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San Francisco Unveils Major Stadium, Housing Plans
<p>In an effort to woo the city's NHL team back, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a planned partnership with Lennar Corp. of Miami to turn a blighted and contaminated part of the city into a new mixed-use community.</p>
An Interview With Ken Livingstone: London's Planning Czar?
<p>Praised by many for his bold actions to make London more livable and sustainable, the self-proclaimed practical socialist Ken Livingstone offers his thoughts on transit, housing and immigration policies for the world city.</p>
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Sleepless in Shanghai, #2
<p>Two moments in this trip bring home the pace of change here. Sunday morning, 8am, I wake up in the Zhongshan Park section of west-central Shanghai. Head out into the backlanes of the superblock behind the hotel and construction on a high-rise gated apartment building is already at full tilt. Two other construction projects intitimate in my life... a dorm across from our apartment in Manhattan, and a restaurant next to the Institute in Palo Alto, are definitely not on the same aggressive shifts.</p><p>Next moment, Wednesday evening 11:18pm at our hotel in Pudong, I glance out the window before bed and see a line of cement mixers 10-12 deep waiting to unload at the construction site across the street.</p>
China's Landscape Transformed By Automobile
<p>In 20 short years, the country has become the second largest car market in the world, and is in the midst of a road building bonanza.</p>
The Growing Urban Agriculture Movement
<p>Food grown in neighborhood and backyard farms is catching on with urban residents who are looking for healthy, fresh, locally grown food.</p>
Is The Next American Dream A Condo?
<p>With few residents able to afford a suburban home, residents of San Diego and increasingly other high-priced western cities are gradually embracing a new model for homeownership.</p>
Bringing Them Home, To Homelessness
<p>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.</p>
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Sleepless in Shanghai
<p>I'm in Shanghai this week conducting workshops for two of my Fortune 500 clients looking at the future of mobility in the Shanghai region and Chinese cities more broadly. If you've never been to China, get on a plane now and come here. You will never think about cities or urbanization the same way again.</p><p>Shanghai has created a city larger than Manhattan in less than 20 years, and is set to create another in the next 15. The earth literally sags under the weight of the new buildings, as they push the former rural swampland into the earth.</p>
Green-Collar Jobs Key to Nation's Economic & Ecological Health
<p>Van Jones wants to make sure working-class and minority Americans can participate and benefit from a transition to a clean-energy economy.</p>
Meeting The Affordable Housing Challenge
<p>Inclusionary zoning and community land trusts are two innovative methods that government and non-profits are starting to use to create affordable housing, though these, like past efforts, have their shortcomings.</p>
A 'Year of Decision' For Chicago's El System
<p>For Chicago's El, big decisions must be made to modernize the nations' second largest transit system and alleviate it routine budget shortfalls.</p>
Parking Deck Scars Downtown Atlanta Block
<p>Despite being sued over its construction, a developer built a parking deck against code and severely limited the potential of the remaining downtown block it sits on.</p>
A Sun Roof Over Their Heads
<p>The sub-prime meltdown has some Los Angelenos sleeping (illegally) in their cars, and advocates for the homeless are divided about what to do about it.</p>
A Subway Car For The Future That Never Came
<p>Although New York City's Second Avenue Subway may finally come to fruition, it is unlikely that the once futuristic Car 8013 of the R11 model will ever run on its tracks.</p>
Bush Administration Puts Money Behind Implementing Congestion Pricing
<p>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.</p>
Inside Southern Californian Slums
<p>Near the California desert resorts in and around Palm Springs, huge slums have built up in trailer parks, occupied by migrant farm workers. These areas are overcrowded with thousands of people, many of whom have no access to clean water or plumbing.</p>
The Cul-de-sac Conundrum
<p>If most planners do not like cul-de-sacs why are so many being built in Southern California?</p>
City Of Lights To Become City Of Bikes
<p>This summer more than 20,500 rental bikes will be available to Parisians at 1,450 bike stations for a faster, cheaper travel alternative.</p>
Adapting Habitat For Humanity To The Urban Environment
<p>Habitat for Humanity takes its expertise in creating builder-owners in suburban settings to Los Angeles, which desperately needs affordable housing. <em>The Planning Report</em> interviews CEO Erin Rank.</p>
Creating Stronger Borders -- In Wisconsin
<p>Legislation up for consideration in Wisconsin looks to make it easier for towns in the state to legally change their municipal status to avoid being annexed. The bill hopes to reduce the amount of cross-town border disputes incited by annexations.</p>
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