Today’s Headlines
Detroit’s longtime mayor urges a new focus on transportation reform (Free Press) Denver’s environmentally sustainable public housing effort gets $10 million federal grant (D.Post) Bike advocates jumpstart ambitious new project in Las Vegas (Bikes Belong Press) How did Thomas Jefferson make it into Planetizen’s list of Top 100 urban thinkers? (TNR)
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Elana Schor
7:48 AM EDT on September 21, 2009
- Detroit’s longtime mayor urges a new focus on transportation reform (Free Press)
- Denver’s environmentally sustainable public housing effort gets $10 million federal grant (D.Post)
- Bike advocates jumpstart ambitious new project in Las Vegas (Bikes Belong Press)
- How did Thomas Jefferson make it into Planetizen’s list of Top 100 urban thinkers? (TNR)
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