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Greg Beato looks at self-expression via the front lawn. In places that lack homeowners associations, he suggests, individualized lawns have great potential to strengthen the surrounding community.

Greg Beato enumerates how American bike-sharing programs fall short of their Parisian counterparts. Until the program evolves some more, the autonomy afforded by the private car or bicycle will continue to prevail.

Pittsburgh was just named America's "most livable city," but don't try telling that to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Bill Steigerwald. In a column for Reason.com, Steigerwald writes, "Pittsburgh is in a death spiral.

The current strategy of encouraging traffic congestion and focusing on transit doesn't align with the majority of American's preferences. Instead of continuing to follow failed policy, planners should start using new solutions to increase capacity.

Todd Seavey believes that if Ground Zero's designers took a cue from New York City's iconic Art Deco architecture, they would be making an optimistic statement about the future.

Big business has learned that it's pretty easy being green.

Homeowners' attorney Scott Bullock talks about the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London decision and America's brewing revolution against eminent domain.

Reason's Tim Cavanaugh says it is time to remove the pork from the transportation bill to help rebuild New Orleans and other areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey examines Fredrik Segerfeldt's new book, Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the World's Water Crisis.

The attorney who argued the landmark eminent domain case considers the Supreme Court's decision.

Cartoonist Peter Bagge offers his four-part vision of one Seattle's internal battle to build a monorail.

Reason magazine weighs in on the troubling implications of Kelo v. New London. Will any property be secure?

Stephen Town and Randal O'Toole argue that in the name of "openness" New Urbanists are creating crime-friendly neighborhoods.

How Berlin went awry since the fall of the wall.

How regulators derailed California's most environmentally progressive development.

Is zoning being used to gradually purify New York City and other big cities?

The benefits and privacy concerns of "databasification".

Reason presents a provocative debate by four prominent libertarian thinkers about why society needs taxation and eminent domain.

If you're in the business of designing environments people will pay money to live in, you can't design your idea of utopia and force everyone to conform to it, writes Virginia Postrel.

Is some environmentalism a radical ideology or even a form of religious fundamentalism in moderate clothing?