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FEATURE

Jeff Speck offers advice -- in the form ten City Design Resolutions -- for city mayors who want to build better places.

January 10 - Jeff Speck

BLOG POST

<td>Take a planning challenge, add some technology and a pinch of public process, mix them just the right, and you have a recipe for good decision making. Orlando County Florida is cooking up such an event- and planners, practitioners, academics and members from all communities will be interested in watching their progress. <br><br /> <br><br /> Orlando Florida is embarking on a year-long initiative to address economic, environmental, land use, and transportation needs for a 90,000-acre study area in southeast Orange County.

January 9 - Ken Snyder

New York in the 1970's was a chaotic and 'gritty' place to live. But it was also perhaps the most creative time the city ever experienced.

January 9 - Wall St. Journal

A 40-percent decline in teen births since 1991 has reduced problems of poverty in Baltimore.

January 9 - The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore's public housing has been segregated since the 1930s, leading to concentrations of poverty in the inner city.

January 9 - The Baltimore Sun

Shutters could be more than quaint decorations on American homes in the 21st century.

January 9 - The Washington Post

Organizers of the L.A. Auto Show challenge designers to come up with the "perfect L.A. car."

January 9 - The Los Angeles Times

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the 2005 recipients of the AIA Honor Awards.

January 8 - The American Institute of Architects

A group of investors is betting $220 million on a new Harlem renaissance, in the form of a new office, hotel and retail complex.

January 8 - The Slatin Report

The explosion of the clean fuel vehicle market in Washington has caused heaches for carpoolers.

January 8 - The Washington Post

Have MPOs undertaken actions consistent with environmental justice andtransportation equity mandates?

January 8 - Metropolitan Institute At Virginia Tech

County uses new state laws to redevelop abandoned properties

January 8 - Michigan Land Use Institute

Proposal would allow Seattle downtown buildings to be taller in an effort to increase density, attract jobs, and curb sprawl.

January 7 - The Seattle Times

Low mortgage costs and high home prices have launched a rash of condo conversions--a new trend that's bound to continue.

January 7 - REIS

Why did a group of young men attack an upscale sub-division? Investigators encountered a puzzling scenario.

January 7 - The New York Times

Many 'Boomburbs,' or large fast-growing suburbs, are nearing their buildout, argues Robert E. Lang.

January 7 - Metropolitan Institute At Virginia Tech

EPA Inspector General's reports stir up political storms.

January 7 - The Washington Post

California's transportation program is in crisis and on the verge of collapse", according to the California Transportation Commission's annual report.

January 7 - The Oakland Tribune

Even as it slows down from rapid growth in 2004, the economy of the Washington D.C. area will expand faster than the rest of the nation.

January 7 - The Washington Post

Ecologically-sensitive design, building and decorating has entered the mainstream development community -- in some places.

January 7 - The Los Angeles Times