SÃ£o Paulo Journal: Streets Are Paved With NeonÂs Glare, and City Calls a Halt
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SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil, overwhelmed by what the authorities call visual pollution, plans to press the Âdelete allÂ button on outdoor advertising.
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By Tim Blangger, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 25--Some evening after dark, turn off all the lights in your house. After your eyes adjust to the darkness, look around.
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The reigning downtown It party known as Misshapes came to a neon-tinged end early Sunday morning.
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Pilgrim buses clog a road just outside the Old City of Damascus. Partly to solve that nuisance, municipal planners want to carve a highway through a historic but neglected quarter of the Syrian capital.
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A law banning billboards and hoardings in Brazil's biggest city is facing legal challenges from angry ad firms.
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This city's Carnival season got off to a rough start when thunderstorms and chilly temperatures canceled or postponed most of Friday's parades.
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Once again the city is beginning to stir. It's 11 p.m. Never has the term 'night and day' been better applied than when discussing the popular tourist destination.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil, March 8 -- Thousands of students, workers and environmentalists protesting President Bush's arrival here Thursday shut down a road in a central business district, and some clashed with helmet-wearing riot police who fired tear gas and beat demonstrators.
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A brief power outage darkened a large swath of Manhattan and the Bronx on Wednesday, knocking out traffic lights, cutting subway service and forcing the evacuation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on one of the hottest days of the year.
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Thousands of tourists who hoped to ride the city's famed red-and-tan cable cars were left disappointed after a frayed cable line prompted a shutdown of one of the system's most popular routes.
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How our lives ground to a halt when a storm knocked out power.
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By Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 16--The people, places and things we encounter in a lifetime are much like snowflakes: Some land in shade and linger with us all winter. Others, nearly identical, hit sunny asphalt and vanish as quickly as they came.
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By PATRICK CONDON MINNETONKA, Minn. - When officials in this Minneapolis suburb didn't like the two eye-popping digital billboards that Clear Channel erected along the freeway, they pulled the plug. They had the power company cut off the electricity.
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By Rene Villegas LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Anti-government protests inBolivia on Tuesday paralyzed two cities and pushed authoritiesto meet a key demand -- the cancellation of a water concessionrun by a foreign company.
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A key road in western London is to have its traffic lights, signs and curbs taken away in an experiment aimed at encouraging drivers to have more consideration for pedestrians.
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By Erika Slife, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 19--DELRAY BEACH -- For drivers motoring down South Congress Avenue, the view is mostly a mishmash of strip malls, industrial complexes and overgrown brush.   For city officials, it's a picture of possibilities.
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SIMIJI, Mali  - A row of shiny new streetlights looks out of place in this sand swept village of conical thatched roofs and mud-brick huts.