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Town planners, civil architects and traffic engineers from the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Australia increasingly see shared space as a starting point for solving a wider problem: that towns and cities they have painstakingly designed to function smoothly too often turn out to be ugly, alienating and dangerous...
YOUR SPENDING: Save that rebate. President Bush has proposed a relief package worth about $145 billion to juice consumer spending. If you get a check, financial planners recommend first paying down any high-interest debt, like credit cards. After that, it's smartest to save the money--in a tax...
Tata hopes the Nano will help millions of poor people around the world - the "Bottom of the Pyramid" in developing world marketing-speak -switch from two wheels to four. Environmentalists, city planners and even some competitors, on the other hand, warn that the new vehicle will clog up India's...
“One option Cairo has is to look at its history for solutions,” she said. “Some older desert suburbs [such as Heliopolis] were successful. Studying success stories can help planners understand what worked and how to replicate that.”
There are encouraging signs that New Urbanism is beginning to take root in American design. The U.S. Green Building Council has begun using a pilot system called LEED Neighborhood Design (LEED-ND), which will include location and transportation use in its green ratings. Duany and his peers in the movement...