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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 there's more to come. With multiple vaccines on the market, this should have been a hopeful time. Inste...

✕ 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 taxpayers end up paying anyway,” she said. Jae C. Hong/AP As Covid-19 has thrust tens of millions of Amer...

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 than buildings. This truism of hatching cities is just as relevant today, at a time when tech mogul...

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) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes absurd, but hopefully useful. Sacramento getting rid of s...