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Brookings: Fastest growing poverty rates occur in suburbs
Submitted by rgallentine on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 5:01pm.In places where sprawl without smart regional planning continues its inexorable march outward (and with it its expensive, car-dependent attitude), it is unsurprising that these areas might also see ma
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CNU Fact Check: What War on Suburbia?
Submitted by rgallentine on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:47pm.
UPDATE: The original story stated falsely that Senator-Elect Scott Brown gained 11 points over the McCain vote statewide. The actual number is 16.... read more »
The climate benefits of smart growth may be far greater than we have thought
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 7:46pm.Those of us who focus on the ability of compact regional and neighborhood development patterns to reduce the need to drive so much – and that has certainly included me – are missing some important
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Climate, Meet Mobility
Submitted by Katherine Gregor on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 1:57am.Climate, Meet Mobility
Copenhagen is all about green transport – and Austin should be, too
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
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CNU at the fire code hearings: Here we go...
Submitted by Jon Davis on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 2:51pm.BALTIMORE -- CNU’s proposed changes to the International Fire Code will be heard and either approved or rejected within the next two hou
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CNU's fire code proposals up today in Baltimore; watch the hearings online
Submitted by Jon Davis on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 4:14pm.BALTIMORE – The International Code Council hearings are an arena in which the (mostly) irresistible force of brevity meets the immovable agenda: hundreds of proposed additions, deletions, correct
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NRDC's Smarter Cities Project Wants Your Input on Sustainability Criteria
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 4:11pm.As some of you may know, Smarter Cities is an initiative that ranks US cities on a number of key sustainability criteria as well as on overall sustainabili
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Oberstar hopes new transpo emissions report will be “blowtorch to the behind” for reluctant administration
Submitted by logannash on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 7:47pm.A government report published yesterday and highlighted in the New York Times
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Security Measures Are Degrading the Urban (and Human) Experience
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 4:21pm.Several times each day, a military helicopter flies over my house in Washington. It flies much closer to the ground than other aircraft, and it's seriously noisy.
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In Senate committee hearing, advocates link transportation and land use, discredit O'Toole
Submitted by logannash on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 3:43pm.Streetsblog's Ryan Avent does an excellent job analyzing yesterday's hearing before the Se
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