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  • The Making of Telluride's Strict Short-Term Regulations

    Late-night disturbances. Unfamiliar cars. As short-term rentals became common in Telluride, nuisance concerns rose too. In response, the town council passed an ordinance, defining short-term rentals as stays of less than 30 days and instating strict zoning and licensing requirements on rental businesses. Five years later, the policy remains effective and popular.

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  • Experimental City: How Rotterdam Became A World Leader In Sustainable Urban Design

    Rotterdam, a port city once at the center of trade and commerce, is now threatened by climate change. The city has responded to this threat by totally transforming itself into a hub for sustainable design. It embraces crazy, environmentally friendly solutions. From a floating dairy farm to a home enclosed in a greenhouse to basketball courts that soak up rainwater, Rotterdam has established itself as a leader in sustainable urban design. By 2025, the city plans to be completely climate-proof.

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  • Small-Scale Manufacturers See New Markets Tax Credits as Future Hope

    As major manufacturers keep "pulling the rug" from under urban areas, low skilled job loss increases. Nevertheless, small-scale businesses have instrumental in their ability to counteract job loss in improvised urban areas. Small businesses are using tactics such as creative tax cut regulation to cut corners to pay livable wages to low-income workers.

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  • Hospitals Can Be Key to Healthy People, Healthy Economies

    Hospitals in the United States spend over $340 billion on health services, but with those funds, they could also help the numerous neighborhoods struggling with poverty. The Democracy Collaborative is a research center that helps hospitals link up with local institutions to encourage job growth, buy regionally produced food, and reinvest into their local economy.

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  • America's First All-Renewable-Energy City

    Burlington, Vermont counts itself as America's first all-renewable city, satisfying its energy needs through a combination of sustainably harvested pine and timber wood chips, hydroelectricity, four wind turbines, and a solar panel array near the local airport. Aside from the environmental benefit of renewable energy, the city has seen other benefits in the form of cheaper energy costs and healthy, locally-grown food.

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  • How Mysuru became India's ‘cleanest city'

    Mysuru has become a gleaming example for solutions to India's vaster struggles with solid-waste management, toilet construction, sanitation strategy, public outreach, and other measures. The city uses a decentralized model that leverages a mix of municipal resources, NGO leadership, civil society, and cooperation from proud residents and businesses.

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  • How Raton got its groove back

    By investing public money, developing a branch of a local community college, and encouraging locals to invest in their own hometown, the small city of Raton, New Mexico has begun to turn their economic hardships around. City officials have looked beyond cyclical extraction businesses like coal mining in order to think about long-term financial success for their community members.

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  • Cities Closely Watching Chicago's Version of a Fitbit

    Already a model for the 'Smart City Trend', Chicago is now continuing its innovative streak by launching an "urban sensing" project, which will gather, analyze and publicize sensory data on the city’s air quality, traffic flow, and hyperlocal weather conditions. These sensors will not only provide the public with immediate and practical information about traffic, air and weather safety, but also guide city planners’ in designing energy efficient infrastructure.

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  • A Norwegian renovation project is combating stress with a new approach to urban art and architecture

    In response to the demographic movement to urban environments, Oslo is redesigning its public spaces in a more organic way. Its focus is to think over the long term at a slow pace and help people become part of the environment as they interact with the space around them.

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  • Designing a Garden for Singapore's Elderly

    HortPark is a pilot for a therapeutic garden in Singapore that aims to help the aging population through horticultural training. Horticultural work has facilitated overcoming some of the elders' diseases such as dementia and mental illness, as well as an improvement to their well-being.

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