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• Cities for Cycling: Creating Safe Urban Bike Infrastructure

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 492
  The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program and the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)  organized an event, “Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around,” at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. David Byrne, former lead singer of the Talking Heads and author of ...
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• Smart Growth principles vs. the rigorously mundane in Franklin

  
  Sprawled Out: The Search for Community in the American Suburb — Authority: 463
  At the Economic Development Commission Meeting on November 23rd (the one where we were introduced to the mind-boggling concept of the Aerotropolis ), Franklin Automotive presented a site expansion proposal for their location on Ryan Road. They also brought a laundry list of potential incentives for the ECD to ...
  4 days ago

• Rauch Douzinas: Adelphi’s lessons

  
  Long Island Business News — Authority: 486
  If you want to see a place that has made big and positive change for residents, commuters, workers, and even the planet – check out the dazzling new campus of Adelphi University.They’ve just opened a 75,000-square-foot recreation and sports venue, a performing arts center, an outdoor sports complex and a new Early ...
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• Taking American Land and Rights – How It Works

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 138
  By Nancy Levant “All treaties, Memorandums of Understanding, and alliances with the U.N. trump the Constitutional Laws of the United States.” Why the “New World” is so difficult to understand is not as complex as one might guess. While we naturally focus upon local issues and concerns such as community ...
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• Questions For Gov. Martin O’Malley (And For All Marylanders)

  
  Maryland On My Mind — Authority: 424
  Gov. Martin O’Malley will effectively kick off his 2010 re-election campaign with an online townhall meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, and he has asked all Marylanders to submit questions.Let’s skip the softball questions. Let’s play hardball (apologies to Chris Matthews).Many Americans hold government and politics ...
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• EPA’s smart growth awards recognize exceptional projects across the country

  
  Smart Growth Around America — Authority: 404
  The recession may have slowed growth in many places across the country, but the economic difficulties have only reaffirmed the need to be smarter than ever about what we build, and where we build it. Earlier this week, four municipalities from across the country were recognized by the US EPA for their innovative work ...
  1 week ago

• EPA Recognizes Top Cities For Achievement in Smart Growth

  
  Real Estate Opinion MAG - AgentGenius — Authority: 573
  Did San Francisco or Lancaster win? Let’s see: This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named the winners of the 2009 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement , recognizing “outstanding achievement in smart growth by tribal, state, local or regional governments in four categories: Overall ...
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• Streetcars Are Desired

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 155
  Original Author:  noreply@blogger.com (Lowell) Instead of spending billions of dollars (which we dont have anyway) on roads or on big, white elephant projects like Bechtels Metro to Dulles boondoggle, how about this ? A coalition aimed at building a streetcar network across ...
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• Streetcars Are Desired

  
  Blue Virginia — Authority: 142
  Instead of spending billions of dollars (which we dont have anyway) on roads or on big, white elephant projects like Bechtels Metro to Dulles boondoggle, how about this ? A coalition aimed at building a streetcar network across Northern Virginia held its first meeting Nov. 18. The group, the Northern Virginia ...
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• EPA’s 2009 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 492
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the winners of the 8th annual national award for smart growth achievement at the National Building Museum this week. EPA Adminstrator Lisa Jackson introduced the award winners by saying diverse projects facing a range of issues in different environments were ...
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• The Smart Growth Manual: An Interview with author Mike Lydon

  
  Sprawled Out: The Search for Community in the American Suburb — Authority: 463
  My copy of the Smart Growth Manual arrives today. If its even half as good as Suburban Nation , itll soon be bristling with post-it notes. Mike Lydon, co-author of the new Smart Growth Manual , is a member of the Next American Vanguard , a group of 34 young advocates, planners and policymakers ...
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• Getting to smart growth relies on common sense, while staying with stupid growth thinking allows us to remain foolish

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 535
  While I mentioned this letter to the editor, " Smart Growth needs common sense ,"from the Gazette in a blog entry yesterday, I was thinking about it more this morning. For the most part, "growth" or new development, is going to happen--so long as it is supported by existing zoning--whether or not people want it. ...
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• Smart growth is on track

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 154
  Ten years after a state Legislature adopted a landmark law requiring all Wisconsin communities and counties to adopt a comprehensive plan for their communities by Jan. 1, 2010, most have done so.Yet at this 11th hour, many governments are still scrambling to adopt their plans in the next 30 days. Some of them will ...
  2 weeks ago

• smart invaders

  
  BerlinRomExpress — Authority: 125
  For decades they were sitting pretty at the bottom of stiff cartons d’invitation . Good, old fashioned smart dress codes. Smart like in Cary Grant. Smart ass! Then came management by objectives and project management science. MBO. PM. And other acronyms. Such as S.M.A.R.T. objectives. Challenging… The brain ...
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• Harlem Block Party: Entire Block of 135th Street Slated for Green Retrofits

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Some blocks get all the history. West 135th Street in Harlem, between 7th Avenue and Lenox, was one of the proudest blocks in the neighborhood during Harlems glory years. In 1910, the St. Philips Episcopal Church -- the wealthiest of uptowns black churches during that period -- bought the block of homes on 135th ...
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• Harlem Block to Make History – Again

  
  New York City News Service - CUNY Graduate School of Journalism — Authority: 544
  Water doesn’t trickle down from the right basin of Jeanette Davis ‘ sink - it pours. Puddles have formed under the kitchen cabinet of her W. 135th St. apartment, and the 58-year-old recently used a broom to evict a live rat from her neighbor’s mailbox. “And this is what I go through every day,” she said. ...
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• Rising house prices not the result of a ‘strong market’ but of a totally malfunctioning market

  
  Not PC — Authority: 631
  Bad as the Reserve Bank’s focus on bogus “ price stability ” is, which as Phil Goff bewailed last week it targets with the blunt instrument of interest rates, it turns out there is little it can do about housing prince inflation – but as we’ve explained many times before , and as Owen McShane ...
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• Streetcars Coming to Alexandria Too?

  
  (Obsolete Feed) — Authority: 540
  Coming to a D.C. street near you: Washington’s streetcars are on their way from the  Czech Republic. Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon now. D.C.’s getting streetcar lines, as are Arlington and Fairfax, and now a group of Alexandria residents is hoping the idea will catch on there too. Last night, an ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Illusive Dream of Modern American Rail

  
  TheCityFix.com — Authority: 528
  For a total of 7 minutes train geeks can rejoice while riding Amtrak’s Acela Express glides at 150 mph in America’s northeast corridor. That track, located in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, totals 18 miles and ...
  3 weeks ago

• NPU F rejects Beltline proposal for 10th and Monroe

  
  Fresh Loaf — Authority: 642
  Residents say nein to more density at bustling intersection
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