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A new book explains why people object to new housing in their neighborhoods, and whether these "neighborhood defenders" are representative of the public as a whole.

August 3 - Michael Lewyn

The Vermont State Senate voted unanimously to approve legislation that would reduce barriers to more compact residential development. The Vermont House of Representatives is up next.

August 3 - CNU Public Square

A new report explores the untapped housing opportunities for the region around New York City, and suggests planning tools for adding hundreds of thousands of housing units without building hundreds of thousands of new buildings.

August 3 - Regional Plan Association

A pair of articles from the Twin Cities, revealing the racist motivations of exclusionary zoning.

August 2 - Rewire

A southwest Ohio city is updating its development code in response to a desire in the community to better protect the city's existing communities.

August 2 - Dayton Business Journal

A step toward an overhaul of the way speed is managed on city streets around the country.

August 2 - Smart Cities Dive

Vision 2030 will update the award winning Vision 2020 New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan.

August 2 - NYC Planning

PLANOPEDIA

Urban planning is the most common term used in the contemporary United States to describe the professional and academic field of planning, but understanding the implications of the term requires a discussion about the history of the word urban and the changing politics of planning.

July 31 - James Brasuell

PLANOPEDIA

Euclidean zoning is responsible for the sprawling, suburban character of much of the built environment in the United States.

July 31 - James Brasuell

A grim warning was issued by the non-profit group that represents America's medical schools and teaching hospitals: if the nation doesn't change its response to the pandemic, "Multiples of hundreds of thousands" of additional deaths may occur.

July 31 - CNN

Early in the pandemic, bike sales soared and vehicle miles traveled plummeted. As people have been driving more, more people have also been infected with the novel coronavirus.

July 31 - Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Improved air quality can help achieve equitable economic growth, according to Chicago's newly announced Air Quality Agenda.

July 31 - Smart Cities Dive

Fake news site The Onion imagines the logical result of car-centric planning during a pandemic.

July 31 - The Onion

A new twist on the contemporary corruption scandal.

July 30 - The Denver Post

Some high-profile projects, including a 77-story tower, hang in the balance of a federal corruption case, but it's unclear whether Los Angeles can undo the approvals, whether they were achieved through bribes or not.

July 30 - Los Angeles Times

Minnesota utility company Xcel Energy plans to close four coal plants by 2030 and fully switch to renewable energy sources by 2050.

July 30 - MinnPost

Now is the time to invest in public transit as the correct coronavirus pandemic transportation solution.

July 30 - The World Bank

Shelterforce spoke with researchers, advocates, lawyers, housing economists, and rental housing industry representatives to understand what that crisis would do to evicted families, public health, and the housing market.

July 30 - Shelterforce Magazine

Designers have gone back to the drawing board to keep proposals moving through the development pipeline in light of lessons from the pandemic.

July 30 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

New Orleans is attempting a "major paradigm shift" in marrying land use control with economic development goals.

July 30 - The Lens