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One of the biggest obstacles to retrofitting suburbia with more walkable environments is passionate local opposition to change.

February 21 - Greater Greater Washington

Here's one way to make a kid-friendly city and introduce the joys of public transit at a young age: offer free multi-agency transit passes to high school students.

February 21 - The Seattle Times

The inventory, a requirement from a 1992 U.N. treaty, shows emissions from most sectors are either decreasing or holding steady. The major exception: transportation.

February 21 - Climatewire

There are a lot of ways to "right-size" parking, as the city of Seattle is showing with an ordinance under consideration by a City Council committee today.

February 21 - The Urbanist

An inclusionary zoning case study is emerging in Portland. Even if inclusionary zoning isn't broken, it might still need a fix, say local planners.

February 21 - The Oregonian

The U.S. Department of Justice is taking another look at a development decision made by the Louisville Metro Council in October 2017.

February 21 - Insider Louisville

A highly anticipated linear park project in Philadelphia will open this year. Planners and activists have been working in anticipation of increased pressure on the local housing market.

February 21 - The Philadelphia Citizen

More transit agencies are recognizing that it's not enough to build transit infrastructure if the people who really need it don't live close enough to use it.

February 20 - TransitCenter

A "once-in-a-generation" redevelopment plan, called for in Portland's Central City 2035 Plan, has inspired big thinking from architects and planners.

February 20 - The Architect's Newspaper

The city of Lexington, Kentucky recently amended its B-6P zone, which regulates "Planned Shopping Centers."

February 20 - Strong Towns

Cities and researchers are reconsidering the effects of the controversial housing policy known as rent control.

February 20 - Governing

Lyft has entered into a partnership with Baltimore Bike Share, on the heels of Uber's entrance into the San Francisco bike-share market.

February 20 - Modern Cities

Amtrak's Gateway Program to replace a century-old rail tunnel and bridge from New Jersey to Manhattan, both bottlenecks on the busy Northeast Corridor, did not score well on an evaluation by the Federal Transit Administration for grant funding.

February 20 - Progressive Railroading

A local nonprofit created a real estate development wing to stem the tide of displacement in San Francisco.

February 20 - Next City

Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender thinks the political calculus has changed for inclusionary zoning—but some critics think inclusionary zoning will be too little too late to make a difference for the city's affordable housing stock.

February 20 - MinnPost

This report estimates that U.S. cities could save half a trillion dollars by investing in "smart surface technologies." The study takes into account obvious factors like energy use and less intuitive ones like tourism revenues.

February 20 - Next City

Plenty of sidewalks stand in need of improvement, and many aren't there at all. But they're also a symbol of the automobile's engineered dominance of our roads.

February 20 - Curbed

According to one recent study, regional culture plays a major part in how healthily people eat. Supply may be less of a factor than demand.

February 19 - The Washington Post

At the ninth session of the World Urban Forum held earlier in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy introduced their new "Pedestrian First" toolkit to measure and promote walkability in urban environments.

February 19 - Thomson Reuters Foundation

It is illegal to operate a mobile phone to talk, text or listen to music while crossing the street in Montclair, California

February 19 - Daily Bulletin