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Charlotte: A New Path for Charlotte Transit
Charlotte Business Journals (Paywall)
It's becoming clear the $119 million extension of the fledgling streetcar line may not survive the city's budgeting process. It's becoming equally clear that it might not matter...
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Ann Arbor: Rapid Transit Plans for Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor . com
What will the future of transit look like in Ann Arbor? For a boomerang-shaped area extending from the northeastern corner of the city through the center of town to Briarwood Mall, some hope there'll be a new high-capacity system of some kind...
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International: France/Italy Battle to Keep HSR on Track
AFP
Controversial plans for a 26-billion-euro high-speed rail link between France and Italy will be at the centre of talks between leaders of the two countries on Monday...
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Los Angeles: Downtown Streetcar Faces Crucial Vote
Los Angeles Times
Voting will conclude Monday in a special election on a streetcar proposal for downtown Los Angeles. The proposal before downtown residents calls for an assessment district to be created to help finance the $125-million project...
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Research: Road Pricing w Optimal Mass Transit
Journal of Urban Economics (Abstract)
This paper considers the second-best policy problem that arises when auto travel is priced below its marginal cost and there is a substitute mass transit mode...
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National: Tax Deals Mean Governments Pay High Price
New York Times
In the end, the money that towns across America gave General Motors did not matter. When the automaker released a list of factories it was closing during bankruptcy three years ago, communities that had considered themselves G.M.'s business partners were among the targets. ..
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International: Are Garden Cities/New Towns the Answer
Guardian UK
A new generation of garden cities and new towns will be employed to boost UK housebuilding according to Nick Clegg, who detailed government plans for a competition to encourage the new settlements in a recent speech...
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National: Lawmaker Tackles Blight w Land Bank Bill
San Francisco Chronicle
A southern Indiana lawmaker wants to give communities across Indiana a new tool to address abandoned houses and blight...
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Research: Density and Labor Market Churn
Journal of Urban Economics (Abstract)
Workers change occupation and industry less often in more densely populated areas, a relationship that had not been previously reported...
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Research: Are Compact Cities Environmentally Friendly?
Journal of Urban Economics (Abstract)
There is a wide consensus among international institutions and national governments in favor of compact (i.e. densely populated) cities as a way to improve the ecological performance of the transport system...
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Research: City Energy Footprint from Land Use/Transport
Journal of Urban Economics (Abstract)
Urban land use and transportation policies have dramatic effects on the density and spatial distribution of residences in large cities...
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Research: Barcelona Spacial Structure, Suburbanization
Journal of Urban Economics (Abstract)
I investigate the effect of improvements to the transportation infrastructure on changes in location patterns of population in Barcelona, Spain between 1991 and 2006...
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Brisbane: Urban Spiders Get Bigger, Fuzzier
Brisbane Times
SPIDERS living in warmer urban environments are getting significantly bigger than their country cousins, who have less prey to choose from and expend more energy keeping warm...
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Los Angeles: Food Related Amenities in Developments
Los Angeles Times
If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, can builders and developers land home buyers via the same route? That may be something of a stretch, but food-related amenities are fast becoming a way to make today's new-home communities stand out from the competition...
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El Paso: Architects, Engineers Moving Downtown
El Paso Inc.
Carl Daniel Architects and engineering firm Parkhill Smith Cooper are moving their offices to Downtown El Paso, renovating buildings in the Union Plaza Entertainment District that have long been vacant...
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International: Development vs Preservation in China
Conde Nast Traveler
Far from the country's sprawling megalopolises and toxic mines are places of extraordinary natural beauty that international environmentalists, and now even the Chinese government, are working to protect...
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Houston: Why The City is Bustling
Investment News
Its tropical climate and poor air quality - basically, it's hot and humid, and smells bad - don't get Houston placed at the top of too many best-places-to-live rankings of U.S. cities. ..
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