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<p>All new homes in Montgomery County, Maryland, will be required to comply with environmental and energy-efficiency standards.</p>

April 24 - The Washington Post

<p>Homes farther out from the central city and with longer commutes are being hit harder by the downturn in the housing market. Those located close to city cores and transit are faring better, according to this report from <em>NPR</em>.</p>

April 24 - NPR

<p>Though more than a hundred years newer, the city of San Francisco has a lot to teach cities like Charleston about preserving their less-than-iconic historic areas.</p>

April 24 - The Post and Courier

<p>Tacoma, Washington, could become a walkable city, according to Danish architect Lars Genzoe.</p>

April 24 - The News Tribune

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<div> <br /> I once was consigned to a table full of business school students at a land-use conference at UCLA. Trying to be a good sport, I offered the only idea that I&#39;d ever had about business: car insurance charged according to miles driven. I posited that since risk and mileage were more or less correlated, it only made sense that people who drove more and incurred more risk should pay more. <span><img src="/files/u1299/Karl_Marx.jpg" width="120" height="130" align="right" /></span><br /> <br /> My tablemates stared back at me as if I had just issued a rousing recitation of <em>Das Kapital</em>. <br />

April 23 - Josh Stephens

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Both supporters and opponents of the sprawl status quo often refer to suburbia as “The American Dream.” One sprawl-defending organization even calls itself “The American Dream Coalition.”

April 23 - Michael Lewyn

<p>From construction to infrastructure to social marketing, the Dockside Green condominiums in Victoria B.C. is becoming recognized as the greenest in Canada.</p>

April 23 - The Globe & Mail

<p>As airlines go bankrupt and gasoline prices climb upwards, James Howard Kunstler wonders why passenger rail continues to fall off the political radar.</p>

April 23 - James Howard Kunstler's Blog

<p>One out of five homes in central Jerusalem is owned by someone living abroad, and sit empty for most of the year. With housing prices soaring, a group of students wants to try and make use of the underused apartments.</p>

April 23 - Marketplace

<p>With a volcano, an Egyptian pyramid and the Eiffel Tower already under its belt, Las Vegas is trying its hand at building something else from scratch: a downtown.</p>

April 23 - The New York Times

<p>The dam project is being proposed on the Congo river, and could produce more than twice the amount of energy generated by China's Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest. If approved the dam could be operating by 2022.</p>

April 23 - The Guardian

<p>A 17-story condominium tower in Boise, Idaho is being built on a 32-foot-wide footprint. Workers talk about the challenges of constructing such a skinny building.</p>

April 23 - The Idaho Statesman

<p>Officials in Oklahoma is hoping to woo the Seattle Supersonics to relocate in Oklahoma City by offering tax incentives. One politician is hoping to advance plans for a light rail transit system by planting the idea with team officials.</p>

April 23 - The Norman Transcript

<p>City Hall in Windsor and the provincial government of Ontario are following the wrong path to revitalization, argue the creators of an influential website called Scaledown Windsor, who think Canada's 'motor city' needs to be reinvented.</p>

April 23 - The Globe and Mail

<p>Congestion pricing is really just a regressive tax thats hurt the poor, argues one New York Assemblyman. If government wants to improve transit and the environment, it should simply tax wealthy Americans more to do it.</p>

April 23 - The New York Times

<p>From mile-high skyscrapers and floating cities, a look back at some of of the impractical and unrealized dreams of architects and planners.</p>

April 23 - Wired Magazine

<p>A few eco-conscious -- and business savvy -- suburbanites are ripping up their lawns and growing vegetables to cater to the increasing demand for local produce.</p>

April 22 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>Motorists in Oregon, Washington and Idaho are using less gas per week than the average American. A recent report credits the region's public transit systems and land use policies for the reduction in fuel consumption.</p>

April 22 - The Oregonian

<p>With the nation's infrastructure in dire need of investment, a debate over the need to raise the federal gas tax is brewing in Washington, D.C.</p>

April 22 - CNN Money

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<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Since its launch, one of the three primary goals of Vancouver&#39;s <strong><a href="http://www.vancouver-ecodensity.ca/">EcoDensity Initiative</a> </strong>has been to use density, design and land use to strategically assist with the City&#39;s growing challenges around affordability. Over the course of the long public dialogue, we&#39;ve heard many comments and questions on the relationships between density, supply, type of housing and affordability, and it’s been a very hot topic. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"> </span> </p>

April 22 - Brent Toderian