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Acres Of Common Ground

Michigan's diverse Smart Growth council members have much to share.

March 21 - Michigan Land Use Institute

The Latest Options In High-Speed Freeway Design

Engineers explore how to best redesign Southern California's freeway equivalent of the Mississippi River.

March 21 - The Los Angeles Times

Largest Ecological Project In History?

The Green Great Wall plan proposes the planting 9 million acres of forest at a cost of up to $8 billion to halt desertification. Will it work?

March 21 - Wired

The Worst Stretch Of Sprawl In The U.S.

How do officials fight sprawl in a place that has the dubious distinction of being the worst strip of sprawl in America.

March 21 - USA Today

A Major Victory For Environmentalists

Republicans joined Democrats in the U.S. Senate to quash the Bush administration's plans to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

March 21 - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer


Sustainable Development Could Still Be Puerto Rico's Salvation

Facing challenges of depleting resources and population growth, a call is made for Authorities in Puerto Rico to implement the sustainable development vision that is stated in its public policy.

March 20 - El Nuevo Día

Bay Area To Add 2 Million People By 2030

Estimates by The Association of Bay Area Governments predict that the region will add 2 million more people by 2030.

March 20 - Contra Costa Times-Walnut Creek


Baghdad And A New Paradigm For Urbanity

Bagdad is where the first city in history, the city of Ur, was built roughly 4 thousand years ago.

March 20 - KCRW

Senate Rejects Alaska Wildlife Refuge Drilling Proposal

The Bush administration's proposal to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been rejected by the U.S. Senate.

March 20 - The Washington Post

New Markets Tax Credits Awarded

Sixty-six organizations in 40 states have been awarded New Markets Tax Credits by the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions.

March 20 - Business Wire

Subterranean Sprawl: Cities Expand Underground

Breakthrough technologies used in projects such as Boston's Big Dig will help cities expand underground. Montreal, Toronto, and Kansas City have already started.

March 20 - Wired

No Oil Drilling In Arctic Refuge

The Senate has rejected Bush's bid to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, despite Despite argument that the drilling is critical to national security.

March 20 - The Los Angeles Times

Boston's Indicators Project Is A Breakthrough

Neal Peirce reviews Boston's Indicators Project which provides high quality data and information about Boston.

March 20 - Citistates Group

Keeping Buildings Safe

Building owners and architects are coming up with innovative strategies to protect commercial buildings.

March 20 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Civilian GPS Accuracy Could Be Degraded

The accuracy of the Global Positioning System for civilian uses may be intentionally degraded during wartime.

March 20 - Space Daily

ASLA Awards: Call For Entries

The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced a Call For Entries for its 2003 Awards in design, analysis and planning, research, and communications.

March 19 - Lawn And Landscape

Surveillance Nation

Say goodbye to unmonitored public spaces. The average person is filmed by more than 300 cameras each day.

March 19 - Technology Review

Digitally Recreating Ancient Buried Structures

A team from the University of Cincinnati is digitally recreating seventeen centuries old geometric structures.

March 19 - Wired

Edgeless Cities

A new book probes America's newest metropolitan form by examining the growth and spatial structure of office development in 13 large U.S. markets.

March 19 - The Brookings Institution

Living Longer In Green Valley

Residents of sunny Green Valley are living longer...and facing hard times.

March 19 - The New York Times

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