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Bay Area Continues To Grow - At Fringes
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
In a report detailing three decades of growth in the SF Bay Area, an urban think tank details how commercial growth has been disproportionately in the non-transit accessible suburban office parks. However, SF shares the blame. Solutions are offered.
Housing Prices Low, But Not Affordable
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
The housing market has bombed, bringing prices and values to devastating lows. But despite lower prices, affordable housing is still in too short of supply, according to this piece from Time.
The World in Drought
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Population centers the world around are caught in the grips of devastating droughts. Though temporary conditions, their increasing frequency should be a call to water-saving action, writes Tom Englehardt.
Stimulus To Help As Transit Tries To Keep Up
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
American Public Transportation Association President William Millar visits Living on Earth to discuss how the stimulus will benefit public transit in the U.S. — and why it’s “the best of times and the worst of times.”
The Best Housing Markets for 2009… and the Worst
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
Builder Magazine selects 15 picks for the best housing markets to be in in the U.S. in 2009. Houston, Texas comes out on top, and, predictably, Detroit scrapes the bottom.
Recovery or Rerun?
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
A new government-sponsored watchdog website will allow citizens to track stimulus-funded projects. It’s an effort to insure accountability. Neal Pierce wonders if that accountability will translate into smarter patterns of development.
How to Become an Expert Transit Rider
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
This commentary from re:place magazine offers tips and insights into how one can ride transit like a pro.
L.A. Football Stadium Unanimously Approved
Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network
The Los Angeles suburb of Industry has approved plans to build a stadium in the city in hopes of luring a football team back to the L.A. area.
IEA says oil capacity crunch looms
ASPO International | The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas -
The International Energy Agency fears that an expected recovery in oil demand from 2010 and oil project cancellations due to low crude prices and the credit crisis will mean no spare oil capacity at the end of 2013.
"That is our concern. Investment, investment, investment, that is what we are asking," IEA Executive Director Nabuo Tanaka said at a conference in Lisbon on Friday. "We now see many cancellations or postponements of supply investment projects…and we learned the lesson last year when we didn’t invest, the market became volatile and oil prices reached $147 per barrel," he said.
He added that supply from producing oil fields will decline dramatically, and that to offset the decline by 2030 "we need 45 million barrels per day of new capacity, or the equivalent of 4 Saudi Arabias".
Read more: Upstream Online
