Topic – Sprawl

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  General Growth asks for Chap 11 extension

  Owner, Bridgeland development

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Jul 06, 10.

  General Growth Properties, owner of Bridgeland, along the proposed Grand Parkway Segment E, has asked for an extension for filing its Chapter 11 reorganization.

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  Mary Newsom

  Property taxes and sprawl

  Jon Boyd, Jul 02, 10.

  Mixed use urbanism provides greatest property taxes per acre.

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  Scott Ziegler

  Responsible mixed dense growth

  Founding Principal at Ziegler Cooper Architects, Jun 30, 10.

  Back to the city: Has suburban sprawl lost its sizzle - even in Houston?

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  Hotter summers for sprawling cities

  Heat island effect

  Jon Boyd, Jun 30, 10.

  Metropolitan areas with greater amounts of sprawl are gaining very hot days at a faster rate than less-sprawling areas.

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  Oversupply of suburban housing

  "Zombie" subdivisions

  Jon Boyd, Jun 24, 10.

  Foreclosures strike with the most frequency in suburban areas, according the new book, Foreclosing the Dream: How America’s Housing Crisis…

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  David Crossley

  Harris Co. on sprawl rampage

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Jun 21, 10.

  Harris County is on a sprawl rampage

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  Harris County may drop Hempstead funding

  2010 Capital Improvement Plan

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Jun 21, 10.

  On June 22, Commissioners will discuss the proposed FY2010 Capital Improvement Plan, which is not expected to include funding for the Hempstead Toll Road.

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  HUD secretary wants to end sprawl

  Secretary Shaun Donovan

  Vilas Bhuchar, May 25, 10.

  HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan tells a gathering of New Urbanists that the federal government should stop encouraging sprawl.

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  CDC: Consider health when planning

  Sprawl contributes to ailments

  Steve Hawley, May 21, 10.

  A new report from the CDC says that sprawl contributes to obesity, diabetes, asthma, and mental health problems through pollution and overdependence on cars.

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  Businesses moving from suburbs back to cities

  Some CEOs anticipate shift

  Steve Hawley, May 21, 10.

  Americans are shifting away from sprawl and toward urban centers, and the Harvard Business Review says that businesses that don't plan for it may suffer.

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