United States

This annual report sizes up the accomplishments and failures in the pursuit of a sustainable world economy.

January 10, 2003 - Worldwatch Institute

An Op-Ed by Bruce Katz in the Baltimore Sun calls on Congress to provide states and cities necessary fiscal relief and to reverse its drift toward unfunded mandates and programmatic inflexibility.

January 10, 2003 - The Brookings Institution

Controversial television campaign links gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to international terrorism.

January 9, 2003 - CBS News

Jeremy Rifkin writes that the "hydrogen economy" is within our grasp if we are committed to abandoning fossil fuels.

January 9, 2003 - E-The Environmental Magazine

Celebrity architect Rem Koolhaas' unusual design for a skyscraper in Beijing -- his largest project to date -- uses an innovative structural system.

January 9, 2003 - Newsweek

If urban areas are to improve, the public must become a more savvy consumer of good architecture.

January 9, 2003 - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Dan Burden is on mission to make America's cities walkable -- and livable.

January 9, 2003 - The Kansas City Star

Welcome to Wal-Mart China. If there's not a Wal-Mart in your neighborhood today, just wait a few minutes.

January 8, 2003 - Time

Hydrogen is the future and needs to be part of a sound energy policy.

January 7, 2003 - E-The Environmental Magazine

Exponetial increases in off-campus housing, and lucrative rental income spark heated debate in the UK.

January 7, 2003 - The Times

The surge of theater-building around the world may slowing down.

January 7, 2003 - The Economist

Assessments of the seven new Ground Zero proposals.

January 7, 2003 - MetropolisMag.com

President Bush's 'war on nature' could have catastrophic consequences.

January 7, 2003 - Salon

A new book says the SUV is the car of choice for the nation's most self-centered people -- and the bigger the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to be.

January 7, 2003 - AlterNet

General Motors plans to offer hybrid gas-electric powered cars, pickups, and SUVs.

January 6, 2003 - CNN

Across the U.S. competing interests are battling over sidewalks.

January 6, 2003 - The New York Times

"Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated." Architects, planners and consulting professionals forcefully respond to recent claims of New Urbanism's extinction.

January 6, 2003 - Planetizen

Houston -- for the third year in a row -- is the chunkiest city in the country.The "fittest city" is Honolulu, HI.

January 6, 2003 - Men's Fitness

"Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated." Architects, planners and consulting professionals respond to recent claims of New Urbanism's extinction.

January 6, 2003 - Lucy Rowland, Michael Mehaffy, and Members Of The Pro-Urb Listserv

Introducing the first housing development planned around the needs of koalas.

January 5, 2003 - National Geographic