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Honolulu Transit Routes Debated
<p>In Oahu, lawmakers are having trouble agreeing on the best path for a proposed light rail line. The Honolulu mayor wants a different path than that approved by the city council. But it is not even certain if the proposed line will be rail or bus.</p>
High Cost Of Living Blamed For Slowing CA Growth
<p>The population growth rate has decline for the sixth year in a row in California, causing policymakers to voice concern over a future shortage in the state's educated workforce. High costs of living are blamed for the decline.</p>
World's Largest Wind Farm Project Approved
<p>U.K. government approves two offshore wind farm projects in the Thames Estuary.</p>
Brooklyn Stadium Project Controversy Continues
<p>The controversy surrounding a proposed $4 billion sports arena and residential project on 22 acres in Brooklyn provokes questions about the area's future that are national, as well as local.</p>
'Solar Trees' For Google's Parking Lot
<p>Google plans to turn barren parking into a source for clean energy.</p>
Boulder, Colorado's Big TOD Project Nears Approval
<p>Despite disagreements about the planned density, plans for a large-scale transit-oriented development is on the verge of being adopted in the city of Boulder, Colorado. A final approval is expected to come in early 2007.</p>
India's Forest Dwellers Gain Land Rights
<p>The Parliament in India has passed bill granting more than 27 million forest dwellers legal rights to their ancestral lands. Before the bill's passage, the forest dwellers were defenseless as logging and mining interests moved in.</p>
A Sharp Population Decline Predicted For Japan
<p>A new report has been released in Japan that projects a sharp drop in the country's population over the next 50 years. The report predicts that a declining birth rate will cause a decrease of more than 30% by 2055.</p>
New York City Rail Projects Win Huge Federal Funding Awards
<p>The LIRR connection to Grand Central has been awarded the largest Federal funding allotment ever committed to mass transit. The new Second Ave. Subway was also awarded substantial funds from the U.S. Dept of Transportation.</p>
Beijing To Introduce Free Park'n'Ride Lots
<p>To encourage more motorists to take advantage of public transit, the city is planning to build free parking lots near new transit stations.</p>
Toronto Receives Award From APA
<p>The American Planning Association has recognized the Ontario "Places to Grow" initiative with a 2007 Daniel Burnham award, the first time the honor has gone to a Canadian region.</p>
Taking Workforce Housing Seriously
<p>The wide range of housing prices in a Milwaukee suburb -- offering affordability for all -- is no accident.</p>
Another Day At The Office
<p>In London, a housing crunch is creating a new trend of converting old office spaces into housing. The majority of the city's new housing developments are actually old office spaces.</p>
Boston To Require Green Building Standards
<p>Boston is set to become the first city in the nation to impose a strict set of green building standards on all new development in the city. The requirements will take effect in January and affect buildings 50,000 square feet and larger.</p>
'Architectural Wonders' of 2006
<p>Sustainable design was the trend of the year for 2006, according to Businessweek.</p>
Urbanism As A Way Of Death?
<p>Economist Jeremy Rifkin warns that unchecked urbanization is fueling unsustainable resource consumption and the destruction of the natural world.</p>
The School Of Environmental Sustainability
<p>As universities across the country are renovating their campuses and buildings to be more environmentally sustainable, one university is taking the subject into the classroom as its School of Sustainability opens next month.</p>
Smart Growth Success In Metro D.C.
<p>Arlington, Virginia, and Silver Spring, Maryland, are two cities in the rapidly growing Washington D.C. metro area that are bucking the trend of handling growth by sprawl and moving towards Smart Growth policies.</p>
$250 Million In Reduced Property Values Claimed In Portland
<p>Claims worth more than $250 million have been filed in Portland, Oregon, where a law passed in 2004 allows property owners to file for compensation from the city when regulations reduce the value of their property.</p>
Fighting Against Light Pollution
<p>A profile of one woman's crusade to get cities to crack down on excess light in cities and bring back dark-skies.</p>
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
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