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Northeast Corridor is getting better rail
Apparently you gotta have rail to make rail. The Northeast Corridor, the one area of the country with high-speed rail service (Acela) and the only part where Amtrak's not just borrowing the tracks from freight companies, is getting $745 million from the Department of Transportation for rail upgrades.
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Trying to make China's planned cities livable
Two brothers, an architect and a developer, team up to make new Chinese cities more people-friendly, easing the transition from rural to urban living.
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Breaking free from the infrastructure cult of roads
A report from the American Society of Civil Engineers touts misguided and outdated strategies for infrastructure spending.
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Wall Street Journal uses infrastructure as excuse to tell Tea Party to shove it
If you thought the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal couldn't possibly become any more backward or retrograde, the good news is, you're right! Today, the editors of the only newspaper opinion section to occasionally defeat Fox News in terms of sheer mendacity finally turned the corner and found a reason to break with the Tea Party notion that government should just go away already, so the country can turn into Somalia or Pakistan as quickly as possible.
The surprisingly powerful op-ed, written by Ed Rendell (Democrat, former governor of Pennsylvania) and Scott Smith (Republican mayor of Mesa, Ariz.), advances the notion that transportation is the one thing our government should be spending money on, even in this economic climate.
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How cities can get carbon down to zero
Seattle looks at an ambitious scenario involving changes in travel modes, more energy-efficient buildings, and shifts to alternative energy sources.
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A pop-up urban experiment: The BMW Guggenheim Lab
On Houston Street in New York, the BMW Guggenheim Lab hopes to incubate ideas and solutions for the modern urban world. What will come of it?
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Want to save energy? Stop wasting water
Turns out one of the single biggest sources of energy use in your home doesn't even show up in the electricity section of your utility bill.
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World's largest artificial floating island anticipates, causes climate change
Sure, it's got solar panels on the roof, but let's face it -- the world's largest floating island, which hosts an entertainment complex catering to the first world denizens of Seoul, South Korea, isn't exactly carbon neutral. That doesn't mean it isn't a valuable addition to the corpus of public works projects as thought experiments in how to create a sustainable, climate disaster-proof future.
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Bank of America is now paying to tear down foreclosed homes
Bank of America is paying for the demolition of some foreclosures in Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit. Could this help these cities to find new life?
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The Atlanta BeltLine: The country’s most ambitious smart growth project
The Atlanta BeltLine shows some progress and much remaining potential.