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Faux-Urban Malls Not So Bad After All?

The new generation of malls like Santana Row in San Jose, which critics accuse of being 'artificial', may indeed be serving a valuable role associated with good urbanism -- public gathering space.

March 30, 2007 - Metropolis Magazine

Want Less Traffic? Price Your Parking Right

UCLA Professor Donald Shoup demonstrates that by pricing curb parking too low, cities are contributing to traffic and pollution and losing out on revenue.

March 30, 2007 - The New York Times

Can Big Box Retail Ever Be Sustainable?

Even with its environmental-friendly pledges, as long as customers keep driving to visit its massive stores, Wal-mart isn't likely to become 'green'.

March 29, 2007 - Grist

Homeless? No Soup For You!

Some cities are imposing restrictions on organizations that feed the homeless.

March 29, 2007 - USA Today

The Growing Urban Agriculture Movement

Food grown in neighborhood and backyard farms is catching on with urban residents who are looking for healthy, fresh, locally grown food.

March 28, 2007 - AlterNet

Bringing Them Home, To Homelessness

Tens of thousands of veterans are suffering from mental illness and homelessness, and as more soldiers return from Iraq those numbers are expected to grow.

March 28, 2007 - CBS News

Green-Collar Jobs Key to Nation's Economic & Ecological Health

Van Jones wants to make sure working-class and minority Americans can participate and benefit from a transition to a clean-energy economy.

March 27, 2007 - Grist

Bush Administration Puts Money Behind Implementing Congestion Pricing

In one of the clearest directives to states yet, an FHWA official stated publicly that they want to award money to highway departments to actually implement -- not simply study -- congestion pricing.

March 27, 2007 - The Advocate (Stamford, CT)

Barriers To Planning: Lessons From Katrina

Evacuating people after Hurricane Katrina revealed chronic shortcomings of local and regional evacuation planning. The barriers that hindered efforts in New Orleans apply not only to evacuation planning, but to planning in general.

March 26, 2007 - Thomas W. Sanchez, Marc Brenman

Armchair Architects Play Favorites With Buildings

The results are in and tongues are still wagging -- about buildings that Americans both love and hate. The AIA released the winners and losers of its survey to discover America's favorite architecture.

March 25, 2007 - ArchitectOnline.com

Suburbs Battle Blight Left By Foreclosures

Attempting to ward off a panic in the real estate market, cities in Ohio, Georgia, Illinois, and elsewhere are tapping into their coffers to eradicate foreclosure-related blight.

March 24, 2007 - The New York Times

Half Of All Americans Believe Current Housing Policies Misguided

A recent Zogby America poll shows that a large and increasing number of Americans view affordable housing as a major issue, and are looking to government to actively address the problem.

March 23, 2007 - PR Newswire

African Americans Among First Victims Of Subprime Meltdown

The aggressive promotion of risky sub-prime mortgages in neighborhoods largely populated by African Americans is leading to geographic concentrations of foreclosures.

March 23, 2007 - The New York Times

Talking With The Parking Evangelist: An Interview With Donald Shoup

UCLA Professor and author of The High Cost of Free Parking visits New York City to preach the gospel of sound parking pricing policies.

March 22, 2007 - Streetsblog

Making TOD Work: An Interview With Nathan Cherry

One of the designers behind Mockingbird Station in Dallas, Texas, one of the first TODs in the country, talks about the recipe for a successful transit-oriented development.

March 22, 2007 - Multi-Housing News

Earth To Planners: Americans Want Roads, Not Transit

The current strategy of encouraging traffic congestion and focusing on transit doesn't align with the majority of American's preferences. Instead of continuing to follow failed policy, planners should start using new solutions to increase capacity.

March 21, 2007 - Reason Online

The Growing Interest In Universal Design

Leaders of the Universal Design movement call for a built environment that works for all members of society -- young, old, able-bodied or disabled -- an increasingly important issue as the population ages.

March 21, 2007 - The Washington Post

Is Chicago The New 'Green' American City?

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose city has typically been recognized for its environmental leadership, recently visited Chicago to observe the pioneering work of Mayor Daley in implementing green building principles and gather new ideas.

March 21, 2007 - The Chicago Tribune

Rezoning L.A.'s Industrial Bones

Developers want to transform downtown L.A.'s warehouses, factories, and grimy commercial buildings to accommodate live-work spaces. Planners and activists want to stay the course -- they say needed jobs are at stake.

March 21, 2007 - The Los Angeles Times

Superstar Cities

Big cities pack a punch equal to some national economies. The fraction of high-income families in superstar cities is 43 percent higher than in average cities, and those cities' share of poor families is 11 percent lower.

March 19, 2007 - National Bureau Of Economic Research

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