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April 22, 2011
The United Nations will be hosting an exhibition on design solutions to improve the quality of life for the urban poor. Titled, Design for the Other 90%: CITIES, the exhibition is by Cooper-Hewitt, the Smithsonian ...
April 20, 2011
Central High in Detroit, the first public high school in Michigan, has undergone many changes. The latest, coming in the fall, could be the most dramatic. The 153-year-old monument to public education is one of seven in a new program that divides traditional high schools into smaller student bodies — or "schools within schools."
April 19, 2011
Another look at Edward Glaeser's provocative new book Triumph of the City, this time by reporter Mary Newsom and with a focus on Glaeser's opinions on the city and the environment.
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April 17, 2011
Manhattan's pedestrian plaza's are associated with increasing vitality, reducing congestion, and now this new study shows, improving air quality be reducing concentrations of nitrogen oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
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April 16, 2011
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No longer will Winston-Salem commuters have to hunt for change to pay to park downtown.
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A growing number of cities and towns are voting to or considering allowing golf carts on public roads.
The standards agency has posted photos of scientific instruments developed over its 110-year history to its digital archive and is asking for help identifying and placing them in historical context.
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April 14, 2011
North Carolina has launched a statewide aerial photography project designed to give first responders a clear picture of the landscape of the state. The project will be funded through a $12.3 million grant and will provide images to 100 counties statewide. Those images will be captured in such a way to present an accurate street [...]
Police agencies are using social networks to identify and capture suspects, but the officers need to be careful using the sites, panelists said at a conference April 5.
As a contingency plan for future storms, a dozen officers are learning how to get into locked cars, prep vehicles for towing and operate the trucks.
The City of Denton in Texas approved a traffic safety ordinance to assert the rights of the road for cyclists and other vulnerable road users.
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Veterans Affairs teams up with health IT group to reduce time needed to access medical records.
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April 13, 2011
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April 5, 2011
The Los Angeles City Attorney's office is trying a new legal maneuver to try to stamp out graffiti - it's charging 10 graffiti writers with violating unfair competition laws because they're selling works on the strength of reputations built on vandalism.
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For Release Friday, April 1, 2011 Citiwire.net Steam powered the Industrial Revolution of the 19th Century. Oil fueled the Global Economy of the 20th Century. The Digital Age of the 21st Century is clearly being driven by brainpower. That makes education a key edge in global competition. Yet for all the focus on schools and [...]
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