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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

FEATURE

The latest edition of Planetizen's annual list of songs about places, for all the audiophiles with a passion for place.

December 7 - James Brasuell

Pedestrian improvements are planned as an economic development opportunity in one of the most pedestrian-friendly places in the entire country—the French Quarter of New Orleans.

December 7 - WDSU

A new initiative designed to implement the goals of the One Atlanta Housing Affordability Action Plan was announced last week in Atlanta.

December 7 - The Atlanta Voice

New York is still a place of bold architecture.

December 7 - 6sqft

The market is ready for carbon-neutral companies to redefine global reliance on natural gas. But not all clean energy producers are carbon-neutral.

December 6 - Quartz

The dream of high-quality, zero-emission transit in all large U.S. cities is possible.

December 6 - Urban Institute

The city of Fort Worth is moving to a site formerly occupied by the headquarters of Pier 1.

December 6 - CBS DFW

The beta version of a comprehensive new evidence-based platform called Streetsmart helps policy makers, planners, and advocates make the case for healthy, inclusive, and sustainable transportation investments.

December 6 - Streetsmart

A new study connects evictions to the spread of the coronavirus. Evictions continued in huge numbers during the pandemic despite a patchwork of eviction protections at multiple layers of government.

December 4 - Curbed

Bethesda and Tysons, in Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, respectively, look like neighbors on a map, but they lack a direct transit route. That could change.

December 4 - Greater Greater Washington

New zoning controls would make it harder to convert multi-unit residential buildings into single-family homes to prevent displacement in single-family neighborhoods in Chicago.

December 4 - The Daily Line

Most museums are closed during the pandemic, but you can still visit them virtually from the comfort of your home thanks to Google Arts & Culture.

December 4 - Travel + Leisure

Coronavirus infections, while at record-high levels, have decreased during the past week, unlike hospitalizations, which are still surging. Public health experts expect it to get a lot worse due to the Thanksgiving holiday travel.

December 3 - Bloomberg News

Low-income Alabama residents who can't afford the cost of a functional septic tank run the risk of heavy fines and even arrest in addition to extremely unsafe conditions.

December 3 - The New Yorker

The new law won't stop the forces of gentrification, but it should stop one of gentrification's most pernicious symptoms.

December 3 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

2021 will be a big year for planning on the Interstate Bridge Replacement project, née Columbia River Crossing, that will connect Washington and Oregon across the Columbia River.

December 3 - The Urbanist