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January 15 - CommunityMatters

Fusion lists three cities as examples of new immigrants becoming the face of community businesses in neighborhoods needing a boost.

January 14 - Fusion

Signaling Boston's new role in the global real estate market, a new $750 million high-rise began construction this week.

January 14 - The Boston Globe

The Trust for Public land scored a major funding victory in an effort to save 1,000 acres of forest known as The Preserve in Connecticut.

January 14 - The Day

Minneapolis provides evidence of the power of robust bike infrastructure to attract additional bike riders.

January 14 - Minneapolis Star Tribune

In Seattle, a four-legged denizen uses the city's public transit system on her own to get to and from her favorite place.

January 14 - CNN.com

A new web-based tool by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Esri allows users to "explore the ecological tapestry of the world."

January 14 - ASLA The Dirt

The annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board provided an opportunity for Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx to begin to address the changing needs of the nation's transportation system.

January 14 - The Washington Post

Bike Portland reports that a state committee recommended a Eugene bikeshare system as a top priority for a new round of "ConnectOregon" grants.

January 14 - Bike Portland

A Supreme Court hearings less than two weeks away could destroy fair housing as we know it.

January 14 - Rooflines

Transportation readers who prefer reading a less auto-centric perspective of issues will see losses this year, as budgetary constraints at Streetsblog caused the layoff of Tanya Snyder of Streetsblog USA and the temporary loss of Streetsblog Chicago.

January 14 - StreetsBlog NYC

An article by Woodbury University Professor Anthony Fontenot examines the effects of a history of opposition to planning as a centralized arm of the state, and proposes a way forward.

January 13 - Places Journal

Transportation for America has released "The Innovative MPO"—a guidebook of sorts that provides lessons in successful regional planning.

January 13 - Streetsblog USA

A recent study suggests that people consider transit proximity to be more flexible than planners often allow.

January 13 - CityLab

The blogosphere caught wind of a plan from 1912 that would have completely altered the geography of New York City as we know it. Make no little plans, indeed.

January 13 - Gothamist

The heights of the building envelope saw unprecedented expansion in 2014.

January 13 - Dezeen

A lawsuit by the Des Moines water utility could change the way the farming industry mitigates its environmental impacts.

January 13 - Grist

Waste-to-energy plants, or incinerators, are classified as renewable power plants by the EPA. A controversial Baltimore plant is under construction as well. More common in Europe, they may be catching on stateside due to low recycling rates.

January 13 - The New York Times

The Los Angeles media has recently turned their attention to housing, in a city ranked by some measures as the least affordable market in the country.

January 13 - KPCC

After deciding to widen the Autobahn 7 through Hamburg, Germany, local planners also decided cover the highway with parks. The benefits of the plan will include reconnected neighborhoods and noise reduction.

January 13 - Fast Co.Exist