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				<title>Randal O'Toole (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>The Myth of the Compact City: Why Compact Development Is Not the Way to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10977</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Proponents of compact development argue
that rebuilding American urban areas to higher
densities is vital for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Compact city policies call for reducing driving
by housing a higher percentage of people in
multi-family and mixed-use developments, reducing
the ave...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Smart-Growth Plans Are a Failure in Portland (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10963</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Some people have suggested that Houston could have avoided the Ashby high-rise controversy if it had more planning and smart growth. In fact, the opposite is true: Smart-growth planning makes land-use debates even more contentious.

Smart-growth planners believe that Americans live the wrong way, ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10963</guid>
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				<title>How Urban Planners Caused the Housing Bubble (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10570</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Everyone agrees that the recent financial crisis
started with the deflation of the housing bubble.
But what caused the bubble? Answering this
question is important both for identifying the
best short-term policies and for fixing the credit
crisis, as well as for developing long-term policies
a...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Getting What You Paid For -- Paying For What You Get: Proposals for the Next Transportation Reauthorization (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10538</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When Congress passed the Federal Aid Highway
Act of 1956, it gave the Bureau of Public
Roads a clear mission: oversee construction of a
safe, high-speed Interstate Highway System. As
that system neared completion in the 1980s, the
mission of the Department of Transportation
became increasingly...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>High-Speed Rail Is Not "Interstate 2.0" (Briefing Paper)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10505</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The administration has likened President
Obama's high-speed rail plan to President
Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System. Yet
there are crucial differences between interstate
highways and high-speed rail.

First, before Congress approved the Interstate
Highway System, it had a good idea how ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Urban Planners' Ugly Conceit (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=960</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Are Proposals For High-speed Rail a Boondoggle? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10420</link>
				<description><![CDATA[On June 17, the Federal Railroad Administration asked states for proposals   for spending $8 billion of stimulus money that Congress allocated to high-speed   rail. This raises a question: Would you pay $1,000 so that someone &#8212; probably   not you &#8212; can ride high-speed trains less than 60...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10420</guid>
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				<title>Why PA Shouldn't Build High-Speed Rail (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10380</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last week, Gov. Rendell submitted an application to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a share of the $8 billion of stimulus money Congress allocated for high-speed rail.

This raises a question for Pennsylvanians: Are you willing to pay $1,000 so that someone&#8211;probably not you&#x26;nda...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10380</guid>
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			<title>Billions for Moderate-Speed Rail (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=925</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=925</guid>
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				<title>High Speed Spending (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10301</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Would you pay $1,000 so that someone &#8211; probably not you &#8211; can ride high-speed trains 58 miles a year? That's what the Obama Administration's high-speed rail plan is going to cost every federal income taxpayer in the country.

One thousand dollars per taxpayer is only the beginning. Cou...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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