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With the media rightfully pointing to Houston's sprawling urban development patterns that exacerbated the epic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, Paul Krugman also finds fault with cities where urban development is too tightly regulated.

September 5 - The New York Times - Opinion

As the largest commercial property holder int he United States, the federal government's development plans can contribute to the economic and cultural success of communities.

September 5 - Governing

There's an economic cost for making pedestrians wait at stoplights, according to a new study.

September 5 - Aukland Now

The suburban experiment of Clarksburg, Maryland hasn't been totally successful, according to this article, but it still offers many lessons for other communities like it.

September 5 - Greater Greater Washington

Most of the few people that are jumping fares on the New York subway are doing so out of necessity. One branch of the city government has decided that busting fare evaders isn't worth the trouble.

September 5 - Marketplace

While any one event can not be attributed to global warming, climate scientists have long acknowledged a connection to extreme weather. Pruitt, a climate denier, dismisses any such connection with the amount of rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.

September 5 - Talking Points Memo

Uber Movement makes publicly available data for two billion trips taken on the transportation network company. Uber says the data should benefit urban planners.

September 5 - TechCrunch

The author of the "The Rise of the Creative Class" and the "New Urban Crisis" says cities have had their moment.

September 5 - The New York Times

Reports of the death of brick and mortar retail have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new analysis.

September 4 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Protestors are placing their bodies between bike paths and car traffic to make a point about transportation planning.

September 4 - CityLab

Massachusetts officials will consider zoning changes for an area of Boston's waterfront until November—well beyond the expected due date in August.

September 4 - The Boston Globe

As Houston's flood waters recede and attention turns from rescue to recovery and soon rebuilding, critics have pointed to the city's lack of zoning as the cause of the devastation. But are they looking in the right direction?

September 4 - New York Magazine

'Hoodmaps' are here, but the crowdsourcing map tool is attempting to improve on the "Judgmental Maps" that came before.

September 4 - Curbed LA

The 139 Square Miles report attempts to comprehensively report the realities of Detroit, without commentary or critique.

September 3 - Next City

Three big projects are proposed for the neighborhood of South Downtown in Atlanta.

September 3 - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

It doesn't get anymore high profile than the names behind planned projects in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago. The question is whether a new Tiger Woods-designed golf course will be accessible to residents.

September 3 - Chicago Tribune

The Associated Press broke big news yesterday about the scale of the environmental threat facing neighborhoods and communities located near toxic waste sites in Texas.

September 3 - Associated Press

Garden Walk Buffalo began in 1995, and in 2017 it's the largest Garden Walk event in the country.

September 3 - Garden with Diana

Those were the words President Trump expressed before his first trip to Texas while Hurricane Harvey was ravaging Houston. But experts worry that the rebuilding won't be better due to the recision of an Obama-era environmental regulation.

September 2 - NPR

The variables in public transit service have never been so brightly and kinetically illustrated.

September 2 - Mapzen