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Urbanism & Design: Google's Southern Strategy, Top 10 Cities To Travel Car Free, LRT To Revitalize Poor Denver Area, Impact Of Driverless Cars

April 23, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Google's Southern Strategy, Attractive City Clusters  Seattle Times   The first paragraph from the Charlotte Observer's story might make one think that the South is getting ready to stick it to the high-tax, high-regulation West Coast again:
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Transport: Central Indiana Transit Investment, Chicago Picks Next BRT Project, FRA's Costly Rules, CAHSR Bid Rules Controversy

April 22, 2013
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TRANSPORT Transit is Crucial Investment for Central Indiana  Indianapolis Star   When is good enough "good enough"? That's a question we hear in business, politics and life in general, but how often do we recognize the real issue at the heart of that question: "When do we stop investing in our future?"
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Urban Issues: FBI Building Competition, New German Rental Regulations, Cleveland Cycle Of Abandonment, Selling Fed Property

April 22, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Bid for FBI Building Sets off Healthy Competition  San Jose Mercury News   The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency-and attendant economic benefits-to their neighborhoods.
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Transport: DC War On Cars, Albuquerque's Fake Subway Map, Philly Bike Share, Smartphones & Car Culture, Long Beach Cyclovia

April 18, 2013
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TRANSPORT There is No War on Cars in DC  Washington City Paper   If the District of Columbia is in the midst of a war on cars, then last month was its Gettysburg.
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Urbanism & Design: Vancouver Density Lessons For Seattle, Skateboarding Vs. Architecture, Urban Cores & Socializing

April 16, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Craft Brewer Surly buys Minneapolis site for $20 million Brewery  Minneapolis Star Tribune   The company bought land for a "destination brewery" in Minneapolis' Prospect Park neighborhood that could open by 2014.
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Urban Issues: New Jersey's Youthful Urbanites, Learning To 'Fail Fast', Sequester Cuts Housing Aid, New Childless Norm

April 16, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Old Guard Sees New Youthful Urbanites as Threat in New Jersey  Huffington Post   To many longtime Jersey City residents, there's no better mascot than their mayor, a colorful veteran of the region's rough-and-tumble politics who released an album of Christmas classics while in office.
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Transport: Taxes & Transport In Toronto, Passenger Rail Regulation, Indianapolis Resurrects Freeway Plan, Reorganizing Honolulu Transit

April 10, 2013
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TRANSPORT Let's Not Just Throw Taxes at Transport Problem  Toronto Globe and Mail   Remember back in the late 19th century? City streets in large European and North American cities were clogged with horses and carriages.
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Urban Issues: Open Data & Big Issues, Healthy Food & Prices, Ridiculous Housing Market, CityScan Enforcement, Separate & Unequal In DC

April 9, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Open Data Shifts from Apps to Big Issues  Politico, via: @urbandata   The term open data brings to mind images of next bus apps and geeks poring over data sets about potholes, but advocates say the next phase…
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Urbanism & Design: NJ Waterfront Development Feud, Sheep As Lawmowers, Chicago TIF Strategy, Creating Silicon Valley Urban Center

April 8, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN A City Model During the Great War  Bldg Blog   Past Horizons reported the other week that "a large concrete terrain model on Cannock Chase, representing a section of the Great War battle of Messines Ridge, is to be excavated" by archaeologists later this year.
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Urban Issues: Visualizing Spatial & Social Media, Nashville MPO Example, Hidden Subsidies In Cities, Home Ownership & American Dream

April 8, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Five Things Portland Can Steal from Other Cities  Portland Oregonian   From city mayors to business leaders, people from around the globe used to arrive in droves to see how Portland came to be such a livable city. They then took those ideas back to their own communities.
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