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May 24, 2013|Architect's Newspaper
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"Though not completely erased, the use of fluorescent tubes and glaring security lights has been scaled back and in their place is a growing appreciation for sensitive, appropriate, and considered lighting. The arbiters of this decades-long shift are lighting designers." Read On
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May 23, 2013|Brent Todarian, Huffington Post
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"Can you have revitalization, reinvestment, renewal without some level of gentrification? Probably not, as any perceived improvement in the eyes of the marketplace changes the economics." Read On
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May 22, 2013|Popular Science
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"As the world's most ambitious eco-city, Masdar does not allow cars. Visitors must instead leave their vehicles in a giant garage at the city's northern edge." Read On
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May 21, 2013|Tony Burgess, Fort Worth Star Telegram
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"I'm trying to train new skills for this new generation of shamans who broker the negotiations, the dialogue if you will, between the mega-cities of society and the rest of the living Earth." Read On
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May 20, 2013|Norman Wright, Better Cities and Towns
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"...one thing is clear: everyone supports The New Urbanism. But only to a point. We know its Charter is a good expression of what cities should be. After that, we recognize there are countless means to achieve the end." Read On
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May 17, 2013|Samantha Ollinger, KPBS San Diego
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"If I had one wish, it would be to put a stay on any more studies... There's this idea that something is better than nothing, but sometimes it's worse than nothing."
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May 16, 2013|James Waring, San Diego Union Tribune
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"...And lenders aren't any less forgiving when a builder wants to experiment with a new idea. The financial industry does not support innovation and reward the industry" Read On
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May 15, 2013|LA City Councilman Paul Krekorian, Governing
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"It frankly makes me a little concerned about what other costs aren't being accounted for. $42.6 million is a lot to fall through the cracks." Read On
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May 14, 2013|Charlotte City Manager Ron Carlee , Charlotte Observer
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"Because the city no longer has room to annex new areas, ...the streetcar can bolster the tax base in older, less affluent neighborhoods. We will be a growing community or a dying community" Read On
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May 13, 2013|Margaret Crawford, New York Times
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"There is a new political philosophy emerging in which literally anybody can be an agent of transformation. It's bringing attention to the cumbersome and always-expanding regulatory apparatus of the city." Read On
