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...journeys were made by bike and 18% by public transportation, up from 15% and 11% respectively; car travel fell during the same period from 29% to 25%. Factor in the city's use of renewable energy for both domestic and industrial applications, and it's no wonder that urban planners from Brussels to Beijing are studying how Freiburg went green. "We have a big name when it comes to the environment and alternative energy," says Dieter Salomon, the lord mayor. "A lot of people, especially from Asia, come to see what we're doing." And Freiburg is doing...
...diagrams in “Jimmy Corrigan” present ideas that might otherwise be too complex to appear in graphic form, such as characters’ internal monologues or a tangled family tree. Entire panels are often devoid of dialogue, an unusual technique that reflects the isolation of urban life...
...related to the field of African-American Culture and history.” Peebles’s intended topics at his evening lectures are “Tokyo Traffic & Sea Turtles Laying Eggs,” “Porsches & Pyramids,” and lastly “Urban Culture & Dreams Deferred.” Elaborating on his cryptic lecture titles, Mr.Van Peebles’s publicity release explains: “The starting point in each of the three lectures are the insights to be gleaned from the juxtaposition of seemingly dissimilar, unencumbered, narrowly observed, generally held...
...move that could delay the progress of the negotiations, the residents filed a complaint yesterday with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) charging that the Charlesview Board of Directors has “prevented residents from participating substantially and meaningfully” in discussions with Harvard...
...Perhaps Australia's urban workers are much like their farmer cousins: when the going is good they are all for the market, but when it's tough they expect to be propped up by institutional benevolence. Of course, there's a powerful argument for sticking with an adaptable system that has served Australia so well - and that has evolved a long way since Justice Higgins' 1907 Harvester judgment on the basic needs, and appropriate minimum wage, of an unskilled male laborer. Nor does the case for radical change seem irresistible when Australia's recent history is compared with that...