Topic: planning
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What Mumbai and Beijing Can Learn From New York
Two recent exhibits highlight American planning's strengths alongside its great weaknesses.
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Is the Most Absurd Community the One That Tries to Please Everyone?
A satirical new exhibit explores what might happen if we tried meet every single planning and design demand.
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Urban Wonk
Why Planners Need to Take Agenda 21 Criticism More Seriously
Three ways to engage Tea Party critics of sustainable design.
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How a Civic Engagement Campaign Saved Ecuador's Biggest City
The revival of Guayaquil offers a powerful model for urban recovery
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Videos
Warning of Urban Sprawl...in 1959
A Hitchcockian take on the danger of perpetual suburbanization from the Urban Land Institute
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Archives
Buffalo, Then and Now (1902-2011)
A look at how modern Buffalo compares with the city in its heyday
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New York's Search for the Right Number of Parking Spaces
Real estate developers in Manhattan want the city to relax its parking maximums
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Urban Wonk
The Limits of New Urbanism in Portland's Orenco Station
Walking and social interaction are high in this planned community, but commuting by transit remains low
