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Fashionable Prefab
Modular homes reach new heights: stylish, sleek, and even affordable.
Communicating The Impact Of Global Warming
Elizabeth Kolbert talked to the world's top scientists to get at the heart of the debate on global warming.
Challenging The Environmental Movement On Core Issues
Stewart Brand believes that environmentalists should rethink their positions on population growth, urbanization, genetically modified crops, and nuclear power.
Miami 21
Miami promises to throw out its antiquated zoning code and start anew to make Miami the city its citizens want it to be.
Is Leasing Toll Roads A Smart Move?
A key factor in toll road lease agreements is shifting risk from the public sector to sophisticated investors.
Wal-Mart's Green Program
For less than 1% of its 2004 profit, Wal-Mart has managed to boost its environmental image and receive media congratulations.
Right To Attack Mies Masterpiece Auctioned on EBay
Ebay auction of right to smash windows of a building designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe raises small sum towards refurbishment of this iconic example of Modernist architecture.
Conservation Under A Military Regime
A military regime's attempt at conservation worries experts.
Flat Earth Award
Dr. Fred Singer offers an acceptance speech after being awarded the flat earth award for denying global warming.
The Plex: Versatile, Viable And Urban
Plexes, abundant in Montreal and common in Chicago, Boston and other cities, are a versatile, dense and attractive form of urban housing.
Test Your Climate-change Knowledge
Grist environmental columnist Umbra Fisk challenges enviros with a (very) difficult quiz on climate change.
Lights Out For U.S. Traffic Signals
The nation's traffic signals fail in almost every aspect of execution.
Bush-Whack For Amtrak
Amtrak's Acela line "brake-downer" couldn't have come at a worse time forthe company, as Congress considers pulling Federal funds.
A City Is Not A Toy: How SimCity Plays With Urbanism
A detailed account of the relationship between the influential computer game SimCity and urban planning.
Can Active Living Design Curb Obesity?
Fighting America's obesity epidemic will required a myriad of lifestyle changes. Nature Medicine investigates communities that are rising to this challenge.
Biodynamic: Ecosystem Farms
Organic farmers are offering up a set of new labels for organically-grown foods: 'Biodynamic', 'Food Alliance Certified', 'local' and even 'beyond organic'.
How Climate Deniers Undermined The Kyoto Treaty
The story of how special interests and psuedoscience undermined the international treaty on global warming.
Most Extreme Backyard Makeovers
50-foot whirligigs, a few hundred sculptures made from concrete and ground glass, or a three-story high adobe mountain.
Time Magazine Names Five Best Big-City Mayors
Time chooses and profiles the best among the leaders of America's most challenging cities with populations over 1/2 million.
Invasion Of The Monster Garages
As people buy larger cars and trucks, cities try to balance the rights of property owners who want to build huge garages with their neighbors' concerns.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
