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Planning Trends to Watch in 2021 The nation is now tasked with the challenge of changing course in the middle of multiple, global crises. The necessity of finding a way to overcome the failures of the past and lay the groundwork for a new kind of future has never been more clear. January 31, 2021, 11am PST | James Brasuell | AlexiRosenfeld The nation and world are still mired in the COVID-19 pandemic, and the news to start 2021 has been marked by mass death, insurrection, and fear that the...

✕ 60 percent of likely voters say they’re in favor of public housing. So why isn’t there more of it? Americans say they want the government to build affordable housing — but not in their backyards. Share this story Theresa, who has been homeless for much of her life, pauses for photos in the lobby area of an affordable housing complex in Los Angeles. “I understand that recovery centers and halfway housing costs money, but graveyards and hospital beds cost money too, which the taxpaye...

News Highlights: Why Tech Moguls are obsessed with building utopian cities | by Patrick Sisson | Jan 2021 In historian Ben Wilson’s new book on the history of cities, Metropolis, he notes that the ancient Mesopotamian settlement of Uruk, considered the first design of the urbanization, emerged thousands of years after extensive stone worship. site was mounted on a mountain slope in present-day Turkey. “The temple came for the farm,” he wrote. In other words, beliefs are more important...

All the city news you can use. By Jeff Wood - Jan 23rd, 2021 10:34 am //end headline wrapper ?> Aerial view of Sacramento, California. Photo by Ron Reiring, (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) l...

Facing a deepening housing shortage, one California city is looking to get rid of its most space-intensive zoning designation. What’s in the cards for post-pandemic travel? Dallas wants to improve pedestrian mobility. A step toward eliminating single family zoning in Sacramento: The Sacramento City Council unanimously supported a move to get rid of single family zoning in the city, mirroring similar changes in Oregon and Minneapolis. The new rule would allow four units on each parcel of land,...

Andrew Yang wants to bring TikTok collab houses to New York as part of his mayoral platform Andrew Yang wants to bring TikTok collab houses to New York as part of his mayoral platform Allison JiangJan 23, 2021, 01:19 IST Michael M. Santiago / Staff / Getty Images Andrew Yang announced that he would bring TikTok "hype houses" to New York City if elected mayor. The policy position can be found on Yangs website under the "Culture, Society, and Nightlife" section. The policy position sparked jokes ...

Strengthening The Financial System To Meet The Challenge Of Climate Change, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard At "The Financial System & Climate Change: A Regulatory Imperative" Hosted By The Center For American Progress, Washington, D.C. Date 18/12/2020 I want to thank the Center for American Progress for inviting me to join you in discussing climate change and the U.S. financial system.1 Let me start by noting these are my own views and do not necessarily reflect those of the Feder...