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The Most Popular Planetizen Posts of 2014

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The Best Planning Apps for 2015

6 hours ago   By JENNIFER EVANS-COWLEY

Coal Ash Finally Regulated—But Not as Hazardous Waste

8 hours ago   EPA Connect

Imagining a Self-Contained, Vertical City

10 hours ago   Fast Co.Exist4

Op-Ed: Christie Administration Hobbles Affordable Housing

12 hours ago   New York Times

The Online Tool for Comparing Bus Rapid Transit Data

14 hours ago   The City Fix

Explaining the Ups and Downs of U.S. Wind Power

Yesterday   Vox

Chicago Moving Forward with Residential High Rise Designed by Robert A.M. Stern

Yesterday   Crain's Chicago Business

Will Electric Vehicles Feel the Pinch from $2.30 Gasoline?

Yesterday   San Francisco Chronicle

Is America's Best Bike Lane Overrated?

Yesterday   San Francisco Examiner

'Self-Sufficiency Standard' Reveals Distressing Levels of Poverty

Yesterday   Quartz

Northern Avenue Bridge Shut Down in Boston

2 days ago   The Boston Globe

Critical Support for New NBA Arena Proposal in San Francisco

2 days ago   San Francisco Chronicle

Prince Charles Lays Out a 10-Point Planning Agenda

2 days ago   Dezeen1

Seattle Tenants Force Public Housing Not To Raise Rent

2 days ago   Rooflines

Could Keystone XL Become the Next Casualty of Falling Oil Prices?

2 days ago   The Wall Street Journal1

Traffic 'Crisis' in the Birthplace of Jesus

3 days ago   AP via Yahoo News

Mapping America's Toy Manufacturing

3 days ago   The Washington Post

Google Searches Reveal Christmas Lists for 24 U.S. Cities

3 days ago   New York Times - The Upshot

Santa Claus for Digital Natives

3 days ago   The Wall Street Journal

Planning and Design: North Pole Edition

3 days ago   PlaceShakers

2014 in Review—Music About Places

4 days ago   By JAMES BRASUELL1

Polls: New York Fracking Ban Has Wide Support

4 days ago   Newsmax

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Part One: Should MoMA Tout Tactical Urbanism(s) as a Solution to Uneven Growth? 

OPINION

Dec 20, 2014   By MIKE LYDON

Transit-Oriented Development Increases Value and Affordability

Dec 20, 2014   TOD Index

San Antonio Set to Become Fifth-Largest U.S. City

5 days ago   The Wall Street Journal

Montreal to Tear Down Elevated Bonaventure Expressway

The city of Montreal announced final plans to tear down an elevated highway and replace it with an urban boulevard. 

6 days ago   Montreal Gazette

The Top Bike Lane Projects of 2014

Dec 19, 2014   People for Bikes1

The Role of Stadiums in Urban Revitalization

5 days ago   The Planning Report

Trends in Master Planned Communities

6 days ago   Urban Land

A New Era of Skyscrapers in New York

New York magazine examines the latest wave of skyscraper development in New York City for the possibility that they might embody the highest outcomes of form and function. 

Dec 21, 2014   New York

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JENNIFER EVANS-COWLEY

The Best Planning Apps for 2015

JAMES BRASUELL

2014 in Review—Music About Places

MIKE LYDON

Part One: Should MoMA Tout Tactical Urbanism(s) as a Solution...

MICHAEL LEWYN

The Economist and Suburbia: A Fistful of Myths

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ARCHITECTURE

• The Most Popular Planetizen Posts of 2014
• Op-Ed Critiques Architecture: from 'Infinitesimal Specks' to 'Sprawling Dreck'
• Nature and Art: A Christmas Plea for Cities

COMMUNITY / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Significant Jump in California Driving
• 5 Ways Technology Can Improve Urban Design
• Urban vs. Suburban: The Debate Continues

EDUCATION & CAREERS

• What's Good about Being an Urban Planner?
• Should I Present at a Conference? And If I Don't Present, Should I Attend? 
• Will Los Angeles Legalize Street Vending?

ENERGY

• Arctic Lovers Can Thank Falling Oil Prices for this Gift
• New York Bans Fracking for Good
• Study: 'It's hard to beat gasoline' on Air Quality

ENVIRONMENT

• Friday Night Lights: NASA Can See Your Holiday Lights from Space
• Six Employees Indicted in West Virginia Water Contamination Debacle
• CEQA and High-Speed Rail Foes Dealt Setback by Federal Board

GOVERNMENT / POLITICS

• Parisian Traffic, Air Pollution Reduction Plan Caught on Political Snag
• International Climate Accord Reached in Lima
• Federal Spending Bill Passes—TIGER Trimmed But Still Alive

HISTORY / PRESERVATION

• 60 Years of Midwestern Urban Renewal
• Historic, Green, Affordable, and at (Some) Scale?
• Nation's Most Expensive Bridge Crossing Turns 50

HOUSING

• Boomers Drive Home Sales; Millennials Still on the Sidelines
• Groundbreaking for Controversial 'Atlantic Yards' Development
• Fair Housing and Community Development: Better Together!

HUMOR

• 2014's Best and Worst in Architecture and Design
• Friday Funny: Trolling the World's Landmark Buildings
• Friday Funny: Denmark vs. U.S. in an Epic Rap Battle Between Bike Advocates

INFRASTRUCTURE

• On the Importance of Bike Parking to Bike Commute Adoption
• 750-Mile Trail Network Near Philadelphia Receives $8.6 Million Gift 
• Study: Trip Generation Manual Produces 'Phantom Trips'

LAND USE

• New Designs Revealed for $50 Million Renovation of Minneapolis' Nicollet Mall
• Mapping the Locavore's Food Supply
• Dumping in Dixie and the Inequity of Place

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

• Willamette Falls Access Approved as Part of Redevelopment Plan
• Exploring Creek 'Daylighting' Projects in Washington D.C.
• Street Trees on State Roads Spark Controversy in Louisville

SOCIAL / DEMOGRAPHICS

• The Economist and Suburbia: A Fistful of Myths
• Mind the Gap: Media, Researchers Identify Gentrification Differently
• Race, Poverty, and Change in America: The Persistent Dilemmas of Equity and Equality

TECHNOLOGY

• Citizens in Central Arkansas Imagine the Future with Interactive Online Plans
• Study: Passenger Vehicle Fleet is Older and More Polluting
• Tough Week for Uber on the West Coast—Three Cities File Injunctions

TRANSPORTATION

• America's Growing Transit Love Affair
• Smart Growth Communities Require Less Pavement
• Kansas City Proceeding with the First of (Possibly) Many Road Diets

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

• Redevelopment Plans Finalized for Site of Detroit's Defunct Tiger Stadium
• Report Shows Which States Lead the Net-Zero Building Market
• Back to Basics: the Diggs Town Public Housing Revitalization

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