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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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Environment & Ecology: Mexico City Cleans Its Air, Cities As Cure For Disease & Poverty, AIA's Top 10 Green Buildings, Green & Shale Oil

April 23, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Mexico City Cleans Up its Air  Christian Science Monitor   As people around the world celebrate Earth Day, Mexico City may serve as an unlikely environmental example for cities in developing countries suffering poor air quality.
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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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Urban Issues: Ghana Urban Policy, Protecting Renters From Gentrification, Philly Innovation Hub, Taxes For Better Neighborhoods

April 17, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Ghana Finally Adopts Urban Policy  Next City   "Farouk's people came in their numbers," says Mr. Kwado Yeboah, Principal Town Planner in the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.
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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: Housing Supply & Demand, Reincarnation Of Seoul, Iceland's Cultural Miracle, Pope's Era Of 'Mass' Transit, Place-Based Immigration

March 26, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Markets a Third Way to Affordable Housing  The Greater Marin   It's no secret that the cost to buy or rent a home in the Bay Area is extremely high and rising. Thanks to a regional economic rebound and renewed interest in the kind of walkable living that defines San Francisco, demand for Bay Area housing is at a high.
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Urban Issues: Boston Adding Housing, Ethiopia's Middle Class, San Antonio's Busines Savvy Immigrants, Bay Area Low Income Workers Struggle

March 25, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Boston Looks to Add 30,000 Housing Units by 2020  Boston Globe   The city of Boston plans to add up to 30,000 new housing units by 2020 to meet the needs of a changing population that includes more families moving to the downtown area, Mayor Thomas M. Menino is set to announce on Monday.  
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Urban Issues: Austin Neighborhood Sustainability, Fed Water Resources Legislation, Money Wise & Resourceful Philly, Geography & Personality

March 21, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Implementing Policies to Sustain Family Neighborhoods in Austin  Austin Chronicle   Unless their habitat is preserved, species can go extinct. First, the polar bear. Next, families with children near Burnet Road.
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Environment & Ecology: Human Density & Climate Change, SF Water Future, Fighting NIMBY Enviros, Philly Green Innovation, Transpo Electrification

March 21, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Human Density and Climage Change  Price Tags   Nothing too surprising in this map of human dispersion on the planet. But on closer look, I had never appreciated how the highest densities in India and Bangladesh concentrate along a continual band south of the Himalayas:
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Blogosphere: Phoenix LRT Development, MO Transpo Sales Tax, Preparing For Streetcars, Saluting LA Transpo Future, Marin to SF Rail

March 15, 2013
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Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. TRANSPORT Blogosphere: Seeking to Cultivate Change on LRT Lines Global Site Plans
An ambitious project spearheaded by the City of Phoenix, Arizona State University (ASU), and St. Luke's Health Initiative called Reinvent Phoenix aims to change the way Phoenix's light rail is developed around neighborhoods...

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