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    • $1.1 billion Spent on L.A.'s I-405 and It's Still Congested (L.A. Weekly)
    • Only Relatively Recently Did Women Begin to Have a Say in How Cities Develop (The Guardian)
    • Sprawl Booster Starts New Think Tank Promoting Houston, "Opportunity Urbanism" (Chronicle)
    • Topeka, Kansas, Launching Bike-Share with Social Bikes (Washburn Review)
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    • Chicago Studying $350 Million "Superloop" Streetcar (Gazette)
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