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Major developments have been popping up all over Japan's heavily urbanized cities. This piece from <em>The Diplomat</em> looks at what urban future lies ahead for Japan.

November 20 - The Diplomat

A beauty pageant contestant from the crime-ridden Compton, California made famous by 1990s gangster rap is hoping to improve her city's reputation.

November 20 - Los Angeles Times

Two artists have teamed with a favela in Rio de Janeiro to use bright colors to re-frame the slum as a more vibrant area.

November 20 - CNN

The Onion reports on how President Obama's ambitious high-speed rail agenda is being replaced with a plan for high-speed buses that will use existing roads and be outfitted for a fraction of the cost of trains [Video].

November 19 - The Onion

A master-planned town in Quebec built by an American industrialist as a "workingman's utopia" is being touted as a potential UNESCO World Heritage Site.

November 19 - The Globe and Mail

Five years ago, two developers got approval for tax-increment financing (TIF) projects in St. Joseph, Missouri. One was a success, the other a failure. What happened?

November 19 - St. Josephs News-Press

The nonprofit urban planning group SHIFTboston has unveiled the results of their competition to imagine a lunar city that might be feasible by 2069 [slideshow].

November 19 - CNN

The largest bus and transit expo in North America happened this week in Vancouver, and manufacturers showed off the latest in transit technology.

November 19 - The Vancouver Sun

Millions of religious pilgrims travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every year for the Hajj. Officials there have been updating the city to better handle the crowds.

November 19 - NPR

A new center on the campus of Syracuse University is meant to highlight the Rust Belt city's potential -- and to inspire its revitalization.

November 19 - Metropolis

Government Technology and the Center for Digital Government announced the top-ranked municipalities from their 2010 Digital Cities Survey, which quantifies the impacts of cities' IT efforts.

November 18 - Government Technology

Metropolitan Atlanta's main daily newspaper has pinned its hopes for survival on suburbia, decamping from downtown to the city's northern suburbs and in the process shedding its urban identity.

November 18 - Creative Loafing

The California city spent years cultivating an urban forest for shade and cooling benefits, which now presents a unique challenge to tapping the area's solar potential. A new company has a solution.

November 18 - The New York Times

Stephen Smith critiques the new mayor's strategies for fighting congestion in the Russian city.

November 18 - Market Urbanism

Bjorn Lomburg argues that cities should not despair over rising sea levels climate change. Instead, they should adapt.

November 18 - The Washington Post

It's kind of hard to tell, on a day-to-day basis, that humankind is drastically affecting the health of the environment -- a reality that makes arguing for sustainability even more difficult, according to Harry West.

November 18 - Fast Co. Design

The decision to cancel the planned tunnel beneath the Hudson River to connect New York and New Jersey was not without repercussions.

November 18 - The Wall Street Journal

A new high school has opened in East Los Angeles that focuses specifically on urban planning.

November 18 - Metropolis

China is the world's leader in high speed rail, and expects to expand its investment in the transportation infrastructure by more than $100 billion in coming years.

November 18 - NPR

This post from <em>The City Fix</em> looks at various efforts to increase communication between transit riders and transit providers in Chicago.

November 18 - The City Fix