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  Denver: America’s Great Urban Canvas, Part III

  Simmons Buntin | Mon, Sep 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Denver | Tags: downtown, energy, green, development, streetscape, belmar, landscaping, public art, planning, cohousing, neighborhoods, sustainable, urbanism, redevelopment, lowry, iris hollow, new ubanism, holiday neighborhood | 1

  Simmons Buntin concludes his tour of New Urbanist Denver with urban planner Carolyn Dooling by visiting Lowry in Denver, Belmar in Lakewood, and Iris Hollow and the Holiday Neighborhood in Boulder.

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• The Daily Report

  D.C. Metro Purple Line: Yes Or No?

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, suburbs, green, transit, construction, metro, 2008, development, maryland, suburb, amtrak, trains, planning, neighborhoods, martin o'malley, purple line | 8

  Connecting D.C. area suburbs with a new Metro line will be complicated. Lawsuits and local politics have delayed the proposed Purple Line connection between Bethesda, Silver springs and New Carrollton.

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  Brookings: U.S. Is Literally Falling Apart

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Jul 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: jeffrey hill, economy, infrastructure, energy, education, jobs, politicians, katrina, money, democrats, oil, mccain, research, minneapolis, traffic, virginia, budget, investment, brookings, trains, brookings institute, planning, manufacturing, broadband, fcc, communications, tim kaine, technology | 0

  Next American City’s Jeffrey Hill was on hand at The Brookings Institute’s Hamilton Project panel discussion last Friday, validating his predictions over the last few months over infrastructure. As Linda Richman would say - America’s infrastructure is neither “in” nor “structured,” discuss…

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• The Daily Report

  Elephants in Pershing Square?

  Jeremy Rosenberg | Mon, Jul 7th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, jeremy rosenberg, planning, james rojas, bunker hill, pershing square | 1

  Urban planner James Rojas works with Legos, Mah-Jongg tiles, Scrabble letters — and the public at large — to model a more livable city. Los Angeles guest-blogger Jeremy Rosenberg reports.
  

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