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...city that once accommodated 1.85 million people is way too large for the 912,000 who remain. The fire, police and sanitation departments couldn't efficiently service the yawning stretches of barely inhabited areas even if the city could afford to maintain those operations at their former size. Detroit has to shrink its footprint, even if it means condemning decent houses in the gap-toothed areas and moving their occupants to compact neighborhoods where they might find a modicum of security and service. Build greenbelts, which are a lot cheaper to maintain than untraveled streets. Encourage urban farming...
...Certainly, a project of this size poses many challenges. The financing of projects of this magnitude requires careful planning. There must be coordination between all levels of government and the private energy sector. Of greatest importance is the choice of site. Still, the possibility exists for Cambridge and other municipalities to construct multiple wind farms in the outer reaches of Boston Harbor...
...Several of the measures that Hu unveiled will have a dramatic impact, such as making 15 percent of China’s fuel come from non-fossil sources by that target date, while planting enough trees to cover what the Los Angeles Times calculated to be the entire size of Norway...
...Lotman, has afforded long-term residents a unique opportunity to revisit—and scrutinize—the gentrification they’ve experienced over their lifetimes. “I was definitely shooting for an immersive feel,” said Lotman. Appropriately, the book is large in size, filled primarily with photos and a colorful arrangement of descriptive text. It is divided into separate sections, one for each decade ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s and beyond. Craig A. Lambert ’69, who is reviewing the book for Harvard Magazine, said he was impressed...
CityCenter could mark the much hoped-for resurgence of Las Vegas, but then again, it might mark the end of an era, a sort of peak the city won't easily reach again. Owing in part to wobbly credit markets, Feldman doesn't think another project of this size will be completed in the city for at least a decade. (See pictures of Las Vegas...