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Is commuting Deplorable? Can we Make Commuting Great Again? It is sometimes necessary to resort to hyperbole to draw attention to real data.
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Discovering secret geography -- the alleys and small streets, often with shops and restaurants, that are largely invisible from major streets -- you begin to feel ownership over a slice of the city.
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41 principles for architects to live by.
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In a car crazy culture, a planner decides to make the switch to transit.
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Cities would do better to loosen prescriptive zoning codes and give more flexibility to developers.
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While the founders of New Urbanism are still going strong, a new organization is connecting the next generation of leaders of the movement.
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The recent blackout highlights the vulnerability of dense cities, as unplugged urban rail systems and elevators left thousands of urbanites stranded.
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Building an integrated transportation system in the United States would be a real economic stimulus and increase mobility and security.
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Affordable and user-friendly technology could provide an exciting new platform for discussing planning and development issues.
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Is the threat of terrorism a good reason for pouring resources into our nation's passenger rail system?
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Smart Growth advocates' vision of the future of urban development is more like a nightmare for the average citizen.
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Sprawl is reaching military installations and threatening the nation's defense capabilities.
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A project manager gives a real-world account of the successes and failures of one of the nation's most closely watched new transit-oriented communities, and its role in the regional growth management strategy.
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California's Proposition 13 -- a citizen anti-tax initiative -- has turned out to be the most important planning law in the state.
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Planning for reconstruction and rebuilding in places like Iraq is neglected by the planning profession.
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While the Urban Transect promotes the city's coherence with respect to density and massing quite well, it does not promote a coherence with respect to the appearance of buildings.
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As cities and states across the U.S. strive to find solutions to the sprawling pattern of land development, promising control measures have been met head-on by one recurring and controversial issue -- land owner equity.
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The following debate, which took place recently on The Practice of New Urbanism listserv, explores the potential of using market-oriented approaches, rather than more public policy, to furt
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New Urbanism would do well distance itself from the smart growth agenda of restrictive land-use controls, and gain greater public acceptance by positioning itself as market-oriented with respect for personal freedoms.
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If the majority of America's parks aren't going to stagnate, they're going to need to learn from those parks that are getting it right.
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Is Anaheim the New Brooklyn? With no soaring skyline or grand public spaces, Anaheim and similar "Boomburbs" are the ubiquitous background noise of the greater metropolis.
