Government / Politics
The Country's Largest Eminent Domain Seizure?
A small Florida town is the center of another eminent domain controversy -- one that could displace nearly 20 percent of its population.
Contractor Loses HUD Deal Over Views On Bush
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson tells a minority real estate forum that prospective contractors should keep their political views to themselves.
NY Gubernatorial Candidate Picks Transportation Project Priorities
Democratic candidate and NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer recently detailed his transportation priorities, including a Second Avenue subway, LIRR connection to Grand Central, and Tappan Zee Bridge replacement.
States Take Action To Protect Property Rights
Oregon's Measure 37 has inspired a national property rights movement to restrict local regulatory takings and dramatically reduce eminent domain powers, writes Leonard Gilroy, AICP, in this Op-Ed.
Largest Infrastructure Bond Ever Heading To California Voters
Headed to the governor, then the voters, November ballot is the largest bond issue ever -- four bonds totaling $37.3 billion, consisting of billions for transportation, schools, levees, and affordable housing.
Displacement And Discrimination: The Politics Of Re-Housing New Orleans' Poor
Despite a Senate report that recommended FEMA be dismantled and replaced, the troubled agency is still "holding the purse strings" on recovery in New Orleans, and tens of thousands of residents may be cut off from rental assistance monies next month.
India's Widening Infrastructure Deficit
Private developers in India have recently done very well, but has the government kept pace? The Narmada Dam dispute highlights the enduring shortcomings in the government's ability to facilitate fair and sustainable development.
World's Biggest Embassy Will Be Visible From Space
While most aspects of the American reconstruction in Iraq is either behind schedule, over budget, or under investigation for fraud, the United States is building a massive "city within a city", an embassy so large it will be visible from space.
New York's Mayor Bloomberg Supports Eminent Domain
Mayor Bloomberg warns that without the power of eminent domain, New York City could lose millions in private investment and thousands of jobs.
New Orleans To Receive Millions In Government Aid -- From Qatar
Several prominent institutions in New Orleans are to benefit from the generosity of Qatar and other Persian Gulf States.
Designing For Security: Post 9/11 Architecture and Planning
How has American architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning responded to the need to design secure public spaces and buildings in the post-9/11 era?
Bringing New Urbanism To New Orleans
To fund a week-long charrette with over 40 architects, planners, and engineers, New Urbanism founder Andres Duany chipped in $150,000 of his own money. As a result, one neighborhood is much further along in the planning process than its counterparts.
A Strategy That Works To Reduce Gasoline Consumption
Columnist John Tierney takes a bipartisan swipe at federal responses to $3 gallon gasoline. He suggests a "revenue-neutral gas tax" whereby the tax paid at the pump would be returned to the taxpayers as "something that works".
Canada Throws Out Kyoto, Turns To 'Made in Canada' Approach
Canada's new Conservative government tabled its budget yesterday, and with it reversed the previous government's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol.
The Elephant in the Green Room
Grist interviews retiring Republican environmental leader Sherwood Boehlert.
Nation's Energy Policy Is 'Stuck In Neutral'
Both political parties are to blame for the nation's energy crisis, writes Ronald Brownstein.
Civil Rights Activist And Los Angeles Planner Chi Mui Dies
Mui, only 53, was one of the few first-generation Chinese Americans to successfully run for political office, becoming mayor of San Gabriel in 2003. He also worked for a number of Southern California community groups on civil rights and other issues.
Four Californias? An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
A columnist who has advocated for the division of California into several states takes the idea a step further, examining potential political and demographic conditions as he divides California into fourths.
Put Your Gas Where Your Mouth Is?
Plenty of senators are criticizing America's addiction to oil and the need for greater fuel efficiency, yet what are they driving?
Who Pays the Property Tax?
A critical aspect of the property tax, but one that is rarely addressed in public debate, is its 'economic incidence,' or who actually bears the burden of the tax, as opposed to its statutory incidence, or who literally pays the tax.
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.
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