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London's Congestion Charge May Increase For Heavy Polluters
<p>A proposal has been made to increase the charge levied on highly polluting cars traveling into London's central congestion zone. The 8-pound fee could rise to 25 pounds for some drivers.</p>
The 25 Best Suburbs That Won't Break The Bank
<p>With suburban living getting more and more expensive, Business Week compiles a list of places where buying a single family house in a good neighborhood isn't a dream.</p>
New Policy To Address Mumbai's Severe Housing Crisis
<p>A new government policy aims to address the severe housing shortage in Mumbai, India, by promoting new construction and increasing foreign investment.</p>
A Citizens Guide to Subdivisions and Smart Growth
<p>A new guide helps citizens to identify the differences between good and bad subdivisions in Monanta.</p>
Saving Bucharest's 'Little Paris'
<p>The decision by local officials to demolish one of the oldest buildings in the city, which serves as a clinic, has brought civic groups together to protest the insensitivity towards the city's historic heritage.</p>
Encouraging New Mixed-Use Development Without Sacrificing Affordable Housing
<p>With Downtown Austin exploding with new mixed-use development, the redevelopment of a low-income apartment complex into a new mixed-use project has affordable-housing advocates worried that the city's supply of below-market-rate housing is vanishing.</p>
Nation's Capital Wants To Lead The Nation On Green Building
<p>A new proposal would make Washington D.C. the first major city in the country to require most large scale construction to follow green building standards.</p>
Building A Better Taxi Stand
<p>The current taxi system in New York is dysfunctional and needs a change. Here's one idea to change it through simple better street design.</p>
Altering Land Use For Healthier Food Access
<p>This article from <em>Smart Growth Online</em> looks at the increasing concentration of fast food restaurants in many cities and the resulting impact on public health, and also offers some advice to communities for using land use strategies to limit the i</p>
Carbon Tax Comes To The U.S.
<p>The City of Boulder, Colorado makes history by approving the nation's first carbon tax.</p>
When City Planners Oppose Elected Officials
<p>What happens when the professional planning staff advising an elected board disagrees with the conclusions of the elected board, and is required to submit a proposal that the planners opposed to a state regulatory agency for approval?</p>
Should Red-Light Districts Be Saved?
<p>In Baltimore, gentrification seems to be taking its toll on the red-light district known as "the Block."</p>
Study Casts Doubt On 'Healthy Forests' Initiative
<p>New studies by the Forest Service suggest that thinning forests as done under President Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative may worsen forest damage, not reduce it.</p>
Getting Humans Back Into Nature: A Dissertation
<p>A practicing planner and academic proposes as his Ph.D. dissertation an ecosystem approach to planning, and asks how we begin to place our cities back into their ecological context.</p>
Development Could Transform Palm Springs Landmark
<p>Critics oppose a major development including a resort, golf course, and housing, on the lower slopes of Palm Spring's Mt. San Jacinto.</p>
Florida Approves Constitutional Amendment Limiting Eminent Domain
<p>Sixty-nine percent of Florida's voters approved an amendment to the State's Constitution to limit government ability to take property for private development. How will this homeowner victory impact the revitalization efforts of cities?</p>
An Urban Village Copes With Too Much Success
<p>The appeal of Clarendon, Virginia, a homey neighborhood outside Washington, D.C., is threatening to wipe out its quirky character with a wave of upscale chain retailers, high-end restaurants, and luxury condominiums.</p>
Las Vegas Running Out Of Land
<p>With development encroaching on mountains, Indian lands, and protected species' habitats, projections are that the city will run out of room to grow.</p>
The Prevailing Wage Question
<p>Should the people who build low-income housing get a prevailing wage? Community developers say they can't afford to pay it, but can they really fight poverty if they don't?</p>
Infrastructure Can't Keep Pace Alberta's Oil Sands Development
<p>In an unprecedented move, the Province of Alberta's energy regulator has issued a warning that time is running out to put in place the infrastructure -- including roads, schools and health care -- needed to keep pace with oil sands development.</p>
Borough of Carlisle
Smith Gee Studio
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
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