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The Hydrogen-powered Hummer
Is the hydrogen-powered Hummer a vision of the future or contempt for environmentalism?
Natural Protection From Tsunamis
Mangrove forests -- coastal trees and shrubs -- saved hundreds by absorbing the impact of the tsunami.
Read My Lips: No New Subdivisions
Prince George's County officials put the brakes on unchecked residential growth.
Where Clean Power Is Cool
By running cars, buses, trucks, and ships on hydrogen, a country aims to be entirely oil-free by 2050.
Kunstler's 'The Long Emergency'
Grove/Atlantic publishers offers a summary of James Howard Kunstler's new book, "The Long Emergency", to be published in May, 2005.
Calgary's Conundrum
Will the East Village's innovative make-over hurt the city's poor?
The Impact Of Sprawl On Plants And Animals
Sprawl could spell extinction for nearly 1,200 species of plants and animals, according to a new report.
Study Links Drought Increase To Global Warming
Researchers say the Earth's drought areas have doubled since the 1970s and rising global temperatures are a major factor.
America's 50 Hottest Cities
Expansion Management Magazine will publish its list of the nation's 50 'hottest cities' in its January, 2005 issue.
Endangered By Sprawl
The rapid consumption of land in the nation’s fastest-growing large metropolitan areas could threaten the survival of nearly one out of every three imperiled species, according to the first study ever to quantify the impact of sprawling development on wil
More Landscape Architects Needed
ASLA reports an expected significant growth in demand for landscape architecture services.
'Transit Villages' Coming To Toronto's Suburbs
Four new "downtowns" key to bringing rapid transit to fast-growing York Region.
The Hybrid Frenzy
Lots more hybrids and hydrogen cars are in the pipeline as public recognizes environmental limitations.
What Is The OC?
A review of literature -– some scathing -– on the complexities of Orange County, California.
Sustainability Planning: First, Do No Harm
Sustainability planning may be precisely the wrong approach, argues Peter Gordon.
Congress Could Put More Local Food Into Schools
Bipartisan flavor works in program’s favor
How To Help?
Architects and planners are eager to help tsunami victims rebuild. But Western solutions are not always the best.
In Favor Of Affordable Housing; Just Not Here
A small neighborhood school, or housing where teachers and other helping professionals can afford to live? Hard choices in suburban D.C.
Wyoming's Two-edged Welfare Experiment
The state moves 90 percent off welfare, but many remain in poverty.
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Feral Cities
What happens in a city where the rule of law and public health fall apart, but capitalism and technology do not? It's a different kind of post-apocalyptic town -- Los Angeles without the Blade Runners, or maybe just present-day Johannesburg. <a href="http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2003/Autumn/art6-a03.htm">Here's</a> an article from the <em>Naval War College Review</em> from a couple years back that sketches the map of such a city. All the problems of a megacity and none of the fun, it sounds like.
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FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
