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Honolulu Commuters Want Your Input: What are Your Rail Station Must-Haves?
Submitted by globalsiteplans on Sat, 01/19/2013 - 11:21am
The following post comes courtesy of Global Site Plans' The Grid. CNU and Global Site Plans recently teamed up to syndicate Grid content, as its contingent of writers presents a view on the opportunities and issues of urbanization all across the world. CNU will carry select posts from the Grid dire... read more »
From a Green Bow for Attica, Towards a Green Belt for Athens
Submitted by globalsiteplans on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 11:59pmThe following post comes courtesy of Global Site Plans' The Grid. CNU and Global Site Plans recently teamed up to syndicate Grid content, as its contingent of writers presents a view on the opportunities and issues of urbanization all across the world. CNU will carry select posts from the Grid direc... read more »
three-cornered politics
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 10:38amYesterday, the voters of ten Atlanta counties voted "no" in a referendum on a regional sales tax to expand both roads and public transit. The new tax was favored by the region's business establishment, and opposed by groups as varied as the Sierra Club and local Tea Party groups.
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Winners and losers in the latest round of federal transit grants
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 8:05amLast week, federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $293 million in new federal grants for major transit improvements, including new streetcars, buses, and transit facilities. The Federal Transit Administration awarded the grants under two programs, funding six new streetcar and b... read more »
#CNU18 Finding the right political language
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Thu, 05/20/2010 - 6:23pmIs "livability" a reckless extravagance under current economic conditions? Too purely aesthetic? Not practical enough? And what about "sustainability"? It's become the accepted language of many in the political class, as well as enlightened designers and builders. But it's not everybody's language.
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Fighting back in the war of words against high-speed rail
Submitted by logannash on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 1:51pmStreetsblog's Ryan Avent has become the tireless defender of high-speed rail investment over the past few weeks.
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Urbanism for all stripes: Evangelical-oriented magazine's take on CNU17
Submitted by logannash on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 12:59pmCities are so profoundly shaped by political decisions, from local zoning codes to federal transportation allocations, that it's easy to lose sight of the fact that good urban form knows no political
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Conservatives and the New Urbanism
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 4:04pmThe Congress for the New Urbanism isn't a political organization in the same sense as that other Congress, the one whose headquarters are in Washington instead of Chicago.
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CNU XV Blog, Part 14: Politics at the Plenary
Submitted by MLewyn on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 8:41pmThe plenary session Saturday night was devoted to national politics, both British and American.
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