Urban planners laud them, condo buyers love them, but mixed-use commercial/residential developments have yet to win the hearts of Winnipeg retailers.....

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"Space" is defined and shaped by social forces. A project at the Vienna University of Technology is presently investigating how current changes in these forces are impacting on urban development......

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We usually apply the word "feral," which means "reverting to a wild state," to domesticated animals that are abandoned and must survive on their own. But in rapidly shrinking Detroit, where tens of thousands of structures have sat empty for years, people are starting to describe houses and neighborhoods as feral-that is, as places where human activity ceased so long ago that nature has reclaimed them.....

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South Salt Lake shouldn't go into debt to prop up the developer of a proposed urban village near a planned streetcar line.  That's the advice of city-hired consultant David Wilcox of Market & Feasibility Advisors.  In September, Steve Aste of Z Partners asked the city to issue a $9.5 million bond to buy nine-plus acres at his Market Station site, between State and Main streets and 2100 South and 2300 South.....

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In Rahway, where an ambitious development agenda was slowed by the recession, city officials say new state money for environmental cleanups could jump-start nine downtown projects......

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An innovative policy to fight suburban sprawl catapulted Maryland into the national spotlight a decade ago and became then-Gov. Parris N. Glendening's principal legacy. ....

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