History / Preservation
<p>Archaeologist Bill Kelso has given America new insight into 17th century Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the United States, which for many decades had been thought to be washed away by the James River.</p>
Style Weekly
<p>Officials in Nevada have made plans to pump water in from a remote and untouched location near the state's border with Utah. Ranchers and environmentalists in Utah are not too happy about it.</p>
Salt Lake City Weekly
<p>In a city known for the slogan "Keep Austin Weird," there rages a battle about historic preservation and gentrification, pitting neighbor against neighbor. Jeffrey Chusid shows us how one city tries to maintain its identity in the face of challenge.</p>
The Next American City
<p>Columbus, Ohio's New Village Place -- winner of the 2006 James B. Recchie Award for Urban Design -- seamlessly marries market-rate and affordable housing with striking designs that respect the historic character and fabric of the neighborhood.</p>
The Columbus Dispatch
<p>This opinion piece from the <em>Baltimore Sun</em> calls on the province to shift its planning priorities to include all of its residents, not just the humans.</p>
The Baltimore Sun
<p>Halting the environmentally destructive mountain-top removal of coal mining in Appalachia has long been a goal for environmentalists. Now members of the Mennonite and other Christian denominations have joined the movement.</p>
The New York Times
<p>Stakeholders in Arizona are battling it out this election over how to handle more than 9 million acres of state trust land.</p>
Tucson Weekly
<p>Is Mount Vernon the next action-adventure theme park?</p>
The Washington Post
<p>Voters are routinely taxing themselves to preserve land and quality of life - no matter their political persuasion.</p>
CNN
<p>An academic in Scotland is looking to add the post-war New Town of East Kilbride to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, an illustrious list of culturally important sites from all over the world.</p>
The Herald
<p>Citing a need to preserve historic charm, Boston is the first big city to weigh rules for dishes.</p>
The Christian Science Monitor
<p>The city is preserving its historic neighborhoods while adapting buildings for economically productive uses.</p>
Canoe.ca
<p>As post-war development reaches 50 years of age, preservationists and local officials in Arlington, Texas, grapple with the question of what to preserve.</p>
Governing
<p>Abandoned military mansions in Brooklyn are on the verge of being razed and replaced with a supermarket. Many historic preservationists are opposing the assertion that the late 19th Century mansions can't be salvaged.</p>
Preservation Online
<p>As Asia ascends, we can learn a lot from how they preserve their past and celebrate the historic urban form.</p>
The Next American City
<p>Canadians have always been proud of the fact that Jane Jacobs called Toronto home. Why then, asks the Globe and Mail's Lisa Rochan, has the city of Toronto been strangely silent about how to keep her legacy alive?</p>
The Globe and Mail
<p>A ballot measure restricting growth on ranchland and hillsides in Santa Clara County is the most polarizing of the six county and two city measures that affect open space, parks, developments and urban growth boundaries.</p>
The San Francisco Chronicle
<p>In a sweeping series of budget cuts, Canada's Conservative government has eliminated the only federal support available for municipalities wanting to preserve heritage buildings.</p>
The Globe and Mail
<p>A new transportation museum celebrating the streetcar has opened in San Francisco, fittingly opposite the ferry building where they once took commuters from the East and North Bay ferries down Market Street.</p>
The San Francisco Chronicle
Pasadena residents say new denser mixed-use development is threatening the character of the city.
The Los Angeles Times
