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Environmentalists and coastal management experts are calling attention to the negative impacts of urban growth and polluted runoff in coastal areas.

October 6 - The Los Angeles Times

Environmentalists are working to prevent further damage to the area affected by the oil leak, which was a result of a bullet.

October 6 - The Houston Chronicle

University of Kentucky study examines how it costs residents of a county if new residents move in.

October 5 - Kentucky Post

when New York's World Trade Center towers collapsed, a siesmic station recorded earthquakes of magnitude 2.1 and 2.3. This analysis examines how gravity contributed to the collapse of the towers.

October 5 - MSNBC

Remembering the World Trade Center towers, their place in the Manhattan skyline, and what they meant to New Yorkers.

October 5 - Newsweek

An Appeals rules that Tampa's anti-adult business zoning ordinance does not apply to Internet-based businesses.

October 5 - The New York Times

Writer David Carr is relentlessly critical of the Amtrak's new Acela train, theoretically capable of 150 mph.

October 5 - The Washington Monthly

Herbert Muschamp reviews examples of progressive architecture in New York.

October 5 - The New York Times

Part of PBS's "American Experience" series, "New York: A Documentary Film" traces the history of New York City.

October 5 - The Washington Post

The impact Of the Earned Income Tax Credit In U.S. metropolitan areas.

October 5 - The Brookings Institution

How will the events of September 11 affect the national conversation about how and where we should grow?

October 5 - New Colonist

The Pew Oceans Commission is expected to report that sprawl and waste runoff are threatening the nation's East and West coasts.

October 5 - The Sacramento Bee

In a letter to the editor, a Washington Post reader says the World Trade Center towers did not have to comply with New York City building codes as they were part of a state agency-sponsored project.

October 4 - The Washington Post

In Long Island, NY, the demand for high-end million-dollar homes continues in a slowing economy.

October 4 - The New York Times

The Bus Rapid Transit systems generally had lower capital costs per milethan the Light Rail systems in the cities reviewed.

October 4 - U.S. General Accounting Office

How resistent are cities? Can a city's economy survive a severe blow such as the September 11th attacks on New York?

October 4 - The New York Times

If sustainable design is to survive, it needs media coverage, star architects, and a few early successes.

October 4 - MetropolisMag.com

Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff rejected suggestions that they pay reparations for their mistakes on the project.

October 4 - The Boston Globe

American Institute of Architects plans to ask architects to alert the F.B.I of any suspicious requests for building plans.

October 4 - The New York Times

Despite the terrorist attacks in the U.S., Shanghai's financial center still shows interest in building the world's tallest building.

October 4 - People's Daily