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15798
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Until recently, the taxicab has been largely ignored by transportation planners as an important mode of urban public transportation. But studies show that taxicabs have produced more revenue for and provide better services for urban public transportation than bus and rail operations.
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15799
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Of the many changes brought about by passage of the amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, the one having the greatest potential impact on urban planning is Section 208. Section 208 calls for areawide water quality management in all regions exhibiting complex water quality problems caused by urban and industrial concentrations.
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15800
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In the past institutionalization has been an expensive answer to the long-term care of ill and disabled elderly for North Carolina. Alternatives to this are home health and geriatric day care, both allowing the aged the option of remaining in the community by supplementing family support for aged members. This article attempts to analyze the alternatives as they operate in North Carolina.
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15801
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The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority has over the past decades, called for the need to expand airport facilities to accommodate increasing air traffic. Area residents and businesses are often opposed to such expansions. The author examines the controversy between the parties and some alternatives to suit both sides.
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15802
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Historically, local governments have focused exclusively on urban areas, but in the late summer of 1973, Guilford County Government and its citizens broke that tradition. Stimulated primarily by the need to dampen citizen dissatisfaction with land use regulations, the County Government set out to organize the citizens of its rural and suburban areas around community defined issues and problems.
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15803
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An alternative in energy technology is solar powered space heating and cooling. The author describes a solar heating and cooling system for a single family home in the Southeast, examining the system's costs and benefits.
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15804
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Rising electric rates have encouraged exploration of more efficient and equitable pricing mechanisms by the North Carolina Utilities commission. Alternatives include a peak load or time of day pricing scheme.
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15805
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Inner city neighborhoods, although in need of preservation and improvement, may not offer attractive options for investment. The author suggests a strategy of reinvestment for stabilization of the market that would allow for improved housing conditions in such neighborhoods.
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15806
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Land use and environmental planners are now using satellite imagery to prepare maps of areas such as North Carolina to develop an adequate analytical base for land use and natural resource planning
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15816
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Given rising costs of energy, many homeowners are taking measures to conserve energy. Older homes can be made more energy efficient without lessening the value of the structure.
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15817
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The rapid development of North Carolina's floodplains has increased the risk of flood-related property damage and loss of life. If planners do not take action, the problem could become much worse given the rate of development.
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15818
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Environmental policy in the 1970s focused on three major areas: pollution control, environmental impacts of major public actions, and resource conflict.
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15819
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During the 20th-century, governors of North Carolina used different economic theories to justify public policy for recruiting outside capital for manufacturing plants to the state in order to alleviate unemployment and poverty social problems. The author argues this economic theory explains North Carolina's persistent low wages.
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15820
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In October, 1979, the North Carolina Supreme Court handed down a decision on one of the most significant land-use planning cases in the State. Among the planning-law issues to be decided by the Court in A-S-P Associates versus Raleigh were the validity of historic district zoning, contextual standards for administrative issuance of permits, spot-zoning, validity of overlapping zoning districts, and the comprehensive-plan requirement. The decision represented a major victory for the historic preservation movement in the State, as North Carolina became the first southeastern state to affirm the constitutional validity of historic preservation.
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15821
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The current land reform movement in the U.S. seeks not only to change and control land use, but further to change and control ownership patterns. The economics of land ownership determines in part its use--whether the land is farmed or developed--and determines to a large extent who is wealthy and who is poor. A suggested reform to this movement is the establishment of community land trusts that remove parcels of land from the free market and placing them on a stewardship for a larger common good.
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