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Mixed-use developments are changing how Americans live, work, and play, according a Business Week review of New Urbanism projects.

February 16 - Business Week

Connections to "disgraced" lobbyist Jack Abramoff are getting in the way of Richard W. Pombo's primary "political obsessions" -- the Endangered Species Act.

February 16 - The Los Angeles Times

Home Builders name energy efficiency as the industry's biggest trend for 2006.

February 16 - Greener Buildings

Swift snow removal is a "political necessity" in New York City. Latest technology comes to the rescue.

February 16 - The Los Angeles Times

The nation's older, inner-ring 'first suburbs' are often bypassed by policies that direct government assistance elsewhere, as discussed by Senator Hillary Clinton and Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution.

February 16 - CNN

Neither fully urban nor completely suburban, America's older, inner-ring, 'first' suburbs have a set of challenges very different from those of the center city and fast growing newer places, according to a new Brookings Institution report.

February 16 - The Brookings Institution

A new report shows that Boston's Big Dig has reduced commute times, improved access to Logan International Airport, and will continue to create thousands of jobs for the seven billion dollars worth of private investment expected to occur in its wake.

February 16 - The Boston Globe

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin has called for a sweeping update of the city's zoning ordinance in the face of the 'McMansionization' of some of the city's intown neighborhoods.

February 16 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

For the first time in decades Detroit has captured the largest increase in housing units for its seven county metro area, despite still large numbers of people leaving the city on an annual basis.

February 16 - The Detroit Free Press

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A few hours ago I got home from my first stint as a reviewer of student urban design proposals. That's right, kids: I went from consumer to teacher without ever having to be a producer. This afternoon I ducked out of work and went to the architecture and planning school at UC Berkeley to have a look, with some real professionals, at 18 class projects for a graduate-level landscape architecture class.<br /> <br /> Here's what happened: a few months ago I got a survey asking me how I felt about open space and parks in my neighborhood - West Berkeley, also known as Oceanview - and specifically how I felt about an alley that bisects my block and a couple blocks northward and southward.

February 16 - Anonymous

Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, comments on the Bush administration's plan to sell 300,000 acres of public land.

February 15 - Sierra Club

Wendell Cox charges that Ventura County, CA's plans to promote alternative transit strategies over expanding highways is a "fairy tale" that will result in additional pollution and more traffic.

February 15 - Ventura County Star

Residents of mobile home parks being bulldozed to make way for new homes and apartments find they have no place to go.

February 15 - The Los Angeles Times

When Morgans Hotel Group (OTC: MHGC) goes public, will investors find its stock as hot as its hotels?

February 15 - The Slatin Report

While Detroit is still obsessed with gas guzzlers, Japanese automakers are bringing out a new line of subcompact cars.

February 15 - The Los Angeles Times

Big business has learned that it's pretty easy being green.

February 15 - Reason Online

Despite a number of technology awards, only about half of the city's adults have internet access, and even fewer have broadband connections.

February 15 - Ohio Free Times

In Philadelphia, small non-profits can force payment from area businesses and owners through Business Improvement District regulations.

February 15 - Philadelphia City Paper

What event is 'a watershed in human history, comparable to the Neolithic or Industrial revolutions'?

February 15 - The Village Voice

New Maryland real estate developments are straining water-supply networks and could lead to chronic shortages and water-use restrictions.

February 15 - The Baltimore Sun