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Detroit Wants Walkable Urbanity
<p>Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey interviews real estate guru Chris Leinberger on developing walkable urbanity in Detroit.</p>
Race, Poverty, And Uneven Development
<p>Policies and initiatives based on class and race are essential in altering the unequal patterns of opportunity in cities and suburbs.</p>
Putting The Humanity Back Into Habitats
<p>Grants, contributions, a collaboration with the Institute for Classical Architecture & Classical America, open minds, and tight budgets are helping Habitat for Humanity raise its design standards.</p>
Decaying Mansions May Fall To Supermarket
<p>Abandoned military mansions in Brooklyn are on the verge of being razed and replaced with a supermarket. Many historic preservationists are opposing the assertion that the late 19th Century mansions can't be salvaged.</p>
Housing Designed To Last From 'Cradle-To-Cradle'
<p>An international design competition based in Virginia has yielded the first 'cradle-to-cradle' housing, made of sustainable materials able to be used and reused with no loss of quality and limited environmental impact.</p>
Developer Plans To Sue City Over Eminent Domain
<p>Builders of a proposed multi-billion dollar redevelopment project in Riviera Beach, Florida are considering legal action against the state and city after being told that eminent domain will not be used to acquire properties for the project.</p>
Wal-Mart's Expansion Into China
<p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to buy a massive Chinese "hypermarket" for close to $1 billion, making Wal-Mart the largest food and department store network in China.</p>
A Dark Day For Affordable Housing
<p>For decades Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village has provided some of the most affordable housing in Manhattan. However, the completion of a $5.4 billion dollar real estate deal, the largest in American history, has residents worried about the future.</p>
Defining And Finding Exurbia
<p>A new study from the Brookings Institute attempts to locate and describe the exurbs of large metropolitan areas in the United States.</p>
Saving Asia's Past
<p>As Asia ascends, we can learn a lot from how they preserve their past and celebrate the historic urban form.</p>
Philadelphia Launches Riverfront Planning Process
<p>The city's mayor invites the University of Pennsylvania to work with City Planning Commission to facilitate public planning process for the Delaware River waterfront.</p>
Grid Locked
<p>Promised federal investments to upgrade America's electricity grid in the wake of the 2003 blackout have never materialized. As a result, the U.S. power grid "hangs by a thread."</p>
Reston Rests a Little Too Easily
<p>Philip Langdon recalls mixed-feelings about Reston's unfinished dream.</p>
Bicycling In Denmark
<p>Aaron Naparstek of Streetsblog visits Copenhagen and reports on that city's outstanding bicycling facilities.</p>
TOD Banks On Offices, Not Housing
<p>Developers for a new 35-acre mixed use TOD at the end of Denver's new light rail line are hoping to succeed with more office space than is typically used.</p>
Sold: 80 Acres for $5.4 Billion
<p>In the largest real estate deal in history, a joint venture between Tishman Speyer and BlackRock Inc.'s real-estate arm secured Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, two large apartment communities on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, for $5.4 billion.</p>
Dripping Through the Cracks?
<p>A senior biologist writes about using CEQA to asess marginal or unprotected wetlands and waters.</p>
Urban Planning, IDEO Style
<p>The California-based design company's "Smart Space" practice takes on the staid world of infrastructure, zoning and public process.</p>
How Best To Remember Jane Jacobs?
<p>Canadians have always been proud of the fact that Jane Jacobs called Toronto home. Why then, asks the Globe and Mail's Lisa Rochan, has the city of Toronto been strangely silent about how to keep her legacy alive?</p>
Healing Medical Districts
<p>Memphis and Miami may be leading the charge to rethinking medical districts with New Urbanism.</p>
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