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PHOTOS: America's 'Great' Streets

Posted 10.03.2012 | Travel
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As part of the Great Places in America program, the American Planning Association has compiled a list of America's 10 Great Streets for 2012. Acco...

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Bicycles Run Through It: L.A. 20 Years On

Frank Gruber | Posted 06.26.2012 | Los Angeles
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For five hours, miles of streets connecting Hollywood and East L.A. through downtown Los Angeles were closed to cars and became a great festival of mostly cyclists, but also skateboarders, roller-bladers, and pedestrians.

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Making Plans; a Review of Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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It's important to recollect that although planning has been instrumental in the creation and development of New Orleans, New Orleans still exists as a great city because of a planning failure.

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LoDo Named One Of 10 'Great Neighborhoods' In The U.S.

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
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Lower Downtown Denver has undoubtedly been a centerpiece--if not the focal point--of the city's redevelopment over the last few decades. Now, the his...

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What To Do With the Suburbs?

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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If reversing the decline of cities was the preoccupation of planners in the 20th century, then the suburbs are going to be the focus of planning for much of this one.

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Metropolitan Urbanism? A Review of Grid/Street/Place by Nathan Cherry (with Kurt Nagle)

Frank Gruber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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Although the dynamism (and the dysfunction) of LA is characteristically expressed in small and often idiosyncratic projects spread around the grid, the book is weighted in favor of large developments.

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