The "median" planner is 42 years old, has been in the field for 13 years, specializes in community development and redevelopment, and earns $64,000. States with highest salaries are D.C., California and New Jersey.
May 11, 2006 American Planning Association
While so far only a "white-collar movement," the growing trend of biking to work is leading many cities to provide new amenities to bike commuters, and the federal government to propose employer tax breaks for each employee cycling to work.
May 11, 2006 The Wall Street Journal
Since 1975, environmentalists and their allies have fought to raise fuel efficiency standards in new vehicles. On Tuesday, another attempt was made. Meanwhile, an academic think tank testifies for an alternative approach, albeit an unpopular one.
May 11, 2006 The San Francisco Chronicle
How a $10 gallon of gas would revolutionize life in America.
May 11, 2006 The San Francisco Chronicle
Latino population growth accounted for nearly half of the nation's population increase last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today. But growth is is led by births, not immigration.
May 10, 2006 The Los Angeles Times
Jane Jacobs brilliantly dissected the destruction of "inner areas" of "great cities," but she passed over the city districts that needed attention the most: less dense working and middle class neighborhoods, the ones that emptied out for the suburbs.
May 10, 2006 The Santa Monica Lookout
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson tells a minority real estate forum that prospective contractors should keep their political views to themselves.
May 10, 2006 Dallas Business Journal
Editorial argues that wind energy is viable and a necessary part of the nation's energy strategy.
May 9, 2006 Austin American-Statesman
Bucking a decades-old trend of steering the elderly toward nursing homes to live out their sunset years, many communities are developing programs to assist older residents who want to remain in their own houses.
May 9, 2006 The Wall Street Journal
When each interstate exit sign passed can mean saving ten thousand dollars in home prices, more and more people are "driving till they qualify". Welcome to the world of "extreme commuting".
May 9, 2006 Newsweek
