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The viability of a community is linked to its access and use of information and communications technologies. How are communities planning for technology?

July 6 - Planning Magazine

Joel Kotkin traces a shift in the role of cities.

July 6 - Joel Kotkin

A dispute among residents, environmentalists town officials leads to an exodus from the posh Georgica Pond region of East Hampton.

July 6 - Wall St. Journal

Small NC town changes zoning ordinance to accomodate Walmart.

July 6 - Winston-Salem Journal

Aging stadiums in Houston and Los Angeles have been reborn as megachurches. Is this the next commercial real estate boom?

July 6 - The Los Angeles Times

Deterioration of the West Coast's most travelled highway -- Interstate 5 -- could lead to disaster.

July 5 - The Los Angeles Times

While Thailand's Traffic Office plans to charge drivers for using center-city roads, high-speed railways will shuttle commuters around the city of 10 million.

July 5 - The Straits Times

The Northern Calfornia city of Rancho Cordova plans to build mini downtowns around each of its light rail stations.

July 5 - The Sacramento Bee

Cleveland's neighborhoods have been revitalized, and along with the now-sparkling Erie lake, it is becoming a tourist destination.

July 5 - CNN

A new Associated Press poll finds that while two-thirds altered their routes or allowed more time for a commute, only one in twenty took mass transit.

July 5 - The State

Urban Atlanta would be transformed if the innovative transit currently being planned was actually built.

July 4 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Technology and telecommuting are fueling the new migration from urban areas to rural areas.

July 4 - American Planning Association

NY Gov. George Pataki uses the Freedom Tower to advance his campaign, despite major uncertainties.

July 4 - Slate

A poll shows that a majority of Americans would pay higher taxes if it would improve roads and public transit.

July 4 - The Salt Lake Tribune

Ignoring his own department's numbers, Bloomberg gave the green light to the wildly-disliked Van Cortland Park plan. Neighborhood officials see the deal as political cronyism.

July 4 - New York Daily News

Real estate developers transform cities -- sometimes in ways we applaud, and other times in ways that make us cringe.

July 4 - Smart City

Will the IRS focus on land gifts have a chilling impact on donations to environmental groups?

July 3 - The Washington Post

New Department of Transportation data shows that poor road work can lead to hundreds of dollars in extra vehicle costs.

July 3 - The Detroit News

Major League Baseball is coming to one of six North American cities, and each proposal reflects a different aspect of both urban and suburban communities' constant push for prominence.

July 3 - Yahoo! Newswire

A remarkable reconstruction effort is underway in Dresden, Germany, a city destroyed during the Second World War.

July 3 - INTBAU