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Austin, Texas OKs Stricter Guidelines For Big-Box Retail
<p>New rules approved by the Austin City Council require that neighbors be notified of proposed big-box development and that a public hearing be held for the project.</p>
Botswanan Bush People Regain Rights To Ancestral Lands
<p>Bushmen have won a long court case against the Botswanan government for illegally removing them from their ancestral lands. The ruling is expected to set a standard for other indigenous people in the protection of their ancestral lands.</p>
Donald Krueckeberg, Leading Voice In Urban Planning, Dies
<p>Krueckeberg influenced a generation of urban planners with his teaching and writing on land use policy, property theory and history.</p>
Some Funds Approved For San Jose BART Extension
<p>Funding issues are compounding the troubles involved in expanding the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) to include San Jose and other areas in Silicon Valley. A recent allocation of funds is keeping the plan moving.</p>
Converting A High School Into Housing
<p>In a creative deal to save a historic structure and also add to the city's desperately needed stock of workforce housing, the school district in Waco, Texas, agreed to sell the old Waco High building to a private developer.</p>
Rain, Rain, Go Away...Naturally
<p>"Low-impact" technologies and natural drainage systems are the latest trend in New Urbanism.</p>
What The Future Holds For Shanghai
<p>Shanghai, already the largest city in China, anticipates a population of 25 million by 2020. A week long series on National Public Radio covers the amazing stories surrounding the city's growth and development.</p>
Bloomberg's New Plan For New York
<p>New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has unveiled a broad plan to re-envision the city. He has recognized three major challenges: a population increase of 1 million residents within 25 years, a crumbling infrastructure, and a need to go green.</p>
A Profile Of Americans, According To The Census
<p>An 'eclectic' portrait of the American people is drawn from over 1,400 tables in the newly-released Census Bureau's 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States.</p>
Urbanizing India And China Look To Build Green
<p>With populations steadily increasing in India and China, the two countries are looking to green building methods to reduce their energy use as they urbanize and move more closely to Western energy consumption patterns.</p>
Leasing Retail Space In Transit-Oriented Developments
<p>Fruitvale Village in Oakland, California, provides a valuable case study for designing and leasing retail space in transit-oriented development projects.</p>
Measuring Detroit's Vital Signs
<p>Model D uses the new CEO's For Cities report to analyze Detroit's strengths (more than you might think) and its weaknesses.</p>
Is Bellevue a New Brooklyn?
<p>Bellevue, Seattle's largest neighboring city, grapples with Robert Lang's categorization of it as a "boomburb" -- having nearly as many foreign born citizens (32%) as New York's Brooklyn neighborhood (38%).</p>
Discussing Tourism, Planning And Sustainability
<p>Michael Romanos, a distinguished professor of planning and economic development at the University of Cincinnati, sits down to talk about this experience working with cities and cultures around the world -- and in his own backyard.</p>
Paris Says No More Clothing Stores On Champs Elysées
<p>The city's commercial planning committee rejected an application from Swedish retailer H&M, saying the famous boulevard -- already home to major clothing retailers -- needs less shops and more cinemas, restaurants and cafes.</p>
Saving A Historic Structure From A Road Widening Project
<p>In Baltimore County, Maryland, historic African-American school building will be moved away from dangerous traffic.</p>
Northern California A Bright Spot For Train Travel
<p>The Captiol Corridor between Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area -- Amtrak's third most popular line -- celebrates its 15-year anniversary and reports growing ridership and rider satisfaction.</p>
Small Towns Removed From Georgia's New Map
<p>The Georgia Department of Transportation is being criticized for eliminating hundreds of small communities from its new official map.</p>
Friday Funny: Carolers Take On Gentrification
<p>A group in Boston's Chinatown has written their own lyrics to some classic Christmas songs to protest the neighborhood's rapid gentrification.</p>
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FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
