Destination: Milan
If You Build an Eco-City, Will They Come?
by Joanna Kakissis | 01.14.09 | 2:06 PM ET
Photo by bschmove (Creative Commons). Green is trendy, and the very fashion-minded Milan loves trends. So if all goes as planned, by 2013 a chic, eco-mini-city called Milano Santa Monica will open some seven kilometers outside Milan’s city center in a town called Segrate. If this place actually looks like the computer-generated images on its website, it’s going to be beautiful. Imagine two million square meters of lush green space with well-designed and energy-efficient apartments and shops, and a pedestrian mall with a waterway, parks and lots of trees.
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Yahoo! BuzzMorning Links: Taj to Reopen, ‘The Pervert’s Grand Tour’ and More
by Michael Yessis | 12.16.08 | 9:38 AM ET
- The Taj Hotel, one of the Mumbai sites stormed by terrorists last month, plans to reopen some of its rooms Sunday night.
- Joe Brancatelli writes: “Like it or not, acts of terror aimed at travelers and the places they frequent are very good business tactics indeed.”
- Rome and Milan are now connected by the high-speed Red Arrow train.
- Tony Perrottet continues his Pervert’s Grand Tour at Slate. “Sex,” he writes, “Sex has always been the unspoken inspiration for travel.”
- Delta adds WiFi to some East Coast shuttle flights. The airline says it will make its entire fleet wireless by the middle of next year.
- Robbie Knievel will jump the volcano at the Mirage in Las Vegas on his motorcycle on New Year’s Eve. I’ve been to Vegas on New Year’s Eve. This will not be the craziest thing that happens that night.
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