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Birmingham, Alabama is creating a new system of open markets that will bring fresh foods as well as more social space for the city's residents.

March 11 - Project For Public Spaces

Architects and planners in New Delhi are collaborating to create three new visions of the city, all based around the concept of sustainability.

March 11 - Frontline

Americans have shunned the "McMansion" for smaller, more appropriately proportioned homes, a trend which has benefited from the economic recession.

March 10 - ecohome

Several factors are leading to the end of commercial strip development while simultaneously leading to more and more town centers and mixed-use facilities.

March 10 - UrbanLand

The next frontier in urban planning could be in building "smart infrastructure" for cities in partnership with multinational high-tech firms.

March 10 - The Globe and Mail

The Indian state of Maharashtra has proposed new rules that would require developers to reserve 35% of new units for low and middle-income families.

March 10 - Affordable Housing Legislation May Come to Mumbai

A new book of photography compares the legacies of two modernist cities: Brasilia and Chandigarh.

March 10 - Azure

Drastic flooding inundated Queensland, Australia, and damaged many of the city's buildings. As recovery begins, some are rethinking the city's development patterns.

March 10 - Architectural Record

A huge mall in China -- the largest in the world -- has just a 1% occupancy rate.

March 10 - Gadling

Neighbors across the country are clashing over whether or not to build sidewalks in their neighborhoods.

March 10 - The Wall Street Journal

Critics in Toronto are blasting a new transit plan from Mayor Rob Ford that they say overlooks the city's suburban areas.

March 10 - The Toronto Star

Homes located near transit stops are more energy efficient than homes classified "energy efficient", according to a new study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

March 10 - USA Today

WebUrbanist.com has identified 11 of the most interesting modern urban rooftops in the world.

March 9 - Web Urbanist

An event held at The Brookings Institution invited transit experts to discuss the lessons learned from BRT systems in Latin America and their applicability in the United States.

March 9 - Sustainable Cities Collective

NYC is reusing materials from a construction site in Queens to redesign the area's streetscape with pedestrian safety in mind.

March 9 - THE DIRT

Despite what seemed to be a drained post-industrial condition in the 1970s, Seattle has been growing. This post looks into why.

March 9 - The New York Times

The Chinese megacity of Chongqing has announced plans to install a half a million surveillance cameras by 2012.

March 9 - Agence France Presse

With high development occurring in India, new mapping technologies can greatly help smart growth in the burgeoning country.

March 9 - The Wall Street Journal

Cities in California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada that were "sunburnt" by the economic recession need to smartly manage their future growth.

March 9 - USA Today

BLOG POST

<p class="MsoNormal">A few weeks ago the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) released its latest <a href="http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/media_information/press_release.stm">Urban Mobility Report</a>, and yesterday INRIX released its <a href="http://scorecard.inrix.com/scorecard/">National Traffic Scorecard 2010 Annual Report</a>. Both paint a grim picture of roadway conditions.</p><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px"> <p class="MsoNormal"> “America is back on the road to gridlock,” warns INRIX. </p>

March 9 - Todd Litman