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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, transit, green, 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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• Columnists

  Brookings: U.S. Is Literally Falling Apart

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

  Hijinks in Beijing, Protests in Shanghai, Russia’s Islands, Freegans, MORE

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Jan 14th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, freegans, beijing, bronx, trains, paratransit, yankee stadium | 0

  Olympic Vandalism

  Beijing transforms into a self-declared world city in time for the Olympic Games in August, it is also rushing to complete its “conservation plan” for 25 historic areas.Tens of thousands of families have been forced to move when their ancestral homes have been razed ahead of the Beijing Olympics. This means knocking the buildings down, removing the occupants to more remote parts of the city, and creating in a couple of neighbourhoods an ersatz version of Olde Worlde…

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