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Can Wal-Mart Think Smaller?

Al Norman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Smaller Supercenters, E.F. Schumacher, Merrill Lynch, Wal-Mart, Suburbs, Tesco, Retail, Tom Shoewe, Aldi, Green Business, Sprawl, Commercial Real Estate, Business News
Al Norman

Wal-Mart is hinting at smaller stores. The reality: land is not available anywhere for the classic Wal-Mart supercenter, weighing in at over 200,000 square feet.

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Stopping Ocean Sprawl

Paul McRandle | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Acidification, Sprawl, Oil Rigs, Climate Change, Coastal Pollution, Shipping Lanes, Oceans, Wind Farms, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Paul McRandle

"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.

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Searching for a Fourth Urbanism, Part 2: Wherein I Find One and Describe it

Frank Gruber | Posted 08.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Everyday Urbanism, Sprawl, Vancouver, Santa Monica, New Urbanism, Barcelona, Urbanism, Style News
Frank Gruber

The developments in these three cities are based on maximizing and capturing the economic value of city real estate. They all represent intensification of uses.

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Village Green: Tax Sprawl, Subsidize Infill

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Urban Planning, Sustainability, Sprawl, Climate Change, Real Estate, Development, Smart Growth, Global Warming, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

When it comes to policy on sustainable progress, we should be including measures that change the way we are doing things, not merely advance the technology that allows us to do things the same.

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In Search of a Fourth Urbanism

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Architecture, Sprawl, New Urbanism, Everday Urbanism, Urbanism, Living News
Frank Gruber

If conventional suburban development is our civilization, it has had its discontents for a long time. It's worth considering what the alternatives are.

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Report From the Denver New Urbanism Congress Part 3

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sprawl, In-Fill Development, New Urbanism, Urbanism, City Planning, Politics News
Frank Gruber

New Urbanism is an elastic concept, and an elastic movement. On one hand it's pragmatic, on the other, it's got a Charter with principles.

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Report From the Denver New Urbanism Congress, Part 2

Frank Gruber | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Architecture, Sprawl, New-Urbanism, City Planning, Politics News
Frank Gruber

Theories were created for all kinds of urbanism except for the kind that became dominant in America: suburban sprawl.

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Village Green: Federal Stimulus Threatened to Overrun Small Town with Sprawl

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Sprawl, Economic Stimulus Package, Smart Growth, Maryland, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

New development should pay its own way, or at least make a justification as to why the subsidy is in the public interest when all factors, including the consequences of sprawl, are considered.

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Ideas for Obama

Curtis Black | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Valerie Jarrett, Arne Duncan, Housing, Green Jobs, President Obama, Jobs, Transportation, Immigration Reform, Broadband, Foreclosure Crisis, Bailout, Rahm Emanuel, School Reform, Media Reform, Social Services, Sprawl, Health Care, Campaign Finance Reform, Community Organizers, Chicago News
Curtis Black

President-elect Barack Obama now faces tremendous challenges, and local advocates -- many of whom have worked with Obama over the years -- offer a range of ideas on how to move forward.

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