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Leadership in Urban Planning, After Two Successful Stints as a Planning Director

Peter Park is the director of Peter J. Park, LLC and a former planning director of Denver and Milwaukee. In this interview, Park shares insights from a career of leadership in though and action in the field of urban planning.

James Brasuell

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Why the Poor Cannot Move: It's Not Just the (Official) Rent

A discussion of the book Evicted, and in particular its suggestion that rent in poor neighborhoods is not much lower than the rent in middle-class areas.

Michael Lewyn

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What Can Planners Learn from Online Reviews? Examining Reviews of Los Angeles Rail Stations

Eun Jin Shin of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, writes about a recent article she authored in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

JPER

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Smart Growth and Vehicle Travel Reductions

Many jurisdictions have vehicle travel reduction targets. Integrated Smart Growth policies can help achieve these and other planning goals.

Todd Litman

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Under Ben Carson, HUD Abdicates Fair Housing Responsibilities

December 28, 2018, 6am PST

Civil rights advocates are claiming that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is no longer in the business of enforcing fair housing laws.

The Washington Post

Analyzing the Decision to Rewrite the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

August 15, 2018, 6am PDT

Observers have been pointing out the contradictions in Secretary Ben Carson's justifications for a new approach to the Fair Housing Act.

Slate

Facebook Offers $1 Billion to Ease California's Housing Affordability Crisis

Google Maps for iPhone Now Reports DUI Checkpoints, Speed Traps

Sports-Related Development Transforming San Francisco's Waterfront South of Downtown

U.S. Air Quality Declining, Taking Lives

Leadership in Urban Planning, After Two Successful Stints as a Planning Director

Why the Poor Cannot Move: It's Not Just the (Official) Rent

What Can Planners Learn from Online Reviews? Examining Reviews of Los Angeles Rail Stations

Smart Growth and Vehicle Travel Reductions

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