Greetings Planetizen readers! I'd like to welcome everyone to our new blog -- called Planetizen Interchange. This is our latest effort to provide exposure to new ideas, encourage discourse that cuts across disciplinary boundaries, and bring together allied professionals.
Greetings Planetizen readers! I'd like to welcome everyone to our new blog -- called Planetizen Interchange. This is our latest effort to provide exposure to new ideas, encourage discourse that cuts across disciplinary boundaries, and bring together allied professionals.
For this effort, we've brought together a diverse group of leaders, writers, scholars, and practitioners to regularly contribute their thoughts and opinions on the newest and most exciting ideas, trends and events that span the fields of city planning, architecture, real estate, landscape design and more.
Over the next few weeks, you can look forward reading thought-provoking contributions from the group as we ramp up towards our goal of publishing new posts on a daily basis. In addtion, we plan to continually fresh faces to our group of contributors, to provide valuable new perspectives on the many issues important to the planning, design and development community.
We hope you'll find Interchange a welcomed addition to the regular news on Planetizen. Please feel free to let us know your thoughts by posting a comment, or sending us your comments in an email at [email protected].

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