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Companies offering new telecom services say they're having trouble reaching many potential customers. They say landlords limit which firms can put equipment into office buildings and apartments, and that deprives tenants of the new services. Landlords say they need to protect their property and that older buildings have limited space available. Landlords collect fees from companies that install equipment. The FCC will soon decide whether landlords have to allow open access to their buildings. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.

Seven places have been added to the honorary listing, which encourages the protection of buildings and architecture important to state history.

The Folk Show's listing of music and dance events in and around our listening area.

The Folk Show's listing of shows, coffeehouses, festivals and dances in our listening area and beyond.

On a recent visit, NPR journalists witnessed a country in transformation that was at turns impressive, surreal, beautiful, melancholy and human. Still, its leaders retain tight control over society.

A 2,000-foot tower, proposed by developer Christopher Carley and designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, would rise above the lakefront... and give Chicago the nation's two tallest buildings.

After an earthquake devastated southern Turkey, the mayor of faraway Istanbul warned that some 90,000 buildings could collapse if a quake hits there.

The 2,073-foot-tall Shanghai Tower, the world's second-tallest building, opens this year. More than just a skyscraper, it's a symbol of Shanghai's — and China's — soaring ambitions.

Daniel talks with Richard Krimm, Associate Director for Mitigation at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about how communities can reduce the damage caused by floods. His agency favors the "non-structural" approach to flood plain management. Krimm says that levees give people a false sense of security - levees often overflow. Rather than build more levees, he suggests building houses that can withstand floods or not building on flood plains at all. He says federal regulations and insurance requirements eventually will force people to comply with these suggestions

After the attacks that felled the twin towers, many said it was the end of an era for skyscrapers. But 1 World Trade Center has now surpassed the Empire State Building as New York's tallest. David Childs, architect and designer of the new tower, discusses why we're so fascinated by tall buildings.