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Environment&Ecology: Netherlands Lost Wind Opportunity, Clean Air & Rain Fallout, Portland LRT Supercapacitors Arrive

June 7, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY The Netherlands Lost Out on Wind  Price Tags   Wind turbines are a relatively common site throughout the Netherlands - a nice contrast to the surviving windmills from previous centuries that satisfy tourist expectations.
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Environment&Ecology: Peak Soil, China Petro Pollution Tax, Fracking California, Atlanta Belt Line New City

June 5, 2013
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ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGY Are We Approaching Peak Soil?  Science Alert   Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík.
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Transport: NYC Bike Share, Virginia Beach Private LRT Questions, SF Taxi Industry, Building New RR Under NYC

May 28, 2013
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TRANSPORT Giving Citi Bike an Early Tryout  NY Streetsblog   Today, New Yorkers turned out under sunny skies to try out bike-share for the first time.
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Urbanism & Design: Disappearing World Heritage Sites, Making Homes Accessible, Why Cities Flood, Beltlines Beyond Atlanta, Women & Building Design

May 17, 2013
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URBANISM & DESIGN Ten Disappearing World Heritage Sites  USA Today   Standing atop the ramparts of China's Great Wall. Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. These are the giants of our collective imagination, the plumes in our travel cap.  
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Urban Issues: Housing Affordability, Atlanta Beltline Internet Incentive, Nashville Mixed-Income Plan, Twitter & Geography Of Communication

May 17, 2013
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  URBAN ISSUES What's Happening to Housing Affordability  AARP Blog   The National Association of Realtors announced earlier this year that its Housing Affordability Index shows 2012 was a record year for housing affordability.  
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Transport: West Salt Lake Transpo Options, NY Bike Share Rack Resistance, National Household Travel Survey, Young Driving Habits & Aging Impact

May 15, 2013
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TRANSPORT No Freeway in West Salt Lake May Be Best Choice  Salt Lake Tribune   A freeway to carry heavy traffic north and south though west Davis County has been on Utah Department of Transportation drawing boards for years. The agency is ready to release its draft environmental impact study and name its preferred route.
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Transport: Newport VA PPP Deal Blocked, Micro-Managing Indianapolis Transit Plan, Charlotte Streetcar Gains Support, Atlanta Streetcar Costs Grow

May 14, 2013
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TRANSPORT Bottineau Light Rail Not Quite a Done Deal  Minnesota Post   The Metropolitan Council the other day approved the 13-mile Bottineau Transitway between Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park.
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Urban Issues: Template For New LA, Food Desert Mobile Oasis, Seattle Affordable Housing Failure, Reversing Atlanta Job Sprawl

May 13, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Hollywood as a Template for a New Los Angeles  Los Angeles Times   Over 12 years as the area's councilman, he has championed high-density 'smart growth' that's been business-friendly. But community activists worry about rising rents and traffic-choked streets.
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Urban Issues: Vancouver Affordability, Geography Of US Suicides, Atlanta In-Town Job Migration, NYC Apartments Sue Bikeshare

May 9, 2013
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URBAN ISSUES Pushing Back on Wendell Cox's Vancouver Claims  Price Tags   If (you've) heard once, (you've) heard a hundred times that it takes about 10 years of average household income to buy an average home, and that this renders us the second least affordable city in the entire world, or at least the English-speaking world.
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Other Views: Atlanta's Transportation Woes Demand Different Solutions

May 8, 2013
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OTHER VIEWS Atlanta's Transportation Woes Demand Different Solutions  Atlanta Journal Constitution   I've been writing recently on the topic of regionalism and transportation, and there's another thing I want to revisit from last year's T-SPLOST debate.
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