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Tampa: CSX Crossing Insurance Costs Streetcar
Tampa Tribune
The fight to bring a streetcar downtown involved big battles. Organizers had to choose a route, persuade the federal government to give millions for the project and overcome resistance from some residents and city officials who were worried about the cost to taxpayers...
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New York: Could Plugs Have Spared Flooding Subways?
CNN
Huge inflatable plugs -- now being developed by the federal government to protect subway tunnels from terrorist attacks -- likely could have saved some of New York's subway tunnels from storm-related flooding..
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International: Mexico City's Subway Line Soon Completed
Christian Science Monitor
For hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents, daily life grew less arduous and less expensive Tuesday with the inauguration of a new subway line that reaches deep into poor districts of one of the world's biggest metropolises...
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Twin Cities: Twins Negotiate for LRT Hub
Pioneer Press
The Minnesota Twins are negotiating with Hennepin County to become a partner in developing a $79 million year-round entertainment plaza adjacent the future light-rail hub near Target Field and leading into the ballpark's north side entrance. ..
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Research: Urban Ecosystems & Development
Urban Ecosystems Journal
In order to build competence for sustainability analysis and assessment of urban systems, it is seen as essential to build on models representing urban form, landuse and transportation, urban metabolism, as well as ecological processes...
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International: China's Landscape is Changing Fast
Business Insider
Night had fallen in Wuhan, and Mrs Wang suggested that we should go for a drive. I had spent the afternoon with Mrs Wang, a woman in her mid-50s who works in local government as an administrator, in the apartment where she lives with her husband, a professor of civil engineering...
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Tampa: Council Distributes Block Grants to Charities
Tampa Tribune
The little pink house on Courtland Street in East Tampa has been Barbara Johnson's home all her 59 years. But after a stroke in 2001, Johnson wondered whether she'd be able to stay there much longer...
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New York: City Should Learn from Dutch on Flood Control
New York Observer
The Observer has been reaching out to urban planners for the past few days now to discuss the issues with our waterfront development in the face of storm surges and rising sea levels...
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New York: Urban Gardens Need Urban Gardners
New York Times
WHAT postdiluvian New York needs is more gardens - that and $10 billion worth of sea gates. Right?..
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