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Urban Issues: Controlling Beijing Home Prices, London's Expensive Housing, Small Units & Housing Costs

June 4, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Beijing Caps Home Prices to Control Demand  Bloomberg   Beijing, which already has China's strictest real estate curbs, is being forced to take additional steps to contain surging home prices as demands for record-high down payments fail to deter buyers.
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Transport: Costs Of Neglecting SF Muni, I-Go Car Share Sold, DART OKs Arlington Bus, Pedaling Toward Equity

May 30, 2013
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TRANSPORT UK Major Projects Report Gets Praise  Spend Matters UK, via: Crikey Urbanist   We don't often say this but ... three unequivocal cheers for the…
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Urban Issues: Spaces Under Freeways, Rough Time In Chicago, Olympic Village Transformation, Creativity In Cities

May 30, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Vacant Spaces Under Freeways For Working and Playing  Washington Post   You can't get something out of nothing. This is common sense, not to mention a principle of physics and mathematics.
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Enviroment & Ecology: Energy Generation Walking, Indoor Microbial Census, Breathing On The Subway, UK Wildlife In Trouble

May 28, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Walking Could Produce Energy via Shoes  Giant Freakin Robot   There's no better power than people power! A team of engineering students at Rice University in Houston, Texas have invented a shoe that can harness the energy of everyday walking to, theoretically, power small devices such as cell phones or mp3 players.
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Environment & Ecology: LA Mayor & Clean Energy, UK Collapsing Biodiversity, Preserving Nigeria's Evil Forests

May 23, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Could New LA Mayor Spur Clean Energy Boom  Next City   Eric Garcetti became the first elected Jewish mayor of Los Angeles today.  
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Urban Issues: Struggling To Reach Suburban Poor, Different Cities We Inhabit, SNAP & Diet Quality, Devolution Of London

May 21, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Advocates Struggle To Reach Growing Ranks Of Suburban Poor  NPR   Poverty has grown everywhere in the U.S. in recent years, but mostly in the suburbs. During the 2000s, it grew twice as fast in suburban areas as in cities, with more than 16 million poor people now living in the nation's suburbs
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Transport: West Salt Lake Transpo Options, NY Bike Share Rack Resistance, National Household Travel Survey, Young Driving Habits & Aging Impact

May 15, 2013
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TRANSPORT No Freeway in West Salt Lake May Be Best Choice  Salt Lake Tribune   A freeway to carry heavy traffic north and south though west Davis County has been on Utah Department of Transportation drawing boards for years. The agency is ready to release its draft environmental impact study and name its preferred route.
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Transport: India's Electric Vehicle Future, Financing Infrastructure, Essential Zurich Transit, Dedicated Lanes Speed SF Bus Lines

May 13, 2013
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TRANSPORT Future of India Depends on Electric Vehicles  Business Standard   Public transport is very crucial for a nation as it provides access to employment, community resources, medical care and recreational opportunities.
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Transport: Shanghai Monorail, Megabus 25M Rides, Making City Bike-Friendly, BRT In China, Bottineau LRT OK'd

May 10, 2013
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TRANSPORT Shanghai Thinking Monorail  China Daily   Shanghai is likely to introduce the country's first suspended monorail train by 2015 to improve the city's worsening traffic congestion and pollution levels.
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Transport: Bike Infrastructure Debate, Oakland Streetcar Study, Spanish HSR Lessons, Milwaukee Streetcar Plan Threatened

May 9, 2013
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TRANSPORT Bike Infrastructure Debate Settled  Streetsblog Net   For decades, cyclists bickered amongst themselves about the efficacy and safety of bike infrastructure. With the proliferation of protected bike lanes in recent years, however, everyone can see that predictions about bike lanes making streets more dangerous for cycling simply didn't come to pass.
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