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Updating New York's Bicycle Network
<p>Plans to expand the bicycle network in New York City are underway as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's long-term plan to make the city more environmentally friendly. But proposals to increase the city's bike lanes are meeting opposition from locals.</p>
Environmental Protection Through Cap-And-Trade
<p>As carbon trading systems gain notoriety as successful methods of protecting those natural resources that are good at sequestering the harmful emission, some see a bright future for similar cap-and-trade systems to preserve nature for its benefits.</p>
Poor Benefitting From 'Poverty Tours'
<p>In the squatter settlements in South African slums, a burgeoning new industry is developing around so-called "poverty tours", where Western tourists are taken off the beaten tour path to see what life is like in impoverished squatter communities.</p>
Water Shortages Alter Growth Patterns In Las Vegas
<p>Low water supplies are forcing changes to the growth patterns of booming Las Vegas, Nevada.</p>
California Publishes New Hazard Mitigation Draft Plan
<p>The California Hazard Mitigation Plan (SHMP) is the state's plan for reshaping and strengthening the built environment to significantly reduce disaster losses created by natural and human-caused hazards.</p>
The Line Between Fighting Gentrification And Plain-Old NIMBY
<p>When does an 'anti-gentrification group' cross the line to simply stopping progress in a community? That charge has been leveled against San Francisco's Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition after the city's environmental review process was expanded.</p>
An Introduction To Green Roofs
<p>This article from <em> Ecogeek</em> offers an introduction to green roofs, and shares pictures of some existing green roofs and some ambitious projects in the works.</p>
Sign, Sign, Nowhere a Sign
<p>Sao Paulo Brazil has implemented a ban on outdoor advertising, calling it "visual pollution."</p>
Biking In Portland Isn't Just For Enthusiasts Anymore
<p>The fact that many people in Portland, Oregon ride bikes is no surprise. And while many of those bikers are typically more serious bike enthusiast, the city is seeing an unexpected shift that has more and more "regular Joes and Janes" biking as well.</p>
Conscious Cities Preserve Natural Capital
<p>A new report examining thoughtful urban land stewardship around the world finds that preserving natural capital yields big dividends for cities.</p>
Brazilian "Sustainable Development Settlements" Ravage the Amazon
<p>Greenpeace is claiming that a Brazilian scheme to settle tens of thousands of families has become little more than a "scam" to sell off logging rights in the Amazon.</p>
Seattle Struggles To Fund Sidewalks
<p>More than 650 miles of Seattle streets have no sidewalks, and residents are demanding them. But with limited transportation funding, the city is struggling to find ways to pay for sidewalk construction.</p>
New Plan, New Growth Pattern
<p>The City of Sacramento is looking to change its growth pattern as it prepares a new version of its general plan.</p>
D.C.'s Waterfront Revival
<p>With more than $2 billion worth of redevelopment projects underway, Washington D.C.'s riverfront areas are in the midst of a waterfront renaissance.</p>
Short-Sighted Plans Highlight Lack Of Vision In Melbourne
<p>Plans to extend Melbourne, Australia's already-extensive freeway system are short-sighted and illustrate the lack of true planning vision in the city, according to this column from <em>The Age</em>.</p>
Adressing Parks Shortage Crucial To Future Of L.A.
<p>Los Angeles is one of the most parks-deficient cities on the West coast. How planners address this shortage will shape the future of the city, writes Christopher Hawthorne.</p>
Drive-In Utopia
<p>Drive-in movie theaters are satisfying a need for public spaces that also allow some privacy.</p>
A City For The Feet
<p>This article from <em>The New York Times</em> discusses the history of the city's famed walkability, and talks to some of the people who take New York City walking to the extreme.</p>
The Case Against Nuclear Power
<p>The pending Senate Energy Bill will support a "new generation" nuclear power plants. But they will be no different from the last generation, which have been a "lethal failure" according to Harvey Wasserman.</p>
Is Transportation Infrastructure The Basis Of A North American Union?
<p>Plans to construct a trans-Texas highway corridor have theorists speculating that this transportation infrastructure is the first step in a secret plan to create a North American union between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.</p>
Municipality of Princeton
Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission
City of Mt Shasta
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
US High Speed Rail Association
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
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