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New communities need good planning
Seven Hills :: OH :: USA | 1 day ago
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Donald Denoon and Mary Mortimer feel they are living in retirees’ heaven. Denoon is fond of saying that when he moved into the harbourside development at Pyrmont he and his neighbours had only one thing in common: a million dollar mortgage. And that was...
Tags: Seven Hills, Community, Sustainable community, Racial segregation, Suburb, Richard Nixon, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, City, Sustainability
Hard times for easy-living communities
Melbourne :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Jocelyn Bennett, with Xavier, 4, and Eliott, 2, at home in Caroline Springs, enjoys her lifestyle, but according to a report, many in planned communities face financial challenges...Drawn to the large, modern family homes, and the idea that they are ''pioneers''...
Tags: planned communities, Melbourne, Australia, Government of Victoria, Racial segregation, Suburb, New town, City, VicUrban
Spanish TV gets a massive fail mark from viewers
Madrid :: Spain | 3 days ago
Credibility Poor quality and too much advertising is the general view expressed by viewers A consumers’ organisation has been collating viewers’ opinions of the quality of Spanish television and the answer for the TV stations is an emphatic: we are not satisfied.
Tags: Spain, Madrid, Television advertisement, Marketing, 20 minutos, Entertainment Culture, City
David Charters's top 10 books about bankers
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility David Charters is a former diplomat and investment banker, who left the City after 12 years of working on many large international flotations and privatisations. He has published six novels and is best known for his best-selling Dave Hart series of satires,...
Tags: City, investment bankers, New York City, Investment banking, Investment banks, David Freud Baron Freud, Edwardian era, Freud family, Traders, Sigmund Freud
Voters approve 'strong mayor' plan
Pensacola :: FL :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Believe in a Better Pensacola � had raised twice as much money as the anti-charter PAC, the No Boss Mayor Committee. Charles Fairchild, deputy treasurer for the No Boss Mayor Committee, quietly stood alone at the Supervisor of Elections Office when the...
Tags: Better Pensacola, Pensacola City Council, council form, council actions, John Peacock, Pensacola, Pensacola Florida, Politics, Faulkner Act, City
Tuesday Gardena City Council meeting canceled
Hermosa Beach :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Font Resize Tuesday Gardena City Council meeting canceled From staff reports Posted: 11/24/2009 07:10:06 AM PST Tuesday's City Council meeting canceled: Tonight's regularly scheduled Gardena City Council meeting has been canceled because there was nothing...
Tags: Gardena City Council, council meeting, meeting canceled, Hermosa Beach, Hospitality Recreation, Hermosa Beach California, Kiwanis, Labor, Gardena, Reduviidae, City, Oath of office
Supreme Court dismisses Oshawa student housing appeal
Oshawa :: Canada | 4 days ago
Credibility The Supreme Court of Canada's dismissal of a challenge to Oshawa's regulations governing student housing should spark creation of appropriate accommodation, City officials say. But the president of the student association at Durham College/University...
Tags: Oshawa, students housing, Supreme Court of Canada, court dismissal, residential area, City, lodging housing, Canada, Durham College, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Bylaw
"Unsustainable" cities need radical rethink
Singapore :: Singapore | 6 days ago
Credibility Singapore in an effort to produce a template for the modern sustainable city. Gerhard Schmitt. "Cities provide living space for more than half of the world's population, and this rate is set to rise. They produce half of the economic output but also half...
Tags: Gerhard Schmitt, Singapore, ETHZ, Zurich, Urban planning, Sustainable city, City, Pollution, Urban studies and planning, Central Europe, Switzerland, Environment
NYC Cops Shoot 14 Times At 18-Year-Old
A 18-year-old and two others were spotted by four officers in a city park after hours.The officers were in an unmarked car wearing plainclothes. The officers chased the 18-year-old.The other two men stayed in the park.One officer stayed with the two...
Tags: cops, officers, gun, killed, city, park, after, hours, wounds, neck, torso, extremities, shot, died, comply, Handgun, allnews
We can keep our leafy suburbs and still save the planet
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Blaming backyards and the low-density delusion is popular but wrong...In June, meteorologist David Karoly lamented that Australians ''aspire to individual homes with a backyard''; but the climate change challenge requires a ''move to higher-density living...
Tags: Melbourne, Los Angeles, sustainable transport, leafy suburbs, public transport, transport policy, Urban studies and planning, Population, Suburb, Urban sprawl, Demography, City, Social Issues, Environment
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