Topic – Neighborhoods
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Walkable neighborhoods = less overweight children
New study shows
New research out of Canada reports that preschool children are less likely to be obese if they live in a more walkable environment.
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Truly shared roads in the Netherlands
The Dutch "Woonerf"
Since the 1960's the Dutch have been building "living streets", which are designed to encourage human interaction.
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Special Districts helping finance planned communities in TX
The effect of MUD's and PID's
Funding large master-planned communities can be complicated, but the use of special districts has made it easier in many parts of Texas.
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Nancy Hughes
We need our city trees
The Forests Where We Live: Six life & death reasons we need our city trees
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Houston City Council approves changes to Chapter 42 development regulations
Houston is now one zone
The City of Houston will no longer have an "urban" and "suburban" zone, as City Council passed a large suite of changes to Chapter 42 development regulations.
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Houston neighborhood organizing against Keystone XL
Manchester borders refineries
Some residents of Manchester, where 90 percent of the tar sands crude would be processed, are fighting the development of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Sugar Land to add more red-light cameras
Officials report effectiveness
Despite their controversial natures, Sugar Land officials claim that traffic accidents have decreased by more than 58 percent at camera-equipped intersections.
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Santa Monica to study its residents’ well-being
Using nontraditional metrics
After winning a $1 million Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge grant, the city of Santa Monica will be studying how to build a resilient community.
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