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New Research: Social Vulnerability Significantly Predicted Storm Damage from Hurricane Ike
Wesley E. Highfield, Walter Gillis Peacock, and Shannon Van Zandt from Texas A&M examine the damage after Hurricane Ike and its relationship to social vulnerability (Available via Open Access, http://goo.gl/K) in a new JPER article.
New Research Suggests Collaborative Approaches Produce Better Plans
Open Access to Deyle, Robert E., and Ryan E. Wiedenman. "Collaborative Planning by Metropolitan Planning Organizations A Test of Causal Theory."
A Special Focus on Planning for Healthy Schools
SAGE has provided free access to material from the Journal of Planning Education and Research's focus issue on Healthy Schools.
Evaluating the Impact of Conservation Subdivision Implementation
Aslıgül Göçmen examines the environmental impact of conservation subdivision design.
Streetcars and Recovery
A study of streetcar-adjacent development patterns in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina provides lessons for the many U.S. cities building and planning new streetcar lines.