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Chief planner focuses on land-use plan as first step in revitilizing the Anacostia River

January 4 - The Washington Post

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Because I can: here's another Wired story I can flack. Writer David Goldenberg collects half a dozen examples of supercool, high-tech <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bridge.html">bridges</a> in the latest issue. When Chris or Abhijeet teach me how to upload pics with our new software, I'll put a couple here. Meanwhile, the story's online. Salient bits:<br /> <br /> <blockquote>Today, an explosion of new designs and materials is creating a third golden age of bridge building. Cable-stays transfer the load on the roadway to towers via radiating wires. Electromagnetic dampers and giant underwater shock absorbers resist the kinetic energy of wind, quakes, and collisions. Sensors - fiber-optic cables, digital cameras, and accelerometers - let engineers know how bridges are holding up in real time. And higher-performing steel, concrete, and carbon fiber-reinforced polymers are making spans lighter, stronger, longer, and taller.</blockquote>

January 3 - Anonymous

The 41-story Singer Building, an elegant Beaux-Arts tower, was the tallest in the world when it was completed in 1908. Why was it demolished in 1967?

January 3 - The New York Times

New Jersey approves a study of personal rapid transit for Long Branch, a shore town just south of NYC. The New York Press calls it an 'epic boondoggle'.

January 3 - New York Press

Plans for downtown Riverside hope to create a "cultural hot spot" that will draw from Inland Southern California's growing population.

January 3 - The Los Angeles Times

There are sound economic models for privately financed teams and venues, so why does government insist on subsizing stadiums?

January 3 - The Baltimore Sun

According to a state study, new inter-county highway in Maryland planned to reduce congestion would increase traffic instead.

January 3 - The Baltimore Sun

Philadelphia Mayor Street's multimillion-dollar effort to reduce blight in city neighborhoods appears to be working.

January 3 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Poorly planned development has made India's coastlines vulnerable.

January 3 - Channel News Asia

The P-I looks back on the major decisions from 2004 that will shape Seattle's land use for years to come.

January 3 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Dan Burden is changing the way towns think about traffic.

January 3 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Ornithologists are shocked by the design of New York's Freedom Tower, which will stand directly in the migratory path of birds.

January 3 - The Daily Telegraph

Market-priced curb parking can yield between 5% and 8% of the total land rent in a city, according to a journal article by Donald C. Shoup.

January 2 - Journal Of Regional Science

Metro struggles to remain financially solvent and maintain service.

January 2 - The Washington Post

Author Michael Crichton's popular new novel scoffs at warnings about global warming. National Review Online reviews the book.

January 2 - Competitive Enterprise Institute

Can coffee incentives cause worldwide environmental change?

January 2 - World Development Journal

New rail stations to open in 2007 will offer residents of towns north of Salt Lake City new economic options.

January 2 - Deseret News

Should relief agencies depend on state or free-market solutions to solve water shortages?

January 1 - The Los Angeles Times

The Great Lakes ecosystem is in chaos. The solution, say policymakers and scientists: ban all oceangoing cargo ships.

January 1 - The Detroit Free Press

Volvo's new, BRT-friendly, bi-articulated, 26.8-meter bus with room for 300 passengers.

January 1 - Caltech News