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Today's News - August 26, 2003

A small exhibition offers big ideas (and inspiration?) for Ground Zero planners. -- WTC Environmental Impact Statement draws comments. -- Rebuilding neighborhoods pays off. -- Waukegan has big plans for downtown and lakefront redevelopment. -- Pittsburgh looks to Prague for inspiration: "…we shouldn't be doing what Baltimore did 20 years ago." -- Baltimore looks to the future. -- Parking plans in Philadelphia: politics as usual? -- da Vinci town plans included an early form of prefabricated housing. -- Suburban Sydney suffers the "Americanization of global house design…buildings owe nothing to lifestyle but everything to image" (even sociologists are trying to figure it out). -- Landscaping makes condos more attractive (now there's groundbreaking concept!). -- Everyone is thrilled with Liverpool Museum project (but no one mentions the architect!). -- A new downtown library does its job well. -- A new school recalls old ideals. -- A new stadium scores (sort of). -- You, too, can own a Frank Lloyd Wright gas station (fuel not included) or a shoe house (old lady not included). -- An architect makes her mark in the world of comic books.