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...where they are kept up to date on the truck's whereabouts. It has been profiled in food and design media alike and recently fielded a call from someone at Gehry's office, wondering when the truck would be making its way to that neck of L.A.'s suburban sprawl. And in a town where none other than Brad Pitt has made distinctive architecture as necessary as a personal trainer (Pitt interned at Gehry's office in 2004), the truck is regularly hired out for glitzy parties. (This past week, it handed out ice cream sandwiches at a Fox Studios...
...Moore spent one recent morning hosting a forum on small-business financing in an auditorium deep in the sprawl of greater Kansas City. Constituents weren't asked to declare their political affiliation, but given the audience demographics - Kansas business owners - Moore could be confident that a number of them were Republicans. For an hour, panelists demystified Small Business Administration paperwork and shared tips for landing loans from local banks. Then the Congressman invited questions...
Whoa - triple the density? Isn't the goal to ease traffic, not to add to it? What can be hardest for people to wrap their minds around is that to undo sprawl - and the traffic and smog and environmental waste that come with it - we might have to build a lot more on top of it. Right now, nearly half the land in Tysons is either roadway or parking. The new incarnation will be less car- and more people-oriented. So instead of there being stores and offices set back from the road, with parking in between, new mixed...
...traffic arteries - a futile endeavor that Tyler likens to "unfrying an egg" - but it doesn't call for widening them either. Creating bike lanes and crosswalks will help make the area less inhospitable to nondrivers. But what happens if Tysons doesn't bulk up enough to wipe out the sprawl? That won't happen, says Sharon Bulova, chairwoman of the Fairfax County board of supervisors. Enough landowners have already detailed their visions and are simply waiting for the official go-ahead in October to start submitting rezoning applications. And if the economy slows down the redevelopment? "Then it waits," says...
...city of 1.5 million, a sprawl of strip malls and cinder-block and tin-roofed buildings just south of San Diego, is fighting back. Last month, the city's tourism office launched a new 120th anniversary tourism campaign: "120 Things To Do in Tijuana." (See pictures of fighting crime in Mexico City...