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Transportation, Land Use and Economies of Scale
While planners strive to enhance the transportation-land use configuration to minimize travel and transportation infrastructure, the seemingly unrelenting movement toward larger-scale businesses and services may be counteracting these initiatives.
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Grist Magazine: Control-Alt-Recycle
Grist Magazine offers <a href="http://www.gristmagazine.com/possessions/possessions040604.asp?source=rss">tips for environment-friendly computing</a>.<br /> <br /> <blockquote>U.S. consumers are being cheated out of the chance to buy the greenest possible computers, according to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and other environmental groups that have joined forces on the Computer TakeBack Campaign. </blockquote>
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In Defense of the Threatened Hope VI Program
Grants dedicated to revitalizing distressed public housing are needed to correct flawed Federal housing policies of the past.
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Top Ten Planning Issues Of 2003
From congestion charging to Wal-Mart's impact, PLANetizen editors outline the top 10 planning issues from 2003.
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Too High a Density Can Also Promote Sprawl
Densification is often promoted as a solution to sprawl, but too much density too quickly can also backfire. Adequately implementing a smart growth strategy involves positive publicity, family-centric environments, and motivated developers.
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Zoning Without Zoning
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Smart Growth and Schools
Urban sprawl's impact on school funding is more of a smart growth issue than is commonly realized.
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Is That A Load-bearing French Fry?
Wacky, wild, and cartoonish architectural design, although eerily reminiscent of the "gaudy, cheesy, and tacky" schemes of the 1950s and 60s, reinvigorates southern California cities with much-needed visual interest.
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ASLA 2003 Annual Meeting & Expo
Landscape architects, allied professionals and students gathered in New Orleans, Louisiana to participate in the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
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New Urbanism Does Not Promote Crime
A recent report linking New Urbanism to increased crime portrays New Urbanism inaccurately, and implies a grim world in which crime prevention is our top planning priority.
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Time to Face Sprawl Politics and the Sprawl Lobby
In the war on sprawl, the smart growth movement cannot directly compete with the powerful and well-funded sprawl lobby. But it is folly to ignore the sprawl lobby and its commitment to sustain the sprawl status quo.
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'Small-World' Networks and the Fractal City
Biological and digital networks offer important lessons for planners as they design cities for the 21st century.
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Secret Geography
Discovering secret geography -- the alleys and small streets, often with shops and restaurants, that are largely invisible from major streets -- you begin to feel ownership over a slice of the city.
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Principles Essential To The Renewal of Architecture
41 principles for architects to live by.
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