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Have you ever flown over a city and imagined all the subway lines running beneath the surface?

March 8, 2019 - Quid Corner

The video game has inspired many people to pursue careers in planning. But, the newest version is also trying to better align the simulations with what planners face in the real world.

March 7, 2019 - Los Angeles Times

A new book by Samuel Stein links planning to the causes of a global finance industry that values worldwide real estate at $217 trillion, or 60 percent of the world's assets.

March 7, 2019 - Next City

A new game called Imaginable Guidelines invites participants to imagine, explore, discuss, and share their vision for the future.

March 7, 2019 - CityLab

This Airbnb Does Not Exist uses real Airbnb listings to make computer generated fakes.

March 1, 2019 - Futurism

This is definitely not a one-seat ride.

March 1, 2019 - CityLab

It's not all free flowing commutes and world peace in an autonomous vehicle-filled future.

February 28, 2019 - Futurism

The White House is planning to establish a new climate panel, headed by a well-known climate denier, to question the findings of the president's own intelligence agencies that climate change does indeed pose a national security risk.

February 24, 2019 - The Washington Post

The study gathers emissions reporting data from cities around the world.

February 23, 2019 - Tennessean

In a dispatch from the Urban 20 Mayoral Summit, Jocelyn Perry and Bill Burke-White write about cities' role in climate governance and public policy.

February 22, 2019 - Penn IUR Urban Link

Many of the movies nominated for Oscars this year gain a great deal of thematic and storytelling meaning from their locations.

February 22, 2019 - Brookings

With the Trump administration's abdication of its predecessor's position on fighting climate change, a void has been left in global climate change leadership. One expert believes that China may have already filled the leadership role.

February 8, 2019 - PBS NewsHour

The Users’ Guide to Code Reform leads planners through the code reform process, providing tools for governments lacking the capacity to develop a full form-based code. Susan Henderson and Matt Lambert hit the high points.

February 6, 2019 - PlaceShakers

By 2030, cities will have tripled in size since 2000. Unmanaged, incessant growth is threatening the planet, according to a new report from the World Resources Institute.

February 5, 2019 - Curbed

Conventional planning evaluates transport system performance car-centric indicators such as roadway Level-of-Service (LOS). Many jurisdictions are shifting to Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT), which supports multimodal planning and Smart Growth policies.

January 31, 2019 - Fehr and Peers via YouTube

The plants provide much-needed fresh water, but the environmental costs are immense.

January 22, 2019 - National Geographic

Soil often doesn’t get the attention that it deserves, but it is integral to the ecology of cities.

January 22, 2019 - The Guardian

For all the money pouring into autonomous vehicle technology, the public is still relatively unconvinced about the viability of the technology.

January 19, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

Looking around the globe for lessons in equitable mobility in the new technology-enabled era of transportation.

January 18, 2019 - Thomson Reuters Foundation

As cities define our world in new ways every day, Penn Institute for Urban Research asked nearly dozen urban experts, “Why cities?”

January 18, 2019 - Penn IUR Urban Link