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Planetizen Week in Review: August 1, 2016
Political junkies, map nerds, and transit fans all got plenty of big news to digest during the last week of July 2016.
Welcome to the what seems like the first week in years without a national political convention for the national media to obsess over. This edition of the Planetizen Week in Review takes a look at the planning-related policy directives emerging from the Democratic National Convention, good transit news from Denver, bad transit news from New York City, an aggressive response to Vancouver, British Columbia's soaring housing costs, and a subtle change to Google Maps that got big reactions from all of us paying attention.
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Published on Monday, August 1, 2016 in
Topics
- Urban Planning Trends to Watch in 2020
- 'Guardian Cities' Calls it Quits
- Wetlands Bring New Life to the Salton Sea
- The Rent Gap Theory
- 'Missing Middle Housing Act' Would Allow More Housing Options in Nebraska Residential Areas
- The Best-Selling Master Planned Communities of 2019
- When Cities Are Designed for Driving, Car Bans Are Not the Solution
- Details of Austin's Big 'Project Connect' Transit Plan Emerge
- The City as a Self-Organizing, Adaptive System – Part 2
- Opinion: No to the Oakland A's Stadium Project
- Mapping the Land Uses of the United States
- Houston Will Not Be a Fare-Free Transit City
- Parks of Inclusion
- Cuomo's LaGuardia AirTrain Plan has a High-Profile Skeptic
- Oregon Could Trim Opportunity Zones Tax Break
- 'A Strange, Second-Wave Gentrification' in San Francisco
- Positive Thinking for the Environment
- Restricting Floodplain Development in the Nation's Capital
- Report Explores Future of Seattle Interbay Armory Site
- Wyoming Legislation Would Add Tolls to Interstate 80
