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Designing For Displacement?

How will a Tucson redevelopment project impact the city's public housing community?

January 11 - Tucson Weekly

Post-Tsunami Architecture

Architects are contributing time and skills to help rebuild the thousands of homes that were destroyed by the South Asian tsunami.

January 11 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Designing Denver

City bigwigs review the most successful planning efforts in Denver history.

January 11 - Denver Westword

SUVs are 'Hypocrisy Incarnate'

Consumers are in "denial" about "land tanks" and continue to buy them in huge numbers in spite of the evidence that they are actually more dangerous to drive than standard cars.

January 11 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Wal-Mart Targets Poor Communities

While Henry Ford chose to pay his workers enough to afford his cars, Wal Mart's market is in lower income shoppers and pays their workforce accordingly. How to keep growing? Create more poverty.

January 11 - The Nation


This Is A Sign

From muffler men to giant chickens, Indiana's landscape is full of gargantuan signage.

January 11 - Nuvo

A Secret Community With Secret Crimes

Philadelphia's Mexican immigrant population isn't reporting rampant crime.

January 11 - Philadelphia Weekly


Austin: The Year In Review

2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.

January 10 - The Austin Chronicle

Who Are The Best Urban Journalists?

Otis White offers his admittedly unscientific evaulation of the best urban journalists and newspapers in the U.S.

January 10 - Civic Strategies

Looking For The Wright Price

Why won't anyone buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house?

January 10 - The Washington Post

'A Different Vision' In Iowa City

A developer's ideas take this college town's urbanism to new heights.

January 10 - Des Moines Register

How Big Businessmen Saved The City

A review of the founding and development of the 50-year-old Greater Baltimore Committee.

January 10 - The Baltimore Sun

The Perfect Historic Preservation Case Study

The debate over preserving L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel is a perfect case study in historic preservation in this 'equivocal city.'

January 10 - The Los Angeles Times

Second Act For A Historic D.C. Neighborhood

Rennovated theater is the first of many new developments in Columbia Heights.

January 10 - The Washington Post

Ten City Design Commandments

Jeff Speck offers ten 'City Design Resolutions' for city mayors who want to build better places.

January 10 - Planetizen

Call For Transit Oriented Development In Baltimore

MaryPIRG releases report connecting denser, mixed-use development to reduction of traffic congestion.

January 10 - The Baltimore Sun

Judge Charges HUD With Fair Housing Violation

Agency blamed for not taking a regional approach to low-income housing creation in Baltimore area.

January 10 - The Baltimore Sun

FEATURE

Making Better Places: Ten City Design Resolutions

Jeff Speck offers advice -- in the form ten City Design Resolutions -- for city mayors who want to build better places.

January 10 - Jeff Speck

BLOG POST

Integrating Public Participation Tools and GIS Improves Decision Making

<td>Take a planning challenge, add some technology and a pinch of public process, mix them just the right, and you have a recipe for good decision making. Orlando County Florida is cooking up such an event- and planners, practitioners, academics and members from all communities will be interested in watching their progress. <br><br /> <br><br /> Orlando Florida is embarking on a year-long initiative to address economic, environmental, land use, and transportation needs for a 90,000-acre study area in southeast Orange County.

January 9 - Ken Snyder

New York's Golden Age

New York in the 1970's was a chaotic and 'gritty' place to live. But it was also perhaps the most creative time the city ever experienced.

January 9 - Wall St. Journal

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Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools

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