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Urban Sprawl Low Density
1,308 wordsThe urban sprawl that has characterized American growth patterns for the past 45 years has been held responsible for a host of problems, including: profligate energy use (Levinson and Strate, 1981 and Newman and Kenworthy, 1989); rising municipal infrastructure costs (Neilson Associates, 1987; Real Estate Research Corporation, 1974; and Frank, 1989); the loss of agricultural and wetlands (OTA, 1984 and Krause and Hare, 1975); the loss of community values (Newman and Kenworthy, 1989 and Freedman,...
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Act Of 1964 Amount Of Money
1,588 words... industry was having large difficulties that the federal aid started to be put into the industry. The Housing Act of 1961 was to help the commuter rail services that were having financial difficulties. As always with the government, the ideas were not to make things right before they go bad, but to try and fix things once they have gone bad. That would be the basis on federal aid throughout the decades leading up until present time. President Kennedy addressed the need for public transportati...
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Transportations In Los Angeles And The Bay Area
2,915 wordsTransportations in Los Angeles and the Bay Area Abstract Los Angeles and Bay areas of California have the sophisticated transportation system at global level. Modern transportation policies have highlighted greater capital investment in rail transportation than in highways and tried to dispirit automobile usage through transportation demand management. The present paper focuses on the transportation system of Los Angeles and the Bay Area of California State. Transportation system in theses two a...
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Refusal To Allow Transit Of American Troops
1,706 wordsAustria's Refusal To Allow Transit of American Troops Introduction In February 2003, Austria refused to grant permission to the United States to transit American troops from its bases in Germany to Italy as part of the mobilization for the invasion of Iraq. In April 2003, Austria refused to allow American aircraft to use its airspace when in transit to forward bases with range of Iraq. The Austrian government appeared to have based this decision on popular anti-American sentiment within its nati...
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