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NPR talk with Ellen Dunham Jones: Retrofitting Suburbia
Submitted by kapoppel on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 3:48pmEllen Dunham-Jones, CNU Board Chair, was recently featured on NPR's TED Radio Hour discussing America's suburbs. Making the case that "the biggest urban revitalization projects are in the suburbs, not downtown centers," Dunham-Jones clarifies that due to the building of the suburbs without thinking ... read more »
"Suburbs" don't have to equal "Sprawl"
Submitted by MLewyn on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 10:28amGreat post at http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-we-need-walkable-transit-oriented.html .
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Major real estate report: shift to urban living is “fundamental,” outer suburbs may “lack staying power”
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 1:27pmLast week the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their well-regarded annual analysis, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010.
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The Geography of Carbon Emissions from Driving, with Maps
Submitted by Kaid Benfield on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 10:27amThe Center for Neighborhood Technology is releasing today a new series of GIS-based maps show
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Ten Most Enlightened Suburbs - Models for the Future
Submitted by Joe Menard on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 4:56pmAt UTNE Reader Peter Katz and Jay Walljasper outline ten North American communities that are defying the notion of "suburb."
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Credit crunch hastening the demise of large tract subdivisions
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 3:07pmEconomic troubles are causing home buyers and developers to reconsider the housing trends that have defined american suburbs for 50 years.
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Suburban Office Space Losing Occupancy and Value
Submitted by sberner on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 11:52amIn a recent article from the Chicago Tribune, Robert Manor writes about the decline in desirable office space in the suburbs, and therefore the value of that space overall.
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Energy Costs in the Distant Suburbs
Submitted by sberner on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 11:53amIn this article from the New York Times, Peter Goodman touches upon the notion that city life, which can be unappealing to some, is now becoming more practical, particularly to those who no longer wan
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Why the housing slump hasn't hit New York or San Francisco
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 9:09amInteresting article in today's New York Times Magazine at
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/keymagazine/406Lede-t.html?...
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Urban Living in Demand, While Sprawl Shows Signs of Decay
Submitted by Joe Menard on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 1:57pmChris Leinberger's recent article in the Atlantic Monthly discusses the decay of conventional suburbs and the change in the way Americans
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