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Urban Sprawl

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Name: Urban Sprawl

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

America's Driving Boom Is Over

San Francisco, CA -- ( SBWIRE ) -- 05/22/2013 -- According to a new study by the U.S. Public Research Group (or PIRG), Americans have slowly stopped adding more vehicles to their family fleet and are waiting longer to get licensed and are turning to mass-transit ... [Published SBWire - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Transportation, Urban Sprawl, Pollution, World War II, San Francisco (United States)

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

FIG and FUG in Central Saanich

In Calgary, city council is promising to drop the acronyms and special jargon in favour of plain talk.Central Saanich council should drop their FIG and FUG talk and admit what their plans are to justify a new firehall: development and higher taxes. Just ... [Published Victoria News - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Urban Sprawl, Taxes

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

CNH Global NV

ROB Insight: Fiat Industrial chooses its tax haven: the U.K.

Lex is a premium daily commentary service from the Financial Times. It helps readers make better investment decisions by highlighting key emerging risks and opportunities.Welcome to Basildon! The English town is nothing if not inviting on its website. ... [Published Globe and Mail - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Fiat Industrial, Tax-Haven, United Kingdom, CNH Global NV, Urban Sprawl

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Annexation ban provides a breather

Half a loaf being better than none, Tennessee cities stand to benefit from a one-year ban on annexations, even though they may not like it.The proposal initially called for a referendum before a city could add new territory — which would have been better ... [Published Citizen Tribune - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Urban Sprawl, Referendum, Encumbrance, Agriculture

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Com Hem AB

Com Hem to enter corporate services market in summer

Triple play services provider Com Hem said it is entering the corporate services market and has appointed Ante Baric to led the new division from August. Baric was previously in charge of Telia's fibre services for property owners. To date, Com Hem has ... [Published Telecompaper - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Com Hem AB, Stefan Trampus, Urban Sprawl, TeliaSonera AB, Broadband

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Climate change factors already affecting southern Nevadans

LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3.com) -- Southern Nevada already feels the effects of climate change, and that's saying a lot, considering it is one of the hottest, driest climate in the United States.Dr. Tom Piechota from UNLV has been heavily involved in a current ... [Published My News 3 - May 21 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Climate

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Demand rises in dealership property market

M&A activity has led to a re-emergence of demand for dealership property, according to property consultants Barber Wadlow.It said dealers are being pushed by carmakers to upgrade or relocate outlets to comply with stringent corporate identity standar ... [Published Motor Trader UK - May 21 2013]

Entities: Property, Urban Sprawl, Economies of Scale, Famine

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Smart Sustainable Cities Need Holistic Approach, Say Global Stakeholders

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have a crucial role to play in tackling the developmental challenges facing the cities that are becoming our primary choice of habitation in the 21st Century, concluded participants attending the 8th ITU ... [Published Outside Plant - May 21 2013]

Entities: Sustainable Cities, Economic Growth, Agglomerate

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Mental health system too drug-related, says Irons as he launches farm project

Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons has said that helping people who experience mental health problems to live in a community is more “humane” than putting them in “homes” where they become reliant on medication.Irons, who lives at Kilcoe near Ballydehob ... [Published Irish Examiner - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Kathleen Lynch, Urban Sprawl

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Alkarim Devani fights urban sprawl one sustainable home at a time

Beyond Sprawl: One man’s mission to build homes and communitiesSometimes, it pays to stand out from the crowd. That’s what Alkarim Devani, the owner of Calgary’s Beyond Homes, is discovering. At a time when the homebuilding industry in Calgary is pumping ... [Published Alberta Venture - May 20 2013]

Entities: Urban Sprawl, Calgary, Okotoks (Canada), Airdrie (Canada)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Mexico's housing boom is bust

In the Parque San Mateo community where Sandoval bought his home from builder Desarrolladora Homex for about $29,000, neighbors play soccer in the street between rows of abandoned properties.His commute starts with a van to the station, then a bus into ... [Published Journal-Gazette - May 20 2013]

Entities: Mexico, Desarrolladora Homex SAB de CV, Sandoval (United States), Urban Sprawl

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Urban Sprawl Impacts Mountain Lion Population

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.- The Puma Project at UCSC is the only organization in the Central Coast that collars mountain lions. The Puma Project experts were an integral part in helping to rescue the mountain lion from the acqueduct yesterday. Also, the experts ... [Published KION 46 - May 18 2013]

Entities: Urban Sprawl, Cougar, University of California Santa Cruz

Quotes

"Parts of Joburg will resemble a massive construction site as we start to realise the corridors of freedom. This activity will inevitably result in short-term inconveniences for residents and businesses. However, the long-term gains resulting from this transit-oriented development will far outweigh the short-term pains we might experience" he said

Joburg, a construction site of develo ... [Published South Africa Post - 16 hours ago]

...Or as the Merc succinctly put it, BDCP must be stopped because it is "a classic water grab with the goal of channeling as much Northern California water as possible to Central Valley Big Ag and Southern California urban sprawl." (Never mind that the Central Valley is one of the most productive agricultural regions on the planet: On less than 1 percent of the total farmland in...

Skullduggery In The Water Pipes: Newspaper Condemns California's Plot To Solve State's Water Prob ... [Published Forbes.com - 17 hours ago]

Joseph Minicozzi, principal of the consulting firm Urban3 LLC of Asheville, N C , conducted the San Joaquin cities research. "It's not surprising research is showing that putting homes and businesses closer to city centers saves cities money because this is exactly what we're finding in Fresno, says Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin. Investing in the heart of our city not only revitalizes our once-grand downtown, but it's delivering new job opportunities and making it easier for us to provide everyone who lives here the types of services they expect from the city" Swearengin said

AUDIO: Report shows smaller cities can save with smarter development [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 22 2013]

"[It also] includes provisions that will require specific information at development stage to address potential conflict between tourist accommodation and residential land uses."

Council advised to back Stewart St plan [Published Augusta Margaret River Mail - May 22 2013]

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Why biodiversity matters [Published OECD Political Briefs - 7 hours ago]
FIG and FUG in Central Saanich [Published Victoria News - 7 hours ago]
The Costs of Chinaâs Mega-Cities [Published Dissent Magazine - 11 hours ago]
ROB Insight: Fiat Industrial chooses its tax ha... [Published Globe and Mail - 12 hours ago]
Annexation ban provides a breather [Published Citizen Tribune - 12 hours ago]
5 things to love about St Louis, Senegal [Published Getaway To Africa - 13 hours ago]
Agriculture helps grow county's economy [Published Portland Tribune - 13 hours ago]
America's Driving Boom Is Over [Published SBWire - 14 hours ago]
Joburg, a construction site of develo ... [Published South Africa Post - 16 hours ago]
Skullduggery In The Water Pipes: Newspaper Cond... [Published Forbes.com - 17 hours ago]
Com Hem to enter corporate services market in s... [Published Telecompaper - 19 hours ago]
All set for 150th anniversary at Royal Bath & W... [Published This is Devon - 21 hours ago]
AUDIO: Report shows smaller cities can save wit... [Published Central Valley Business Times - May 22 2013]
Council advised to back Stewart St plan [Published Augusta Margaret River Mail - May 22 2013]
Midhurst plan is illogical [Published Barrie Examiner - May 22 2013]
Jamie Hosking: Build up, not out to become worl... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 21 2013]
Water crisis can be avoided [Published Democratic Alliance South Africa - May 21 2013]
Seeking safety in the city [Published IRIN - May 21 2013]
Game shooting: The reasons why we do it [Published Shooting Gazette - May 21 2013]
Demand rises in dealership property market [Published Motor Trader UK - May 21 2013]
World: Seeking safety in the city [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 21 2013]
Urban Centres Can Feed Themselves [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 21 2013]
Mott MacDonald to design Gurgaon Metro phase tw... [Published Railway-technology.com - May 21 2013]
Smart Sustainable Cities Need Holistic Approach... [Published Outside Plant - May 21 2013]
Ghosts good for business at traditional English... [Published Toowoomba Chronicle - May 21 2013]
2012 November - Group Meeting – Middlesbrough [Published Rail Freight Group - May 21 2013]
Chance to delve into history of hidden gems [Published This is Bristol - May 21 2013]
Mental health system too drug-related, says Iro... [Published Irish Examiner - May 21 2013]
SEGRO Announces Major Development Scheme in Enf... [Published Hotel Designs - May 21 2013]
Climate change factors already affecting southe... [Published My News 3 - May 21 2013]

Blogs

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Why civic hacking is good for cities [Published Wired: Beyond the Beyond - May 18 2013] br /> *I wonder if any of these assertions is actually true. Obviously people who hack are gonna hack the living daylights out of cities if they get the chance, but how would one objectively measure if that was “good” for cities or “bad” for cities? ...
NBC Hypes 'Jaw-Dropping Images' of 'Melting Gla... [Published NewsBusters.org blogs - May 10 2013] Teasing an upcoming story on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams fretted over "The dramatic changes we've watched happen to our planet" as shown in "jaw-dropping images from above." In the report that followed, correspondent Rehema Ellis ...
Google's new timelapse project shows 30 years o... [Published Treehugger - May 10 2013] © Google EarthIt's one thing to talk about deforestation, disappearing habitats, and shrinking glaciers and water resources, and another thing entirely to demonstrate it with actual satellite imagery. And thanks to Landsat images and the Google Earth ...
Population and Ecology [Published Greenpeace news - May 05 2013] World governments, the public, and the UN now recognize that the human population number matters in achieving ecological sustainability for human communities. For forty years, since the first United Nations environment meeting in Stockholm in 1972, ...
Population and Ecology [Published The Greenpeace weblog - May 05 2013] World governments, the public, and the UN now recognize that the human population number matters in achieving ecological sustainability for human communities. For forty years, since the first United Nations environment meeting in Stockholm in 1972, ...