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New York: The New American Teardown Capital
<p>Surpassing metropolitan Chicago, metro New York now hosts the highest amount of teardowns in the country.</p>
Long Beach's YouTube Videos Persuade Residents to Conserve Water
<p>The city of Long Beach, California has initiated a water conservation campaign, including YouTube videos. As a result, residential water use rates have hit record lows.</p>
Experts Weigh In On Urbanization
<p>The <em>Freakonomics</em> blog at <em>The New York Times</em> recently put together a panel of experts and asked them to outline the implications of our increasingly urban world.</p>
The Myth Of Resource Sustainability
<p>John Brätland, senior economist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, offers his observations on how economists have let the myth of resource exhaustion persist from the nineteenth century to the present, and why it is misguided.</p>
Do Starchitects' Egos Get in the Way of Good Design?
<p>One critic claims that "starchitects" are more interested in flash than function. He recommends these architects work with mainstream developers to have a more positive impact on average people.</p>
Anaheim Plans To Remake Its Sports District Into Highrise Urban Village
<p>Anaheim (Orange County, CA) has big plans: 20,000 urban infill homes planned for their sports district. While the zoning change passed the council on a 4-1 vote, developers will wait for the housing market to recover.</p>
The Determining Factor of Walkable Places
<p>Almost all of the towns with high percentages of walking commuters are centered around an institution, like a university or military academy, where many are housed very close to their classes or jobs.</p>
Architecture And The City: A Changing Relationship
<p>On the 10th anniversary of Getty Center art museum in Los Angeles, architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne examines how architecture and its relationship with the city have changed over the past decade.</p>
Pennsylvania Toll Road Plan Hits Wall
<p>Plans to convert a 311-mile section of Pennsylvania's Interstate 80 have been dealt a severe setback by the federal government, which recently returned the state's application.</p>
A Deadly Catch
<p>China is the world's fish capital, but extreme pollution has made much of its fishing waters and catches toxic.</p>
Transit Fares Rise In D.C.
<p>Transit fares were recently increased for the Washington D.C. Metro transit system. The fare hike is the largest increase in the agency's history.</p>
Land of the Living, Dead
<p><em>Vice Magazine</em> presents this photo essay on a cemetery in Manila that is heavily populated with both the living and the dead. More than 10,000 families make this graveyard their home.</p>
Transit Agency Needs To Keep Its Focus On Transit
<p>This editorial from the <em>Rocky Mountain News</em> expresses the concerns of many in Denver who worry that the region's transportation district is focusing too much on redevelopment.</p>
Slowing The Development Process In New York
<p>Daniel Doctoroff, deputy mayor for economic development and rebuilding in New York, discusses the changing (and more deliberate) way the city now goes about pursuing development projects.</p>
Workplace Childcare Edges Into Canada
<p>Integrating childcare facilities with the workplace is experiencing a slow but steady start in Canada, where some activists are trying to convince employers of the real economic benefits of bringing the kids to work.</p>
Inclusionary Housing Bill Gets Approval In Philadelphia
<p>The Philadelphia city council has approved an inclusionary housing bill requiring developers to include a certain percentage of affordable housing in all projects of 20 units or more.</p>
San Francisco Commuters Cozy Up To Double-Decker Buses
<p>Recent test runs of double decker buses as part of San Francisco's Muni system have been well-received by riders, and many expect them to be fully adopted into the system in 2008.</p>
Abu Dhabi's Green Future
<p>Despite its plentiful oil reserves, the Arabian emirate of Abu Dhabi is planning and developing some green cities that will be able to operate without the power of oil.</p>
Transportation Budget Is Billions Short In Oregon
<p>Oregon's state transportation budget is falling short of the projected demand by billions of dollars. A committee of local politicians is laying blame at the state and federal levels.</p>
Caltrans
City of Fort Worth
Mpact (founded as Rail~Volution)
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
City of Portland
City of Laramie
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