United States
National Trust for Historic Preservation announces its 2003 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
National Trust For Historic Preservation
The Bush administration recently eliminated the exclusion against using federal funds for historic preservation of churches.
Wall St. Journal
The U.S. Conference of Mayors edorses the Bush administration's plan to end chronic homelessness in 10 years.
The New York Times
The University of Minnesota Mapserver is a open-source map server that offers a dramatically lower-cost alternative to to existing proprietary web-enabled geographic information systems.
GeoPlace
Home mortgage giant Freddie Mac fires its president and replaces two senior executives amid accounting review irregularities.
Reuters
Around the world, many of the world's cities are being reclaimed by pedestrians.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Some want the 'Paris of the East' restored; others want its future to reflect the horrors of war.
The Christian Science Monitor
Will technology solve our traffic problems? More traffic managers are experimenting with intelligent transportation systems.
Governing
Groundwater stores -- the source of water for nearly 2 billion people -- are quickly being depleted.
The Guardian Unlimited
A quiet but dramatic change is taking place in American society as the nation enters a post-ethnic era.
The Washington Post
Transit oriented development just as hard to develop in Massachusetts as any other type of development.
The Boston Globe
Amtrak will never overcome its deficit, but public support for a national long-distance train system means that Amtrak is here to stay.
San Jose Mercury News
A experiment in combining tourism, social activism, and housing, the Global Village and Discovery Center is a unique theme park.
The New York Times
A conference on 'Past Visions of America's Transportation Future' asks why forecasts are so often wrong.
Institute Of Transportation Studies
Amsterdam is futuristic, pragmatic, and fast becoming a top design destination.
The Globe and Mail
On the 25h anniversary of California's landmark Prop. 13, the debate over its impact continues.
National Public Radio
Parris Glendening, former governor of Maryland, and now a leading national Smart Growth advocate, warns about adverse impacts of urban sprawl.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Shenandoah National Park is threatened by pollution.
The Washington Post
The UN highlights the severity of the world's water crisis.
National Geographic
Ken Livingstone says that congestion pricing was the biggest gamble of his career -- and it paid off.
The Guardian Unlimited
