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What can America's first great immigrant city tell us about placemaking in support of social and spatial belonging?

December 9 - Dean Saitta

Utah finds itself in a unique situation, with money to spend on expanding transit capacity at a time when many transit agencies are plotting layoffs and service reductions.

December 9 - The Salt Lake Tribune

The extreme weather events and sea-level rise of the relatively near future will overwhelm storm and flood infrastructure with startling regularity, according to new research.

December 9 - Earth.com

It's not only mom and pop shops that suffer from over-reliance on online shopping: streets and the environment also suffer the consequences.

December 9 - Streetsblog USA

Drivers are looking at their phones instead of the road in higher shares than ever during the pandemic, according to a recent report.

December 9 - Auto Connected Car News

The United States has a long and insidious history of erecting structures to control the movements of African Americans in urban and suburban spaces.

December 9 - Places Journal

Montgomery County, Maryland wants to put its zoning where its transit is—it's just the latest in a string of transit-oriented land use reforms for the famously suburban county.

December 9 - Bethesda Magazine

The latest edition of the AARP Livability Index reveals the U.S. regions with more of the kinds of neighborhoods that offer quality of life benefits for residents of all ages.

December 9 - Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

The Inclusive Communities Project (ICP) is working to make planning more accessible in the Latino communities of Oak Hill in Dallas.

December 8 - Salud America!

Tony Hsieh, who achieved international fame as head both of Zappos and the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, died in November. Several articles made an account of the Downtown Project's track record.

December 8 - Las Vegas Review-Journal

The California Environmental Quality Act, commonly referred to as CEQA for short, has been influencing planning and development in California for 50 years, creating a constant source of controversy and criticisms from both sides of the debate.

December 8 - California Planning & Development Report

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors recently closed outdoor dining because of a sudden but rapid rise of coronavirus infections in the county.

December 8 - Los Angeles Eater

Amazon is moving more moving more products than ever, and the company is expanding its physical footprint to keep up with the trends.

December 8 - The Boston Globe

One of the highest-profile, and most legally fraught, efforts to beat the competition into the autonomous vehicles market is now defunct.

December 8 - The New York Times

A new plan under development in Montgomery County, Maryland plots a course change for the famously suburban county.

December 8 - Greater Greater Washington

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Planetizen shares the latest in a series of compendia tackling the effects of the pandemic, now and in the future, for cities and communities.

December 8 - James Brasuell

Hawai'i is offering a remote-work program to attract workers from the mainland and help boost the local economy.

December 7 - U.S. News & World Report

The B Line subway includes two stops in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, but other than that, commuter rail and buses are the only options for transit. New light rail plans could change that.

December 7 - The Source

Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued the nation's first stay-at-home order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, issued a new order to prevent hospitals in the nation's most populous state from being overwhelmed with COVID patients.

December 7 - Office of Governor Gavin Newsom

You know what racial equity means, but have you heard of 'experiential equity'? Environmental neuroscientist Robin Mazumder explains the term and how it can inform our understanding of equity in the built environment.

December 7 - City Monitor