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For one refugee family, living in Houston has meant facing a host of new challenges as they traverse the city’s roadways without a car.

February 20 - Texas Monthly

A new study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory evaluates strategies to achieve former Gov. Jerry Brown's goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. Unlike other reports that study emission reductions, it evaluates "negative emissions" strategies.

February 20 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Los Angeles has a parking problem—namely, too much of it—caused by minimum parking requirements.

February 20 - Los Angeles Times

Under the new bill, the Highway Trust Fund would need more funding to get through the next five years.

February 20 - Eno Transportation Weekly

Preferences in the characteristics of communities—from the shape of the built environment to demographics—reveal stark partisan preferences. Planners are faced with the task of navigating ideological divides.

February 20 - Pew Research Center

The potential of form-based codes to re-legalize the historic fabric of Cleveland is explained for the nightly news audience.

February 20 - News 5 Cleveland

Incessant honking just adds to the chaos on city streets, so Mumbai police put up a clever device to remind drivers that making noise will not ease traffic woes.

February 20 - The New York Times

PLANOPEDIA

One of the most controversial powers defined by the Bill of Rights, eminent domain is the term used to describe the government's power to seize private property for public use.

February 19 - James Brasuell

Cities have transformed in profound ways, but more recent changes were the last part of a series of technology waves.

February 19 - Governing

Additional disincentives for driving (i.e., congestion pricing and new parking fees) are on the mayor's agenda in San Francisco.

February 19 - SFGate

SB 50 was often viewed as an attack on wealthy, single-family homeowners, but housing justice advocates also had issues with the legislation.

February 19 - Curbed

FEATURE

A case of mistaken identity has embroiled California in election controversy, as claims of bias and misinformation swirl around Prop 13 (2020), Prop 13 (1978), and an anticipated "split roll" initiative.

February 19 - James Brasuell

Los Angeles may follow in San Francisco’s footsteps by banning cars along a stretch of a downtown thoroughfare.

February 19 - Curbed Los Angeles

Traffic safety initiatives must recognise that all vehicle travel imposes risks, and traffic reduction policies increase safety in addition to other benefits.

February 19 - Action Vision Zero

In Manhattan, a contentious debate has been brewing over on-street parking and how that space could be used for something other than storing cars.

February 19 - Gothamist

Using a wagon filled with phones, an artist in Berlin demonstrated the disconnect between data and the real world.

February 19 - Vice

Littleton, Colorado, home to a population growing beyond 40,000, wants a break from multi-family developments.

February 18 - Littleton Independent

A former housing and urban development secretary and a professor of sociology oppose the Trump administration's proposed changes to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.

February 18 - The New York Times

The program would allow transit agencies throughout the state to eliminate or reduce fares.

February 18 - Greater Greater Washington

Here's your "tl;dr" treatment of the "Urban Planning Trends to Watch in 2020" article published by Planetizen earlier this year.

February 18 - Planetizen Courses on YouTube