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Car-Free Days Flood London With Pedestrians -- And Commerce
<p>Temporarily pedestrianized streets in London brought nearly a million people out for a day of walking and shopping recently, resulting in more than $200 million worth of sales.</p>
Walls Create Safety, Segregation In Baghdad
<p>More and more walls are rising in Baghdad neighborhoods, giving areas a calmer, safer feel. But the walls also create a prison-like atmosphere and many residents are conflicted about the tradeoff.</p>
Is This Liquor Store An Amenity Or A Nuisance?
<p>In a gentrifying neighborhood in Washington D.C., residents are campaigning against a local liquor store they say encourages littering and public drunkenness. But longtime neighborhood residents defend the store, calling it a neighborhood staple.</p>
Small Towns Look To Keep Young Professionals By Increasing Affordable Housing
<p>County officials in New York are looking to award more than $87 million to small towns to increase their stock of affordable housing -- an effort aimed at luring and keeping young professionals. But opposition to this development type is a hurdle.</p>
Universal Sanitation Far Off In Brazil
<p>At the current rate of infrastructure spending for sewer construction and other sanitation measures, there won't be universal access to sanitation in Brazil fore more than 115 years.</p>
Development And Logging To Blame In Flood
<p>Devastating floods in the southern Washington community of Chehalis have many tracing the roots of the problem back to clear-cut logging and a long pattern of unchecked floodplain development.</p>
Selling The Garden City That Isn't A Garden City
<p>This article from the <em>Warsaw Business Journal</em> looks at how the concept of the Garden City is gladly embraced by developers to market their housing projects, but rarely are its design characteristics included in the actual development.</p>
States Dependent On Colorado River Water Agree On Plan
<p>The seven western states dependent on the Colorado River for their water are on the verge of coming to an agreement on a management plan to ensure a steady supply of water from the increasingly stressed source. But some say the plan won't do enough.</p>
Boston Trains Run Cheaper But Late
<p>A report by <em>The Boston Globe</em> finds that the Boston area transit system costs less to operate than other major American transit systems -- but it has one of the worst on-time arrival performances in the nation.</p>
National Heritage Areas In Center of Property Rights Debate
<p>With more and more land receiving federal protection as National Heritage Areas, property rights activists are butting heads with the preservationists they say are taking rights away from landowners.</p>
Is A Subway System Possible In Kansas City?
<p>The city may consider a heavy rail subway system after overturning a light rail ballot initiative.</p>
BLOG POST
Airports as a Brake on Global City Growth
<p> It seems that global cities across the world are running up against an unforeseen brake on their future growth - airport and airspace congestion. </p>
New Orleans To Slash Low Income Housing
<p>Plans to demolish low income housing and remove FEMA trailers are putting the poor of New Orleans in a tight spot.</p>
Four Options For Ranking Urban Planning Programs
<p>UCLA urban planning professor Randall Crane offers his observations on the four options that planning schools have for helping applicants decide to which schools they should apply and attend.</p>
FEATURE
Small Cities, Big Challenges
Lessons From America's Most Ambitious Infrastructure Project
<p>The City Journal examines lessons from Boston's 35-year, $14.8 billion Big Dig project and asks how can American invest in infrastructure -- and do it intelligently?</p>
Report Says Growth Management Plans Make Housing Unaffordable
<p>In this new report from the Cato Institute, Randal O'Toole writes that regional growth management plans make housing unaffordable and that states with these laws should repeal them.</p>
Green Housing Meets Low Income
<p>This article from <em>Utne Reader</em> looks at a green housing complex that aimed at an atypical market: low-income residents.</p>
Munich: A Marvel Of Smart Growth and Urban Planning
<p>Urban planners and developers in the Western United States could learn a lot from Munich, Germany, argues one online commentator.</p>
BLOG POST
Considering a Smart Growth President
<p>It's often said that in America, urban development issues are decided at the local level. In general the rule of thumb is accurate, explaining a country home to cities as different in form as Houston, Texas and San Francisco, California. The notable exception to the rule is the country's interstate highway system, build with extensive involvement of the federal government. However, under closer inspection we can find a number of areas where federal funding and policies has a strong impact on urban development. A survey of what the leading presidential candidates are saying about urban policy suggests what priorities our next president may have.</p>
Caltrans
City of Fort Worth
Mpact (founded as Rail~Volution)
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
City of Portland
City of Laramie
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