08.07.2014
Raising the (Phone Coverage) Bars in Com...
Just about everyone has experienced it. You’re in an office building and your mobile phone connection plummets from four bars to barely one, making reception spotty. Or you are at a sporting event, trying to post a picture to Facebook from your phone, and it’s not working. Or you’re at a convention and your phone shows four bars, but you still cannot make a call or retrieve e-mail. It can be frus......
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NEW YORK, PHONE COVERAGE
08.07.2014
Culture can help tame eminent domain abu...
A working-class nurse named Susette Kelo never expected her name to be forever tied to a controversial U.S. Supreme Court case, but Monday marks the ninth anniversary of Kelo vs.City of New London. The infamous decision that bears her name gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood for the benefit of a multibillion-dollar corporation. Americans across the political spectrum we......
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EMINENT DOMAIN
08.07.2014
A forthcoming film about Kelo v. City of...
Today is the ninth anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London, the controversial Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that it was permissible for the government to take private property and give to another private owner in order to promote “economic development” because the hope of increased development is enough to meet Fifth Amendment’s requirement that all takings be for a “public use......
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EMINENT DOMAIN
30.06.2014
Dead ends: How zoning embalmed cities
Since the last years of the nineteenth century, covenants had been widely used to exclude undesirable people, buildings, and activities from new subdivisions. But these private contracts worked only imperfectly and incompletely. Older neighborhoods still lacked their protection. In principle, landowners could establish restrictions at any time, but in practice covenants had to be imposed in advan......
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ΠΟΛΕΟΔΟΜΙΚΟΣ ΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΟΣ, ZONING
26.06.2014
State Supreme Court to rule in Delta pro...
The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide an epic battle over whether the state must condemn and acquire parcels on tens of thousands of acres of private property to conduct preliminary testing for Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to construct two large water-conveyance tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The two tunnels – nearly 40 feet in diameter – would divert river water around t......
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PROPERTY RIGHTS, SUPREME COURT
24.06.2014
From Garden City to new towns: why Brita...
Contrary to popular myth, the UK has a rich and internationally influential history of urban planning, say the curators of this year’s British pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale George Osborne dons a hi-viz waistcoat and wanders around Ebbsfleet. Ed Milliband proposes rent control. Bank of England governor Mark Carney warns house prices might damage the economic recovery. All ......
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GARDEN CITIES, PLANNING
21.06.2014
Οικογενειακή υπόθεση στην Ιταλία η εκμετ...
Οικογενειακή υπόθεση στην Ιταλία η εκμετάλλευση των παραλιών. Χωρίς διαγωνισμό, οι κρατικές άδειες μεταβιβάζονται από γενιά σε γενιά. Οικογενειακή υπόθεση παραμένει στην Ιταλία η διαχείριση των παραλιών, καθώς μια κάστα ανθρώπων έχει κληρονομήσει από την προηγούμενη γενιά άδειες λειτουργίας των μπαρ ή λειτουργίας προσοδοφόρων επιχειρήσεων ενοικίασης ειδών θαλάσσης, όπως οι ομπρέλες και οι ξαπλώστρ......
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ΠΑΡΑΛΙΑ
15.06.2014
Designing a Manhattan Superstorm Barrier...
A plan to build a 10-mile barrier dubbed the “Big U” to defend New York from the next superstorm received $355 million in federal funding this week. The flood-prevention device is designed to do double duty as public gardens and parkland for city residents. The project is one of six winning proposals in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s yearlong Rebuild by Design competition.......
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27.05.2014
The Bidding For The 2022 Olympics Is A D...
Researchers have known for years that hosting large sporting events like the Olympics always costs more than expected and always yields less revenue and useful long-term infrastructure than estimated. Now voters and politicians in democratically elected countries are starting to realize the same thing. Potential host cities are dropping out of the bidding process for the 2022 Winter Olympics......
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OLYMPIC GAMES
05.05.2014
Racing to Get Ready: Rio 2016 Olympics
It is envisioned as one of the grandest parties in the Western Hemisphere—the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro will be the first South American city to host the quadrennial showpiece, and the events in “Cidade Maravilhosa” (Marvelous City) are expected to constitute one of the most expansive Games ever. For more than two weeks, beginning August 5, 2016, the activities will be staged i......
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OLYMPIC GAMES
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