Topic – Community
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Local foundation purchases Teas Nursery site in Bellaire
4400 Bellaire Blvd.
The Jerry and Maury Rubenstein Foundation hopes to preserve the land from redevelopment and use the five acres to create more open space in their community.
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Houston Neighborhoods
HoustonNeighborhoods.org
Houston Tomorrow launches its Houston Neighborhoods project in January 2010 to provide tools for stronger communities to neighborhoods and civic associations
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Senate bill would provide sustainable communities planning grants
EPA, DOT, HUD working together
The Livable Communities Act of 2009 is designed to help regions link transportation, housing, community and economic development, and environmental needs.
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Agricultural Urbanism
Transects & food production
Agricultural urbanism is much more systematic and planned than urban agriculture, and it applies the New Urbanist idea of transects to food production.
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Community and place even more important in the Internet age
Focus turns to urban centers
As our work lives become increasingly web-based, more people are seeking out home lives in more socially-connected urban centers and downtowns.
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City parks encourage children to walk
Helps combat obesity
Canadian researchers have found that the presence of nearby city parks encourages children to walk more, according to US News…
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Legislators introduce complete streets bill
Protects pedestrians, bikes
Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Representative Doris Matsui of California have introduced a complete streets bill in the House…
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