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March 2 - The Fresno Bee

Jefferson County, Colorado, an outdoor recreation paradise located between Denver and the Front Range, will begin allowing electric-assist bikes (e-bikes) on its trails.

March 2 - The Denver Post

Climate change and coastal development are combining to stamp out important ecological landscapes.

March 2 - KPCC

Good IT is critical to good customer service, as anyone who has ever worked a counter in knows.

March 2 - Smart Cities Plan

An op-ed raises a damaging point to counter the California-style progressivism that opposes new housing development: "local control is actually bedrock conservatism."

March 2 - East Bay Express

A small grant with big meaning for the city of Chamblee.

March 2 - Curbed Atlanta

Jon Christensen urges Los Angeles to ensure that new park amenities serve, rather than displace, the river's low-income communities.

March 2 - CityLab

Unlike banning sales of new internal combustion vehicles at a future date, the German court ruling applies to the operation of older, diesel-powered cars in the country's most polluted cities. It's up to the cities, though, to enact the bans.

March 2 - The New York Times

In an unsettling distillation of the broader housing market, the lot's price rose by $2.3 million in under two years.

March 2 - Sacramento Bee

It's a free online video game, in retro 8-bit style. What could go wrong?

March 2 - Bloomberg

In places like San Jose, "new approaches to the storefront" are paying dividends for physical retailers willing to experiment.

March 1 - SPUR

A flurry of air rights purchases have already begun as large property owners take advantage of Midtown East's upzoning. Some big names include JPMorgan Chase and the Archdiocese of New York.

March 1 - Crain's New York Business

Taking cues from the Trump Administration's recently-released infrastructure plan, the government intends to use a public-private partnership model to take on social challenges.

March 1 - CityLab

Allison Arieff finds fault with the nation's uninspired conversation on infrastructure. When urban design projects have more emotional appeal, she argues, they can unify rather than divide.

March 1 - The New York Times

The state of Oregon is already tinkering with a bike tax it approved last year.

March 1 - Bike Portland

Ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games, Los Angeles is rallying around infrastructure buildout and technological advancement.

March 1 - The Planning Report

All planners encounter passionate obstructionist activity at some point. While the reasoning for anti-development is often discussed, it's still not a widely understood force in the planning process and the evolution of cities.

March 1 - UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate

Despite the impression that young white people have reshaped cities' demographics, research shows that non-white Millennials account for the greater part of that growth.

March 1 - Brookings

It's great that the New York MTA is overhauling its fare system and doing away with the MetroCard, but there's so much more potential to realize.

March 1 - AM New York

Can zoning be optimized with the help of machine learning algorithms to deliver the greatest possible good?

March 1 - TechCrunch