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Advocates have reason to be concerned about the performance of the two newest streetcar lines in New Orleans—both the largest transit projects after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina.

August 11 - The Times-Picayune

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August 11 - The Guardian

National organizations are mobilizing around housing as a human right.

August 11 - Right to the City

Educators in Washington, D.C. are expanding on the "Safety Town" concept to teach grade schoolers how to be safe in traffic as well as about street design and the merits of different kinds of streets.

August 11 - Greater Greater Washington

A powerful lobby is more in interested in protecting its monopoly than lessening congestion and pollution.

August 11 - Quartz

The Project NYC Subway is a transit and map lover's dream. The newest update to the project take the concept a step further.

August 11 - CityLab

Salt Lake City has an ambitious transit master plan on the table. Now the funding is necessary to back up that ambition.

August 11 - The Salt Lake Tribune

New research published in Applied Geography is a first step toward planning for the resilience of vulnerable populations as the heat rises in urban areas.

August 11 - Scientific American

A new voice in the wilderness of YouTube: the War on Cars.

August 11 - CityLab

The Twin Cities provide a case study for the role of the housing market in regional employment markets.

August 10 - Urban Land Magazine

Neighborhood groups in the Mission District of San Francisco, already a hotbed of gentrification and displacement controversies, are opposing the expansion of the city's bikeshare system into a large, transit-adjacent area of the city.

August 10 - San Francisco Examiner

Mayor Ted Winterer and Mayor Pro Tem Gleam Davis elaborate on the city’s new Downtown Community Plan, which includes what may be the state's highest inclusionary housing requirement.

August 10 - The Planning Report

Purchased for $5 million, Nipton, California is slated to become "the country’s first energy-independent, cannabis-friendly hospitality destination."

August 10 - Quartz

Scientist are concerned that a congressionally mandated climate assessment, originally authorized under President George H.W. Bush, may not be released by the Trump Administration because it contradicts their rejection of climate science.

August 10 - The New York Times

In addition to a contemporary vision for Downtown, the plan debuts a new approach to zoning that could help transform the entire city.

August 10 - The Planning Report

By any measure, Seattle is growing at a breakneck pace. But with those new residents come cars, and all the infrastructure and land use inefficiencies they bring.

August 10 - The Seattle Times

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August 10 - BikePortland

An analysis of trends in energy-efficiency improvements reveals the success of policies enacted during the previous decades.

August 10 - Harvard Center for Joint Housing Studies

There are two fundamental flaws with the emergent "YIMBY" approach to planning and development politics, according to this article in an influential magazine of the American left.

August 10 - Jacobin

Dallas has ended decades of debate about a highway project proposed to run along the Trinity River.

August 9 - Dallas Observer