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Unfortunately, I recently drove most of the eastern portions of I-275.  I noticed that miles and miles of precast concrete sound barrier ...

“What were seeing right now is an inability to look at how we live and how it relates to our problems, and financial problems,” said Kunstle...

....We’re both happier and more productive when we’re interacting with other people in person. And so high-density development patterns have...

....we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national pr...

View Larger Map A fascinating article in the NY Times about city in the California desert that had big aspirations but is now mostly vacant...

...the previous model was based on the assumption that the United States could prop up the single family home in a distant location by keepi...

“A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.” -JH Kunslter  

In an editorial piece in the Enquirer last month , Ed Cunningham claimed that Federal Government policy assisted the depopulation of US citi...

The Not-So-Affordable Neighborhood Three out of five U.S. communities are too pricey for the average American when transportation costs are ...

Sometimes, when I read articles like this, I think that in an alternate universe wherein this was normal conservative writing, I could be a ...

I thought this was the 21st century?! The article in the Enquirer today about new growth in Harrison has generated the typical nonsense co...

The Enquirer had an article about this documentary , and I also happened to see it the following week. It is interesting because it uses t...

..No Kidding: ....the tax code encourages Americans to live in big, energy-guzzling homes, ... and Congress seems intent on further unbalanc...

Click CNN to see a news video about why these new streets have no houses on them: View fayetteville in a larger map Then look at this grap...

Hamilton Avenue: Unincorporated Area. I remember this area of town pretty well from when I was little. We had a great aunt that lived righ...

A few days ago, I saw that Liberty Township was touting the construction that is following the millions of dollars spent on a new highway i...

A CNN article : The size of newly built homes fell in 2008 for the first time in almost 15 years. Is the McMansion era on the wane? ... ...

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/07/15/15climatewire-a-son-of-portland-ore-tries-to-puncture-the-52412.html Randall O'Toole is given a ...

NYT slideshow of partially built projects that may never get finished:   In a similar vein, an article in WSJ : ...Small houses on small lo...