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Planetizen

  • Controversy Erupts Over Seattle's Light Rail Party Planning Expenses
  • Boise Tackles the Tough Question: Go Light Rail or Go Bus?
  • Investigation: Walmarts Abuse Local Police Force Resources
  • Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf Expresses Solidarity for Cities
  • Cities as Playgrounds...For Children
  • Cities Discovering the Limitations of Half-Baked Rail Plans
  • Hyperloop One Hails its 'Kitty Hawk' Moment in the Nevada Desert
  • Public Safety a Growing Concern in St. Paul Skyways
  • Louisville Builds a Green Ring Around the City
  • Lead Exceeds Federal Standards in 200 Illinois Public Water Systems
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The Transport Politic

  • Frequent service, not escalator access, is what attracts transit users
  • Which riders matter?
  • You’ve got $50 billion for transit. Now how should you spend it?
  • At long last, a transportation budget that pays for itself—and recognizes the climate
  • Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2016
  • A new federal transportation bill rejects the long-standing consensus on revenue but preserves the policy status quo
  • America’s car obsession will not be diminished by Millennials alone
  • In L.A., efforts are afoot to make bike share a genuine part of the transit network
  • For rail services, downtown sometimes isn’t the right place for a terminus
  • Will autonomous cars change the role and value of public transportation?
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Institute for Local Self-Reliance

  • Not Just Illegal, Targeting Solar Facilities With Fees is Poor Policy
  • Minnesota’s Broadband Grant Program: Getting the Rules Right
  • Getting Smart About Waste
  • Video: John Farrell Keynote Presentation – Salt Spring Community Energy Conference
  • What Should Bernie Do Now?
  • Energy Democracy Media Roundup – week of May 9, 2016
  • Save the Albatross Coalition Formed
  • A New Logo, and a Definition of Energy Democracy
  • Infographic: Compost Impacts More Than You Think
  • Anti Incineration Efforts in China: Two Plants Canceled in One Week
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Transportation for America

  • Feds get out of the way of communities that want to design safer, more complete streets
  • After city council action, Indy voters will decide on expanding and improving regional transit this November
  • What progress did states make this year on raising new funding or improving policy?
  • Watch the recording of T4America’s discussion on USDOT’s rulemaking on traffic congestion performance measures
  • When it comes to traffic congestion, we need to measure more than just vehicles
  • Senate transportation appropriations bill adheres to local leaders’ call to fund TIGER, public transit and passenger rail
  • Join us as we break down FHWA’s most recent rulemaking on measuring traffic congestion
  • Ten things to know about USDOT’s new proposal for measuring traffic congestion
  • Breaking news: USDOT releases draft rule for measuring congestion
  • Smart Growth America welcomes Lynn Peterson as new senior transportation policy advisor
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National Trust for Historic Preservation

  • Preservation Personals: Just a Stone's Throw from an Intellectual Mecca
  • A Treasure Trove of British Art in a Renovated Modernist Masterpiece
  • Seeing It, Saving It
  • Back to the Future in Portland, Oregon
  • Basque Country, USA
  • Saving Mother Nature's Peculiar Gift to Motorcar Racing
  • Preservation Personals: The Magical (Not Harry) Potter Homestead
  • J & M Cafe and Cardroom in Seattle
  • Answered Prayers
  • Rolling in the Deep
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Next City

  • San Jose Will Expand Participatory Budgeting
  • Why Winning Park Design Is a Win for Los Angeles
  • How Do Cities Mandate Recycling Without Snooping in Your Trash?
  • In New Jersey, NBA Basketball Mixes With Startup Incubator
  • New Orleans Local Hiring Plan in Limbo
  • Chicago River Planning Process Includes Bike, Boat Rides
  • Louisville Looks to the Edges for New Parks, Once Again
  • NYC Pols: Bring Barnes Dance Back for Most Dangerous Intersections
  • Social Entrepreneurs Get Support in Seattle
  • Designing Buildings to Protect Urban Residents
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American Planning Association (APA) Sustaining Places

  • The Role of Public Markets in Community Building
  • Great Places: Revitalization Through Public Private Partnerships
  • Planning for Great Places in Asheville, North Carolina
  • What Can Your Street Do for You? Physical Activity … and BEYOND!
  • What Do You Do When You Have Too Much Vacant Land?
  • Planning and Community Health: Making the Case for Healthy Communities
  • Can’t Decide on a Color for Your Infrastructure? Try Green
  • LandscapePerformance.org: Demonstrating the Value of Sustainable Landscapes
  • Metrics for Density Help Promote Sustaining Places
  • Detroit Bike City
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American Planning Association (APA) Policy News For Planners

  • White House ‘Opportunity Project’ Harnesses Open Data Technologies for Communities
  • A Game Changer for Kansas City
  • Support CDBG — Sign the National Letter Today
  • APA Partners with HUD on Solutions for Local Prosperity
  • President’s FY 2017 Budget in Detail: Conservation, Water, Hazard Mitigation, and Federal Data
  • President’s FY 2017 Budget in Detail: Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • President’s FY 2017 Budget in Detail: Department of Transportation
  • President Unveils Final Budget Proposal, Congress Begins Budget Work
  • Why I Voted in the New Hampshire Primary
  • Obama to Release His Final Budget Tomorrow: Why Does It Matter to Planners?
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Project for Public Spaces

  • 8 Placemaking Principles for Innovation Districts
  • “Making it Happen” Again: Announcing PPS’s Summer 2016 Placemaking Training
  • To Remember Jane Jacobs, You’ve Got to Get Out and Walk
  • Open Streets Cape Town: Reconnecting the Post-Apartheid City
  • Bringing Environmentalism and Placemaking Back Together
  • Encouraging Place Attachment in Early Education
  • Five New Cities to Receive Southwest Airlines Heart of the Community Grant
  • What Pike Place Teaches us about Place Governance
  • A Man, a Plan, a Market: The Lighter Quicker Cheaper Transformation of a Rural Kentucky Main Street
  • PPS Enters 2016 Presidential Race: “The Party for Public Spaces”
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The Atlantic Cities

  • You Don't Have to Feel Cramped in a Tiny Home: Best #Cityreads of the Week
  • A New Wave of Deportations Shows Obama's Double-Talk on Immigration
  • Why the 'Psycho' Mansion Is Now on the Roof of the Met
  • Despite Higher Education, Millennials Still Aren't Buying Homes
  • Switzerland Is Opening the World's Longest-Ever Rail Tunnel
  • Portraits of Stylish Cyclists and Their Beloved Bikes
  • New York City Announces New Initiatives to Ease Bail Burdens
  • The Show-Me-Your-Voter-ID State?
  • How Badly Do New York City Subway Riders Actually Behave?
  • Feds Put Schools on Notice to Respect Transgender Rights
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