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Sprawl and inadequate public transit options cause transportation costs to exceed housing costs in six U.S. cities.

On the surface, e-commerce seems to be an environmental benefit. But on closer inspection, there are many unseen costs.

Oregon voters approved Measure 7 which threatens the state's green regulations and local zoning.

According to a report by the American Planning Association, people in New Jersey, the nation's most developed state, may have heard the "wake-up call" on urban sprawl.

What does it take to create sprawl?

A report from the World Resources Institutewarns that the world's freshwater systems are sothreatened that they may have difficulty sustaining life, withincreasing water shortages for human use and the extinction of a varietyof freshwater species.

A harbinger of 21st century America: dozens of post-Second World War suburbs that never had a Main Street are building new ones from scratch.