city planning 
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
4/21/2022
Peter Algona: How Cities Became Accidental Wildlife Havens
Algona's book traces the history of land use decisions that inadvertently allowed species, particularly the coyote, to spread across the United States even as the nation became more urbanized.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
2/2/2022
The Plans that Built Greater New York
New York's Regional Plan association has worked for a century to try to solve problems of development that span not just the five boroughs but three states. As Greater New York deals with climate-related infrastructure problems, its role is more vital than ever.
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SOURCE: Washingtonian
11/10/2021
What You Think You Know About DC's Metro Skipping Georgetown is Wrong
by Luke Mullins
Zachary Schrag, author of the definitive book on the DC Metro system, says that the legend of affluent community opposition in the 1960s is a just-so story that ignores the realities transit planners faced, but does jibe with city residents' sense of issues of race, power, and influence.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
10/8/2021
How the Chicago Fire Changed the City's Architecture
Chicago-based historians D. Bradford Hunt and Dominic Pacyga argue that the Great Fire of 1871 did impact the city by inaugurating an age of big renewal plans, as well as through the city's prized architecture and parks.
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SOURCE: NextCity
10/11/2021
In Open Letter, City Planning Officials Acknowledge Agencies' Role in Racist Development Decisions
"'Our society is structured around white supremacy,' Philadelphia Planning Commission head Eleanor Sharpe says. 'It’s not a debate, but there’s this fear to acknowledge it. That fear serves the retention of the systems that are not working'."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/21/19
Destroying Istanbul to 'Restore' It
Many Istanbulites are concerned that the city’s plans for the future leave its storied past behind.
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