Today’s Headlines
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8:42 AM PDT on June 14, 2016
- Seven “Smart City” finalist made their pitch to the DOT (CityLab)
- UC Berkeley weighs in on San Francisco’s bid for Smart City grant (Daily Californian)
- Bay Area suburban residents look to rent control (New York Times)
- Sacramento’s now-empty railyards to become a dense “city within a city” (Sacramento Bee)
- As power plants get cleaner, transportation contributes a bigger portion of greenhouse gases (Vox)
- LA Times opines that cap-and-trade will “collapse”
- Cities can’t ignore freight (Regional Plan Association)
- Governor Brown’s plan would increase affordable housing (Sacramento Bee)
- It’s time for Oakland to grow (CityLab)
- Sprawl’s effect on well-being (City Commentary)
- How to build a bicycling culture…in Singapore (Channel News Asia)
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