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Sierra Club Backs Ballot Box Planning Measure In Florida
<p>Responding to concerns over the state's rapid growth, the environmental group has pledged to support a proposed measure that would allow voters to decide questions regarding planning and growth.</p>
Creating A Chinatown Without Chinese
<p>With South Korea's historic apprehension towards China, efforts at resurrecting or creating new Chinatowns in Incheon and other cities have been so far been lacking one key ingredient -- Chinese residents.</p>
Selling Roads To The Highest Bidder Won't Solve Transportation Problems
<p>While leasing public roads to private companies for large cash payments might be attractive for some public officials, it doesn't help solve the larger issues facing the country's transportation system.</p>
New SRO Building Gets Starchitect Treatment
<p>Architect Helmut Jahn's design for a new single-room occupancy building on the edge of Chicago's former Cabrini Green project gets high marks, but some criticize the cost of using high-end architects for affordable housing.</p>
Seaside: 25 Years Later
<p>Slate magazine offers a photographic slideshow of the influential New Urbanist community of Seaside, Florida.</p>
HUD Releases Landmark Report On Homelessness
<p>A new HUD report estimates that there are three-quarters of a million homeless Americans.</p>
New Reseach Helps Define Transit Walking Shed
<p>A University of Oregon study, which was awarded Outstanding Paper at annual TRB conference, shows that people value speed and distance over security, and will walk up to 1/2 mile to transit.</p>
Community's Identity Questioned As Demographics Shift
<p>As housing prices decrease, demographics shift again in North Brentwood, Maryland, where a large Latin American population has moved into a primarily African American community.</p>
Little Planning And Few Government Services In Cairo
<p>In Cairo, many argue that the government provides few services and does little to better the lives of its 15 million people. The city's many informal communities were formed without any urban planning.</p>
Where Millionaires Live
<p>Fortune Magazine tracks the states (and homes) that the wealthiest Americans call home.</p>
State Legislator Trying To Overturn Austin 'McMansion' Ordinance
<p>A State legislature is proposing a bill that would essentially gut Austin's recently passed 'McMansion' ordinance.</p>
Ineffective Local Planning Efforts Push County To Seek Greater Control
<p>Sarasota County, Florida, is looking to gain greater control over planning from cities in an upcoming vote. This move is in response to a recent report that outlines how city planning in the county has encouraged sprawl over the last 50 years.</p>
Building Communities That Work For The Young And Old
<p>A new toolkit demonstrates how the challenges of the nation's aging population can help create sustainable communities that benefit everyone.</p>
Proposed Improvements To Boston's Pedestrian Shopping Center
<p>Plans have been proposed to expand downtown Boston's pedestrian-only shopping district with the hopes of improving the area's economic viability. Despite high pedestrian traffic, the shopping center has not been as successful as others in the city.</p>
A Sustainable Water Supply For Southern California
<p>As Southern California's population grows -- and taxes its famously scarce water supply -- the Inland Empire Utilities Agency is applying the tenets of smart growth to its efforts to recycle, reuse, and conserve water.</p>
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Diminutive Offerings from a Grocery Store Giant: Will They Fill the Grocery Store Gap?
<p class="MsoNormal">The impact of the urban grocery store gap, particularly on low-income communities, has been well documented. The presence of full-service grocery store can raise the economic value of surrounding property, serve as an anchor in commercial districts, provide an important source of jobs, and lower the daily cost of living for residents.<span> </span>In an era of skyrocketing obesity rates, public health research shows a strong correlation between the presence of a grocery store and the consumption of fruits and vegetables.<span> </span></p>
Best Cities For CleanTech Businesses
<p>The latest benchmark from SustainLane tracks which American cities are the best incubators for clean technology companies.</p>
Seattle Considers Trading Height Limits For Affordable Housing
The city's planning commission wants to use "incentive zoning" to encourage the development of taller buildings and generate revenue for the city's affordable housing fund.
Can McMansions And New Urbanism Co-Exist?
<p>Plans by the developers of Vermillion, a 400 acre New Urbanist community outside Charlotte, call for the addition of hundreds of 4,000 square foot homes to the original neighborhood of townhomes and small lot houses.</p>
An Urban Tale: NYC's East 93rd Street
<p>New York Times writer Chistopher Gray chronicles the history and recent renovation of New York City's 'brownstone Grand Canyon' on East 93rd street.</p>
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