Top Ten Fake Futures Most Likely to Destroy Planning As We Know It

The following is a list things that are never going to happen, because if they did, urban planning as we know it would cease to exist.

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April 1, 2014, 2:00 PM PDT

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell


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1. Millennials: The McMansion Generation 
2. High Line Demolition Begins Thursday 
3. The High Cost of Free Sunday Church Parking
4. NIMBYs Granted NATO Protection
5. Putting the LOS Back in CEQA
6. Agenda 21 Times 100
7. Voice Media Group Buys the New York Times Company
8. Utopia Achieved: Everything is OK Now
9. Andrés Duany: Inventor of Adjective Urbanism
10. Google's Driverless Car Breaks the Sound Barrier

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