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A "Radical" Idea Whose Time Has Come: Lehrer News Hour Explores Bringing Down Seattle's Alaskan Way Freeway
Submitted by Filmanowicz on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:47amMore and more Seattle residents are showing they are fed up with the domination of their potentially beautiful waterfront by a truck route.
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NJ: Affordable housing shift blocked by court
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 1:20amBy Tom Hester Jr.
Associated Press
TRENTON - A state appellate court yesterday ordered the state to reconsider a plan by a wealthy Monmouth County community to pay a poverty-laden nearby town to take on its affordable housing obligation, a decision hailed as crucial by affordable housing advocates. ... read more »
From NJ State Assemblyman Joe Roberts: NJ needs a new plan for affordable housing
Submitted by Michael McAteer on Sun, 08/26/2007 - 12:33pmSunday, August 26, 2007
By JOE ROBERTS
For the Courier-Post
New Jersey needs a housing policy that promotes -- not prevents -- the ability of our residents to live where they work. Regional contribution agreements (RCAs) are a barrier to that goal.
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Sustainability and New Urbanism in the Third World
Submitted by Karja Hansen on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 4:52pmA recent article on WorldChanging.com brought up the subject of sustainable planning and building in third world regions. The article specifically discusses the October 15 8.0 earthquake in the Ica region of Central Andean Peru. The city of Pisco near the epicenter has reportedly lost 80 percent of... read more »
John Norquist's Letter to Editor (Chicago Tribune) on Highway Maintenance
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 10:43amIn "Bad transportation policy, at a price," Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman appropriately bemoans the federal funding of highway expansion over maintenance.
Federal funding favors spectacular expansion projects with attendant ribbon cuttings over routine inspection and maintenance that can h... read more »
Pittsburgh Planning Two Prominent Green Developments
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 10:38amIn the same vein as Portland and Denver, Pittsburgh is on its way to becoming an energy efficient city centered around green urbanism. This
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Two Years Later: Displaced Gulf Coast Residents 'Stuck and Suicidal'
Submitted by Joe Menard on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 10:12amThe controversial aftermath of hurricane Katrina has been widely documented - a delayed response from FEMA and charges of racism against the government from affected locals. Two years later many displaced citizens are forced to live in FEMA trailers that offer little comfort or sense of community.
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Interview with Ellen Dunham-Jones
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 11:18amThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution just ran an interview with CNU Board Member and Georgia Tech Architecture Program Director Ellen Dunham-Jones.
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New Urbanism Growing in St. Louis Region
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 11:02amThough it took some time to get going, New Urbanist projects in the sprawling metropolitan St. Louis are slowly densifying the area and lessening automobile-dependence. A St.
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Anthony Flint on Massachusetts' "Fix-It-First" Infrastructure Policy
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 10:27amAnthony Flint, of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, has an interesting < a href="http://anthonyflint.net/blog/">blog worth checking out. He is a former writer for the Boston Globe and author of the book "This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America." In light of the Minnea... read more »