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When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?
Meeting data center power demands will mean building more transmission lines and acquiring more land to put them on.
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When churches become builders: New data chronicles the rise of the YIGBY movement
More and more churches want to use their land to build affordable housing. The public sector can help.
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What’s next for New York’s historic preservation movement?
More than a quarter of lots in Manhattan are protected by the city's Landmarks Law. That’s both a triumph and a challenge.
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Are cities at risk of losing squirrels?
Book review: A common backyard forager could be in decline, but without the proper data we may not know until it’s too late. Nancy Castaldo’s "Squirrel" urges us to find out.
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Planning for Love, Part 2: What happens to dating in a car-centric world?
A survey of over 150 adults about their dating lives reveals stark differences based on their neighborhood's walkability.
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Copenhagen is losing its cool
In a city long designed to maximize light during dark Scandinavian winters, climate change is forcing the Danish capital to rethink its relationship with the sun.
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Landscapes of love and loss
As urban planners, every piece of infrastructure we build is a memorial — whether we know it or not.
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Wealthy thinking in an economically polarized world
When protecting property values is the main goal of zoning, equity suffers.
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AI promises to finally make public engagement meaningful. We put it to the test.
Everything you need to know about how we analyzed the 13,000+ comments submitted in the federal government’s request for information on Surface Transportation Reauthorization — and how you can do it in your own agency’s public engagement.
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😈 The corruption track: Understanding power in a time of political sepsis
After nearly a decade working in urban planning, I've surmised that power, more than policy, lies at the heart of our deepest planning dysfunctions. Let's talk about it.
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Book review: Co-ops, commons and the conundrum of cashing in on the American dream
Jonathan Tarleton’s "Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons" shows what happens when a loophole in housing legislation opens the door to the privatization of a common good — and when an affordable home suddenly becomes a commodity.
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Planning for Love, Part 1: The link between urban form and dating
A brief exploration of dating through history highlights how the spaces in which we live and move shape our social lives and relationships.
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A planner's guide to AI prompting: Getting from vague to valuable
What you ask AI matters as much as which AI you use. Understanding effective prompt engineering can help you ask better questions.
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Land use as protest: How American cities are fighting federal immigration detention centers
Across the country, city officials are using zoning codes and land use law to limit where ICE detention facilities can be built.
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The cities resisting rainbow bans
When the Trump administration went after colorful crosswalk treatments, some cities found creative ways to fight back.
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Fisticuffs: The argument FOR fare-free transit
When the barrier to entry drops to zero, magic can happen.
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Fisticuffs: The argument AGAINST fare-free transit
If a terrible bus becomes free, will it truly free you?
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The "vicious cycle of real estate mania" — and how we might find our way home
Book review: In "The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances," Kevin Fagan humanizes the housing crisis like never before.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
