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NEWS HEADLINES
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== FOUR OPTIONS FOR RANKING URBAN PLANNING PROGRAMS
UCLA urban planning professor Randall Crane offers his
observations on the four options that planning schools have
for helping applicants decide to which schools they should
apply and attend.
Dec 10 2007 -- Urban Planning Research by Randall Crane
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== AMTRAK: MAYBE NOW?
With increasing train ridership and more people shying away
from the gas pump, Neil Peirce asks whether now might be
Amtrak's time to shine.
Dec 12 2007 -- The Washington Post
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== CAR-FREE DAYS FLOOD LONDON WITH PEDESTRIANS -- AND COMMERCE
Temporarily pedestrianized streets in London brought nearly a
million people out for a day of walking and shopping
recently, resulting in more than $200 million worth of sales.
Dec 11 2007 -- The Evening Standard
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== REPORT SAYS GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLANS MAKE HOUSING
UNAFFORDABLE
In this new report from the Cato Institute, Randal O'Toole
writes that regional growth management plans make housing
unaffordable and that states with these laws should repeal
them.
Dec 10 2007 -- Cato Institute
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== THE NEW SUBURBAN GHETTO
High foreclosure rates are turning Charlotte's new starter
home suburbs into bastions of crime and decay.
Dec 12 2007 -- Charlotte Observer
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== IS A SUBWAY SYSTEM POSSIBLE IN KANSAS CITY?
The city may consider a heavy rail subway system after
overturning a light rail ballot initiative.
Dec 10 2007 -- Kansas City Star
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== SMALL TOWNS LOOK TO KEEP YOUNG PROFESSIONALS BY INCREASING
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
County officials in New York are looking to award more than
$87 million to small towns to increase their stock of
affordable housing -- an effort aimed at luring and keeping
young professionals. But opposition to this development type
is a hurdle.
Dec 11 2007 -- The New York Times
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== WALKABILITY REPORT RAISES QUESTIONS AND DOUBTS
California Planning and Development Report's Paul
Shigley reviews the recent report on walkability released by
the Brookings Institution and finds some of its claims
dubious.
Dec 12 2007 -- California Planning & Development Report
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== LESSONS FROM AMERICA'S MOST AMBITIOUS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT
The City Journal examines lessons from Boston's 35-year,
$14.8 billion Big Dig project and asks how can American
invest in infrastructure -- and do it intelligently?
Dec 10 2007 -- City Journal
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== LAGOS: AFRICA'S NEW YORK CITY
This video from Current profiles Lagos, Nigeria, the
world's fastest growing megacity.
Dec 11 2007 -- Current
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== SELLING THE GARDEN CITY THAT ISN'T A GARDEN CITY
This article from the Warsaw Business Journal looks
at how the concept of the Garden City is gladly embraced by
developers to market their housing projects, but rarely are
its design characteristics included in the actual
development.
Dec 10 2007 -- Warsaw Business Journal
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== CARS TAKE BACK SEAT IN PLANNED TRANSIT-FRIENDLY STREET
In Toronto, planners have unveiled a street design that
separates a planned streetcar line from auto traffic, bike
***s, and parking. Many are calling it a first for the city
-- making the street decidedly transit- and
pedestrian-friendly.
Dec 12 2007 -- The Toronto Star
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== IS THIS LIQUOR STORE AN AMENITY OR A NUISANCE?
In a gentrifying neighborhood in Washington D.C., residents
are campaigning against a local liquor store they say
encourages littering and public drunkenness. But longtime
neighborhood residents defend the store, calling it a
neighborhood staple.
Dec 11 2007 -- The Washington Post
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== BOSTON TRAINS RUN CHEAPER BUT LATE
A report by The Boston Globe finds that the Boston
area transit system costs less to operate than other major
American transit systems -- but it has one of the worst
on-time arrival performances in the nation.
Dec 10 2007 -- The Boston Globe
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== MAIN STREET PRESERVATION AIMS HARM ECONOMY
This article from Reason looks at a regulatory
system in Alexandria, Virginia, that seeks to maintain the
city's historic Old Town neighborhood. But is the regulation
burdening local businesses owners to the point of hurting
the economy?
Dec 12 2007 -- Reason
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== THE EXPANDING SUBWAY OF BEIJING
This blog post from Wired takes a look at the
expanding subway system of Beijing, China -- a system that is
expected to become the world's second largest by 2015.
Dec 11 2007 -- Wired
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== GREEN HOUSING MEETS LOW INCOME
This article from Utne Reader looks at a green
housing complex that aimed at an atypical market: low-income
residents.
Dec 10 2007 -- Utne Reader
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== CANADA'S CAPITAL ERRORS
Thanks to a series of "lousy" public policy decisions, Ottawa
- Canada's national capital - is growing increasingly
dysfunctional, writes Jeffrey Simpson.
Dec 11 2007 -- Globe & Mail
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== NEW ORLEANS TO SLASH LOW INCOME HOUSING
Plans to demolish low income housing and remove FEMA trailers
are putting the poor of New Orleans in a tight spot.
Dec 10 2007 -- Bloomberg
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== CREATIVITY NEEDED TO SOLVE L.A.'S TRAFFIC PROBLEMS
This piece from the Los Angeles Times takes a look
at two big ideas for fixing L.A.'s congestion: subway and
monorail.
Dec 12 2007 -- Los Angeles Times
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