Opening access to scenario planning tools

Smart Growth Online

May 03, 2012 09:00

The emergence of new and improved scenario planning tools over the last 10 years has dramatically changed the way communities assess their planning fu...

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Governing the 21st century city

Journal of International Affairs

May 03, 2012 09:00

This article examines the linkages between urban governance structures and an economically successful and environmentally sustainable democratic city....

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Hospital sale could add to taxpayers' burden

Omaha World-Herald

May 02, 2012 09:00

For-profit hospitals pay property taxes. Nonprofit hospitals generally don't. So when the nonprofit Alegent Health system takes over the Creighton Uni...

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Brown to pay hometown $31.5 million to help close budget gap

Chronicle of Higher Education

May 02, 2012 09:00

Brown University has agreed to pay Providence, R.I., $31.5-million over the next 11 years, a move that Angel Taveras, the mayor, said would help the c...

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Boston's highway that went nowhere: lessons from the Inner Belt

The Atlantic Cities

May 01, 2012 09:00

In the 1950s and 1960s, as Boston was busy razing the West End and plunging ahead with urban renewal, transportation planners were pushing a highway k...

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What a top tech blogger has to say about journalism

Inklings Blog

May 01, 2012 09:00

I recently had the pleasure of attending a journalism conference in Cambridge organized by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Harvard’s...

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Brown to Pay Providence $31.5 Million Instead of Taxes

The Wall Street Journal

May 01, 2012 09:00

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A Colonial charter from 1764 provides that Brown University be "freed and exempted from all taxes." That document was penned be...

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Lessons from livable communities

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

April 30, 2012 09:00

I left Logan International Airport at rush hour on a diesel bus headed toward Boston and a seminar on cities at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. ...

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Stop Making Sense: A new strategy for community outreach

Placeshakers & Newsmakers

April 30, 2012 09:00

Okay, I’m not confident David Byrne would be all that excited about turning an ironic subtitle from the Talking Heads’ 1984 tune into a co...

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Review of Regularization of Informal Settlements in Latin America

Journal of Regional Science

April 30, 2012 09:00

A review of Regularization of Informal Settlement in Latin America in the Journal of Regional Science

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Tea Parties and the Planning of America

Planetizen

April 30, 2012 09:00

I recently had the pleasure of sitting on a panel convened by the Lincoln Instititute of Land Policy to discuss the Tea Party and its effects on ...

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'Contested city' attracts Tea Party, Occupiers

San Diego Union-Tribune

April 25, 2012 09:00

There's a contest going on in America's cities. The Tea Partiers shout down planners. The Occupy Wall Street people "check-mic" speakers. Artists thri...

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USA Today: A Rude Wake-Up Call For Cities

Planetizen

April 25, 2012 09:00

LOGAN AIRPORT, Boston – I’m on my way home from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s Journalists Forum , an annual event, co-spons...

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Facing shortfall, Taveras continues calls for U. contributions

Brown Daily Herald

April 23, 2012 09:00

At a February press conference announcing the city’s potential looming bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras’ staff gave reporters a ...

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Romney, once an anti-sprawl crusader, created model for Obama ‘smart growth’ program

Grist

April 23, 2012 09:00

Everyone knows that “Obamacare” was modeled on Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health-care law. But did you know that a key Obama &ldquo...

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Community Land Trusts beat foreclosure

North Carolina Public Radio

April 22, 2012 09:00

Robert Dowling says in every instance, they have been able to step in – intercede – and transition the family out of the home before they ...

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Urban planning experts say using citizens to guide the process is healthy

McClatchy Newspapers

April 21, 2012 09:00

Cities are people. Why not use people to improve cities? Regular folks, not planners or politicians, can be a key to solving problems of urban areas i...

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Needed: An expanded campaign to tear down urban freeways

Better Cities & Towns

April 18, 2012 09:00

The freeway removal campaign got a boost in March when the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy released “The Life and Death of U...

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Opening access to scenario planning tools

Planetizen

April 14, 2012 09:00

It is with a certain humility that those at the Regional Plan Association embark on a fourth Regional Plan for the New York, Connecticut and New Jerse...

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As Fenway Park turns 100: it almost didn't make it

The Atlantic Cities

April 13, 2012 09:00

When the Boston Red Sox trot out over the lush green grass and fine-combed infield dirt to face the Tampa Bay Rays in the season home opener today, th...

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