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KIM / The Dallas Morning News tkim@dallasnews.com Freckled with empty lots and tired storefronts, Plano's east side offers hints of its age. Yet as Plano gets older, the east side could one day emerge as the city's strongest economic engine. Also Online...
Tags: Plano, William Gietema Jr., Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Collin County Texas, Denton County Texas, Urban sprawl, Plano Texas, Dallas County Texas, Dallas, Downtown Plano
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
Close to a hundred people, give or take a few, sat down in the Hillsboro Civic Center’s main auditorium on Thursday to give or listen to testimony regarding the fate of Washington County’s open spaces, farmland, and urban areas. The panel...
Tags: Washington County, land use, urban reserves, car-culture, public hearing, Hillsboro Civic Center, urban sprawl
More than a blot on the landscape, urban sprawl is spreading rapidly into Switzerland's pristine alpine regions, according to a study released on Wednesday. The Swiss National Science Foundation reports that regions including the southern part of canton...
Tags: urban sprawl
The holiday of Sham el Naseem, which can be traced back to Pharoanic harvest celebrations nearly five thousand years ago, is a rare day in Egypt. Unlike strictly religious holidays, Sham el Naseem is celebrated by all Egyptians regardless...
Tags: holidays, Sham el Naseem, Egypt, public space, urban sprawl