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<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//Las Vegas.jpg" alt="" width="300" align="right" border="0" hspace="2" vspace="2" />Another city experimenting with another wireless network: this time it's Las Vegas, and according to <a href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jan05/0105wvega.html">this</a> article in the always-educational <em>IEEE Spectrum</em> they're building not WiFi but a mesh network, and it's for municipal services, not bloggers drunk on the Strip. <br /> <br /> A mesh network, as almost everyone reading this will know better than I do, is nodeless -- that is, instead of having a hub that directs traffic to and from spokes, mesh networks treat every user as a place to route data.

January 24 - Anonymous

The problems faced by the D.C. area Metro could be solved by using a system that has been successful in major cities around the world.

January 24 - The Washington Post

A new collection of essays, 'The Resilient City' explores how cities bounce back after a catastrophe.

January 24 - Newsweek

An city dweller shares her experiences relocating to a farm.

January 24 - The Washington Post

In Canada, as gambling has quadrupled in the past decade, groups are now asking lawmakers to study the social costs.

January 24 - The Christian Science Monitor

Can Hans Monderman's apparently anarchical 'shared space' roadways result in safer communities?

January 23 - International Herald Tribune

'Pod thinking' results in planning that fails to look beyond the small community and encourages NIMBYism, BANANAs, and NIMTOOs.

January 23 - Los Angeles Downtown News

Readers talk back about the Christian-right take on environmentalism

January 23 - Grist Magazine

How both art and artists helped one city rebuild.

January 23 - The Next American City

D.C. suburbs experience another year of double digit increases in housing assessments.

January 23 - The Washington Post

A review of Worldwatch's State of the World 2005 edition.

January 22 - Joel Makower

A host of economic and political forces are leading to growing concern about the bursting of an "historically unprecedented credit bubble" that could lead to a collapse of the U.S. economy.

January 22 - TomDispatch

Forbes offers a roundup of the ten worst cars on the market, based on worst crash test scores, lowest reliability and lowest residual values.

January 22 - Forbes

A filmaker ends up with footage of 19 deaths by people jumping off what is regarded as the world's No. 1 suicide landmark.

January 22 - The Oakland Tribune

Hendrix College invites a pioneer of "New Urbanism" to participate in creating an updated master plan.

January 22 - CollegeNews.Org

Without the conventional rules and regulations of the road in place, drivers tend to slow down, open their eyes and develop a 'feel' for their surroundings.

January 21 - The Toronto Star

What happens when 23 architects are asked to collaborate on a single hotel in Madrid?

January 21 - The Guardian Unlimited

A new plan to revitalize Pittsburgh's long-ailing Fifth and Forbes corridor is anchored by space for hundreds of new housing units, de-emphasizing retail space.

January 21 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

An ambitious $4.1 billion tunnel project to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct is 'very, very impossible'.

January 21 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Palm Beach County's state legislative delegation served notice on January 19th that growth in western agricultural areas could be taken out of county control unless the County Commission approves a growth plan of its own.

January 21 - Palm Beach Post