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Building Big in Tucsonnew

A 756-resident student-housing project has West University neighbors concerned.
Tucson Weekly  |  Dave Devine  |  04-13-2011  |  Housing & Development

You're Not an Environmentalist If You're Also a NIMBYnew

As both Berkeley and Oakland debate their downtown plans, there is growing recognition that the fight against global warming requires greater urban density.
East Bay Express  |  Robert Gammon  |  07-02-2009  |  Environment

A New Bill Introduced Rethinks Drug-free School Zonesnew

With the densest population in the country, New Jersey's cities are almost completely consumed by drug-free school zones. The result is that nearly every offender convicted under the law--an astounding 96 percent--was either black or Hispanic.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Daniel McQuade  |  07-14-2008  |  Drugs

Cohousing Creates Community (and Density)new

Central Virginia's first cohousing development is springing up. As it does so, its proponents battle misconceptions of what it is and the argument that the development, Blue Ridge Cohousing, was just too dense.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Scott Weaver  |  05-22-2008  |  Housing & Development

Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscrapernew

A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed.
L.A. Weekly  |  Patrick Range McDonald  |  05-02-2008  |  Housing & Development

California Shows Us How Not to Fight Global Warmingnew

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown are moving forward with new ways of forcing significantly more density upon L.A. and other cities. But the debate is being dominated by the smart-growth movement, unsettling several top global-warming scientists and researchers, who say the sweeping land-use proposals being considered have little basis in science.
L.A. Weekly  |  Jill Stewart  |  04-18-2008  |  Environment

Are Skyscrapers Really Good for the Environment?new

Density is our hope for long-term survival. At least until peak oil. The problem with these sky-scraping symbols of long-term sustainability, according to an energy expert, is "figuring out how to heat the damn things. If we assume the heat source will be oil," Larry Hughes says, "it's very short-sighted, naive to the extreme."
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly  |  Chris Benjamin  |  04-14-2008  |  Environment

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