Smart Growth e-Newsletter
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March 20, 2008
Editor's Note: Articles are chosen to reflect opinions and developments in smart growth and transportation and not to represent positions held by ACCE.
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Driving Changes
Rather than pay for new and improved roads and rail lines with tax dollars, policy makers in the D.O.T. believe that "unleashing the private sector and introducing market forces could lead to innovation and more choices for the public." Of course, this non-traditional approach has its detractors.
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Growing Green Jobs
Here's a statement most chamber execs should find intriguing: "The movement to make American cities more sustainable, efficient and livable is perhaps the greatest new engine for urban economic growth, innovation, and job creation in decades."
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Thinking (Really) Big
Within Megaregions, as the thinking goes, "what goes around, comes around," as localities within the region are inextricably linked.
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Together in the Triangle?
Created in 1959, North Carolina's Research Trianglepromised to become a model of how regionalism can foster economic growth and improve quality of life. Almost fifty years later, how are the three Triangle communities that vowed to work together as a region faring?
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Upwardly Mobile
Mobile is courting (successfully) the aerospace industry - lately wooing Airbus' parent company, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., which has promised to build commercial airplanes and military tankers in the Gulf Coast city.
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