Topic – Urban Planning

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  Supreme Court allows local agency to charge developers for externalities of sprawl

  Increased driving and smog

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Oct 11, 11.

  The US Supreme Court allowed a lower court decision to stand letting local entity to charge developers for the pollution consequences of sprawl development.

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  Timothy B. Lee

  Libertarians & urban planning

  Writer, Forbes & Ars Technica / adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, Sep 06, 11.

  Libertarians should fight the older, bigger, and more systematic efforts to push people into their cars.

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  Public-private partnerships favor roads, not evenly spread

  Uneven project development

  Roha Teferra, Aug 02, 11.

  Use of public-private partnerships (PPPs) may be leading to uneven project development patterns in cities, favoring roads over transit, according to new study.

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  South Philly gets porous street

  $333K price tag

  Vilas Bhuchar, May 13, 11.

  Philadelphia officials unveiled the city's first porous street, which will act as a water sponge, thereby reducing flooding problems.

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  CNU pres argues for more school choice

  Former mayor John Norquist

  Vilas Bhuchar, May 09, 11.

  Many more middle-class parents would live in big cities if they could pick the schools their kids attend, argues CNU's president and CEO John Norquist.

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  Dan Bertolet

  Beyond The Requiem For Sprawl

  Planner and urban designer, May 09, 11.

  It's time to let sprawl rest in peace.

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  Lewis McCrary

  The cost of free parking

  Senior editor at the American Conservative, Apr 11, 11.

  An argument for parking meters with market-based pricing.

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  Scott Bernstein

  $4 per gallon gas

  President of the Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology, Mar 28, 11.

  "Location-efficient" communities would help reduce demand for gas.

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  Sarah Goodyear

  Sprawl can affect business.

  Cities Editor at Grist, Mar 21, 11.

  Does sprawl drive away talented professionals?

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  Repair, Retrofit & Light Imprint: Sustainable Development Tools for Houston

  Vilas Bhuchar, Mar 16, 11.

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