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Where the sidewalks end
One out of every seven people now lives in a slum--or at least that's the UN's best estimate. More and more slum residents are organizing to...
World Watch, 11/01/02 by Molly O'Meara Sheehan · More from publication -
What will it take to halt SPRAWL?
Urban sprawl may pose greater dangers to the sustainability of civilization than even many anti-sprawl activists realize. But in three of the...
World Watch, 01/01/02 by Molly O'Meara Sheehan · More from publication -
Cars drive up the costs of urban sprawl: "In addition to eating up more human time and motor fuel, car-centric cities require greater expenditures on transportation and other infrastructure—expenses that chip away at a region's economic potential." -
AS GOVERNMENT POLICIES have fostered sprawling cities, some problems with car-dependent development have become clear. Cities prosper when they can...
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 01/01/02 by Molly O'Meara Sheehan · More from publication -
U.N. cities agency on the mend.
U.N. cities agency on the mend: For several years, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) has struggled with neither a permanent...
World Watch, 05/01/01 by Molly O'Meara Sheehan · More from publication -
Planning cities for less cars - Santiago, Chile's, Ciclistas Furiosos
On the first Tuesday of every month, a group of L bicyclists take to the traffic-dogged streets of Santiago de Chile to advocate changes in the...
UN Chronicle, 03/01/01 by Molly O'Meara Sheehan · More from publication -
Peddling bikes in South Africa
* Peddling bikes in South Africa: In an effort to provide communities with much needed transportation options, South Africa-based Afribike last...
World Watch, 01/01/01 by Molly O'Meara Sheehan · More from publication -
Financing Sustainable Cities
"With insufficient public revenue to meet the rising demand for services, cash-starved municipal authorities have relied increasingly on the...
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 07/01/00 by Molly O'Meara · More from publication -
Balancing Technology's Impact - how technology companies affect the environment
Computers and communications equipment are proving a great benefit to the environment, but the disposal of obsolete hardware is causing an...
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 05/01/00 by Molly O'Meara · More from publication -
Gaining Perspective
The proliferation of satellite technology, from spy-quality photos to low-resolution radar images, is giving us new, more meaningful ways to...
World Watch, 03/01/00 by Molly O'Meara Sheehan · More from publication -
U.S. voters tell suburbia to slow down
In November 1998, voters throughout the United States - the world leader in runaway suburban development - approved a variety of proposals to hold...
World Watch, 07/01/99 by Molly O'Meara · More from publication
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