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What we’re reading: Charlotte’s new streetcars

By | July 19, 2010, 1:28 PM PDT

1.) Bruce Nussbaum: When it comes to innovation, U.S. companies talk the talk and Asian and European companies walk the walk.

2.) It’s the 75th anniversary of the parking meter (and the hatred for them).

3.) A country of cities: Vishaan Chakrabarti imagines a market-based approach to land use in the U.S.

4.) Fueled by federal grants and city coffers, Charlotte, N.C. plans a 10-mile streetcar project.

5.) Many country roads in the U.S. have deteriorated so much that local officials are reverting them to gravel.

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Andrew Nusca is editor of SmartPlanet.

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Andrew Nusca is editor of SmartPlanet and an associate editor for ZDNet. Previously, he worked at Money, Men's Vogue and Popular Mechanics magazines. He holds degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and New York University. He based in New York but resides in Philadelphia.

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