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Occupy Movement Calls on Planning Officials to Create 'Occupy Zone'

The Occupy movement is hoping the zoning designation will help it gather more official credibility. Publication Date: Fri, 03/30/2012

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California Redevelopment Officials Suffering Redevelopment Withdrawal

"I just want to build a pocket park! Why won't anyone let me build a pocket park?" one man could be heard screaming from his padded cell in this new treatment facility.Publication Date: Sun, 04/01/2012

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Desperate Dems Invite Japanese Station Master Cat to Lobby for Transportation...

In a speech to House Transportation Committee members Tama spoke passionately about the need to raise the federal gasoline tax to preserve dedicated funding for mass transit, scratching posts, and...

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Romney Addresses Mayor’s Conference, Praises Building Heights

Romney went on to explain, "Everything just feels properly zoned. The commercial and residential districts are just the right mix – the way it ought to be. I like seeing downtowns and the little...

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Kotkin Concedes to Florida: 'You Were Right'

Kotkin had long argued that suburban areas are clearly what people want and are what's driving the future growth of the U.S. He had often and vocally opposed the idea of concentrated urban populations...

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Florida Concedes to Kotkin: 'You Were Right'

Florida's "creative class" ideas have had a broad impact on cities across North America, encouraging civic and business leaders to institute policies that encouraged diverse, educated and...

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Transit-Riding Pope Mothballs Popemobile, Opts for Pope Bus

The Pope Bus is inspired by Pope Francis' own transportation preferences. When a cardinal in Buenos Aires, he gave up his chauffeured limousine and opted to ride the bus to work.Publication Date: Mon,...

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APA Launches New Citizen Certification Program

The new program will be called AICB. Qualified citizens who pass a rigorous certification exam will be invited to join the American Institute of Certified BANANAs.Publication Date: Mon, 04/01/2013

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Urban Issues Prioritized as Politicians' Children Come Out as City-Dwellers

"I used to think 'they're dirty, they're full of poor people, who cares?'" said Republican Congressman Richard Tremaine of Alabama, days after his son Nick announced that he had moved to...

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SimCity Imposes Congestion Pricing

After its servers were overwhelmed by gamers trying to play the 2013 version of SimCity, Electronic Arts (EA) has adopted congestion pricing which will impose a surcharge on gamers playing the game...

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Hoping to Lure Natural Gas Industry Money, Pennsylvania Town Creates...

A new zoning designation now sets aside sections of town for hydraulic fracturing, the process of pumping high-pressure water or sand into the ground to ease the extraction of natural gas. Officials...

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New Study Finds Asthmatic Children Cause Inner City Traffic Congestion

"We've been looking at this all wrong," says Dr. Karl Rapp who conducted the study on congestion and asthmatic children. "For reasons that are still unclear, it's the asthmatic children who are...

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Crumbled Skyscrapers Found Floating in Chinese River

The onrush of building parts in the river follows the discovery of compromised concrete in more than a dozen skyscrapers under construction in Shenzhen last month.Publication Date: Mon, 04/01/2013

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IBM Toughs Destroy Cleveland's Traffic Lights After City Pirates Smart City...

Armed with basket cranes and baseball bats, IBM's piracy enforcers stormed into downtown Cleveland late Sunday night, bashing almost every traffic signal across the central business...

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Transportation Secretary on Spending Binge Before Leaving Office

In just the past month, LaHood has issued federal grants for more than $1.5 billion in public transit, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure project – perhaps the largest short-term outpouring of...

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Don't Tell Me What Happens in The Death and Life of Great American Cities

I stayed up until two last night reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. I was stuck on The High Cost of Free Parking last summer when everyone was reading the Jacobs, so I...

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Pets.com Employee Shuttle Has Been Circling San Francisco Since 2000

Like a ghost of tech-boom past, the Pets.com employee shuttle bus, which once drove Bay Area residents from the suburbs to the company's headquarters in San Francisco, is in constant motion on the...

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Bar Brawl Breaks Out Over Kelo v. City of New London

A fight at a local bar began over the weekend, eventually spilling out on to the street and broken up by the police, after several unidentified patrons began arguing loudly on the subject of eminent...

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Nome, Alaska to Lower 48: What Polar Vortex?

Nome, Alaska - The Office of Mayor Denise Michels released a statement earlier this week in response to claims that this winter was more difficult than normal in many parts of the United...

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Top Ten Fake Futures Most Likely to Destroy Planning As We Know It

1. Millennials: The McMansion Generation 2. High Line Demolition Begins Thursday 3. The High Cost of Free Sunday Church Parking4. NIMBYs Granted NATO ProtectionPublication Date: Tue, 04/01/2014

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