Top Ten Planning Issues Of 2003

From congestion charging to Wal-Mart's impact, Planetizen editors outline the top 10 planning issues from 2003.

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March 10, 2004, 8:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


As editors of Planetizen, we review several hundred planning and development news articles, reports, books, studies, and editorials each month. Many of our news articles are contributed by correspondents and readers, and we also track the popularity of each article. This provides us a unique insight into which issues urban planners, developers, and allied professionals consider important. Based on this understanding, we have selected the most important issues from 2003, along with links to some of the more popular or influential stories on each topic.

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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