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  Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

  Ray Hainer | Thu, Aug 14th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: traffic, traffic, freakonomics, freakonomics, army ants, tom vanderbilt, tom vanderbilt, slate.com, slate.com | 2

  Tom Vanderbilt’s breezy new book, Traffic, looks at the science and humanity of driving, and asks why people can’t get along on the road.

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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, education, energy, infrastructure, jobs, money, democrats, politicians, oil, katrina, mccain, research, minneapolis, traffic, virginia, budget, investment, brookings, brookings institute, trains, planning, tim kaine, broadband, manufacturing, communications, technology, fcc | 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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  It Takes a Village

  Next American City | Mon, Jun 30th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Los Angeles | Tags: los angeles, california, sustainability, traffic, jeremy rosenberg, lois arkin, car retraining | 0

  On a block with a quixotic history, Lois Arkin and company dream up a sustainable urban community. Guest-blogger Jeremy Rosenberg reports from Los Angeles.

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  Sprawl in D.C. is Sputtering to a Stop

  Larry Martin | Mon, Apr 21st, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: transportation, news, suburbs, economy, growth, transit, jobs, mortgage, metro, 2008, washington dc, bus, larry martin, consumers, inflation, traffic, sprawl, gas prices, virginia | 0

  Sprawl in the Metro-DC area has all but stopped.  The deflating housing bubble, price inflation and the economic downturn accomplished (at least temporarily) what slow-growth advocates were achieving at best, very slowly.  However, with a growing economy the DC suburbs are reeling not only from the sub-prime mortgage bust; there are strong indications that the region’s residents are beginning to calculate the cost of transportation to and from work into their housing selection.

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  Saving B.W Cooper, Spacing Montreal, Atlanta’s Standstill, A Day in the Life, more

  Hayley Richardson | Thu, Dec 20th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, headlines, atlanta, traffic, b.w. cooper, west harlem, point of no return, urban planner, governor's island | 0

  B.W Cooper Safe, For the Time Being

  “A day of demolition for the B.W. Cooper housing complex was stopped today by three local housing activists who chained themselves to the facilities as the bulldozers were getting ready to continue tearing down the 1,000-unit complex. After attempting to start work for an hour, bulldozer operators gave up for the day when the three activists – Jamie “Bork” Loughner, Elizabeth Cook, and Joy Kohler – refused to leave.Spacing: Montreal

  “The…

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