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To ensure its longevity, developers of London's Olympic Park have made integration of its facilities into a larger urban renewal plan a priority.

June 24 - WSJ.com

The changing face of America's energy menu includes a variety of alternative sources, many of which are being developed in the country's rural areas.

June 24 - The Daily Yonder

A visual city data mapping tool called CityTracking is one of the winners of this year's Knight News Challenge, a journalism competition that seeks out innovative communication ideas for the changing news media.

June 24 - Knight Foundation

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June 23 - Melissa Hege

According to the new book, <em>Foreclosing the Dream: How America's Housing Crisis Is Reshaping Our Cities and Suburbs,</em> development is shifting to cities more strongly than most Americans realize.

June 23 - New Urban News

Half million dollar beach houses are going unsold and rapidly losing value as the oil slick -- and fears -- spread.

June 23 - The Globe and Mail

The "Bilbao Effect" is the apotheosis of the notion that a struggling post industrial city can be regenerated through set-piece art and design. But Frank Gehry, the architect of the Guggenheim, suspects the gallery was only part of a larger gestalt.

June 23 - Financial Times

Alison Arieff talks with Jason Roberts Go Oak Cliff, a neighborhood advocacy group in Austin, Texas, about his techniques for advocating for better neighborhoods.

June 23 - GOOD Magazine

Peruvians are painting mountains in the Andes white to try to slow down the melting of glaciers.

June 23 - BBC

Municipal debt is on the rise, as state and local borrowing has grown to nearly one-quarter of the U.S. GDP.

June 23 - The Wall Street Journal

<em>Smart Planet</em> talks with transportation researcher Reid Ewing about a new study he co-authored about how different development patterns can reduce auto use.

June 23 - Smart Planet

A new report from the Urban Land Institute finds that California's VMT-focused Senate Bill 375 can potentially reverse the state's sprawl. Transit-oriented development is seen as a strong strategy.

June 23 - The City Fix

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<div> <div> <p> Just because our media-ravenous culture inundates us with more news than we can stomach doesn&#39;t mean we should give up on the long term prospects of the BP catastrophe.  As the poorly secured well beneath the exploded BP rig <em>Deepwater Horizon</em> continues its high-pressure torrent of not-yet-quantified-but-something-in-the-order-of-tens-to-hundreds-of-thousand-of-gallons-per-day of oil into the gorgeous waters of the Gulf of Mexico, we must not let the drone of time allow us lose sight of the result of horrendous and unforgivable destruction, weak industrial controls, and even weaker environmental morals.  We must also not ignore that efforts to “contain” the spill were devised simultaneously with an effort to spare the well. </p>

June 23 - Ian Sacs

Mortgage debt is crippling the housing market all over the country, and the homeowners who've taken on more debt than they can afford. Now, real estate interests and banking interests are battling over legislation intended to ease the pain.

June 23 - The New York Times

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<p style="text-indent: 0.25in; line-height: 200%" class="ecxMsoNormal"> <span>As I began to type this, I was on a Greyhound bus somewhere in southern Ontario, on the first leg of my return from Toronto (where I have spent the past year getting an extra degree) to the United States. <span> </span>As I type, it occurs to me to ask myself: what are the interests of the long-distance bus rider?<span>  </span>Are they the same as users of other forms of public transit, or closer to those of drivers and truckers?<span>  </span>My short answer to these questions is: a little of both.</span> </p>

June 22 - Michael Lewyn

Cities in California's Central Valley are looking at the economic downturn as an opportunity for planners to focus on long-range work. But layoffs in planning departments are making that hard to do.

June 22 - The Modesto Bee

The new Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York is opening bit by bit. <em>Places</em> talks with Matthew Urbanski, one of the principal designers behind the park about its design and impact.

June 22 - Places

A pilot bike-sharing program will debut this summer in downtown Chicago.

June 22 - Chicago Now

<em>Worldchanging</em> takes a look at a new report that plots out a plan to create a carbon-neutral United Kingdom by 2030.

June 22 - WorldChanging

A new plan up for approval today in Fairfax County, Virginia to turn the suburban office park of Tysons Corner into an urban village is a good idea gone bad, according to the chairman of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce.

June 22 - The Washington Post