STUCK IN NEUTRAL'
Both political parties are to blame for the nation's energy crisis,
writes Ronald Brownstein.
May 02 2006 -- Los Angeles Times
http://www.planetizen.com/node/19550
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