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The day after the number of signatories to the Paris Climate Accord met its threshold for implementation, the international community agreed to tackle growing emissions from aviation, which was not covered by the Paris agreement.

October 9 - The New York Times - Science

Neighborhoods achieve significantly more improvements by rehabilitating vacant rowhouses than by introducing new construction.

October 8 - Shelterforce Magazine

The country of French Polynesia is on the verge of permitting a floating city, funded by wealthy Silicon Valley interests and sustained by utopian dreams.

October 8 - Business Insider

Florida discusses a recent study that emphasizes how new the back-to-the-city movement is, how white it is, and what that means for the people it pushes out.

October 8 - CityLab

The office park has become a suburban given, disliked by some, but once it represented a utopian vision of work away from the city. Here's a look at how the Silicon Valley model developed, and where it might be going.

October 8 - SPUR

October 5 was an historic day, hailed President Obama, as nations responsible for emitting more than 55 percent of world carbon emissions have now signed the Paris climate agreement, the threshold needed for the accord to take effect in 30 days.

October 8 - Reuters

A survey of the long history of poetry connected of the urban experience—from the 18th century to the Beat poets of the 20th century and the Hip Hop artists of today.

October 7 - The Guardian

A sales tax resolution to support public transportation is slated for a vote in the Atlanta City Council.

October 7 - Saporta Report

Transit consultant Jarrett Walker argues that Uber's ads betray dark aspirations for the future of transit.

October 7 - Human Transit

These historic sites—be they buildings, districts, or natural landscapes—are closer to destruction than any others in the United States.

October 7 - Next City

AB 2480, recently signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown takes a small but important step toward making better use of natural systems for water management infrastructure.

October 7 - American Rivers

The Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration are considering reforms that would enact a sweeping reform of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).

October 7 - Eno Transportation Weekly

Hydroelectric generation itself doesn’t produce greenhouse gases, but it does rely on the creation of reservoirs that release methane into the air.

October 7 - Crosscut

In an effort to normalize biking and teach kids how to bike safely in the city, Seattle's Cascade Bicycle Club has built a small bike park that simulates road conditions.

October 7 - Bike Portland

The Guardian’s new "Gentrified World" series tackles a fundamental—but tricky—question: How can we measure gentrification?

October 7 - The Guardian

Imagine a built environment that starts from a central location of Scottsdale, Arizona, sprawling outwards until it covers 70 percent of all land on Earth.

October 7 - The Onion

The initial reviews are in for Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to expand and improve Penn Station. The consensus so far: the plan doesn't go far enough.

October 6 - Politico New Jersey

"With this campaign, we’re making clear that zero is the only acceptable number of deaths on our roads."

October 6 - U.S. Department Of Transportation

A landscape architect in Tucson shares a professional lament: intrusive, ugly utilities.

October 6 - ASLA's The Field

Even as rents continue to rise nationally, some of the most expensive cities like San Jose, San Francisco, and New York have seen rents fall this year.

October 6 - The Wall Street Jounal