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- Why Today's Start-Ups Are Choosing Urban Lofts Over Suburban Office Parks
- Density is the new fertility bogeyman
- Walkability, but hold the red tape
- Building Hyperdensity and Civic Delight
- Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative
- The Coming Bold Transformation of the American City
- Why aren’t younger Americans driving anymore?
- Good Enough Urbanism
- The Biggest Blind Spot of Urban Greens?
- Share Everything: Why the Way We Consume Has Changed Forever
- Central cities now growing faster than suburbs, confirming trends for walkable lifestyles, shorter commutes
- Starving the cities to feed the suburbs
- Seattle Population, Kids, & Ownership vs. Top 100 Cities
- What's Behind San Francisco's Sudden Building Boom?
- The Great Decline Of American Driving
- The Uselessness of Economic Development Incentives
- Cities With Denser Cores Do Better
- Building Cities for the Families of Today
- The electorate becomes urban — will the Republican Party adapt?
- Embracing Congestion
- Seeing the back of the car
- New stats drive home Millennials' aversion to cars
- Denver Rethinks the Modern Commuter
- New Understanding of Traffic Congestion
- Now Coveted: A Walkable, Convenient Place
- When the 1 percent say no
- Pedaling to Prosperity: Biking Saves U.S. Riders Billions A Year
- USA Today: Subdivisions go urban as housing market changes
- Limiting density hurts low-income education
- In New Census Data, An Improved Outlook For Core Counties
- Why Young Americans Are Driving So Much Less Than Their Parents
- Death to the McMansion
- Are Mayors Asking Washington for the Wrong Thing?
- Retrofitting the Suburbs to Increase Walking
- Live smaller, work closer, shed excess
- Are we reaching ‘peak car’?
- The Cost of Congestion, The Value of Transit
- Sightline: Congestion: The Untold Story
- Parking tiff settled; stadium-lot development ready to go
- In The Future, The Only Jobs Left Will Be Green
- One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities
- Are We Reaching Peak Travel?
- There's No Housing Bottom In Sight
- More homebuyers want walkable, transit-served communities
- Scientific American Magazine: Cities Issue
- The end of the road for motormania
- Transit Access and Zero-Vehicle Households
- Seeing cities as the environmental solution, not the problem
- No 'show-stopper' reason why Vancouver's viaducts can't be removed
- TODs for Tots
- Companies head back downtown
- Six Reasons Driving Has Peaked in U.S. Cities
- CEOs for Cities: Housing Booms in Urban Cores
- Apartment developers bypass suburbs, target Seattle
- How the Great Reset Has Already Changed America
- The Role of Driving in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Oil Consumption
- James Howard Kunstler: Back to the Future
- The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme
- Why Building Roads Creates Traffic
- Mid-rise living: A new best practice?
- Is Las Vegas the new Detroit?
- Building More Roads Only Causes More Traffic
- Does smart growth reduce carbon emissions? Bet the house on it.
- For the first time since the suburbs became king in the 1960s, housing values there have fallen below those of their urban counterparts
- Affordable rental housing scarce in U.S., study finds
- No More Freeways: Urban Land Use Transportation Dynamics Without Freeway Capacity Expansion
- New Survey: Americans (Mostly) Prefer Smart Growth to Sprawl
- Don't want density? Perhaps you should pay for that right
- Green TODs
- Consider Transportation Cost to Make Fair Housing Practical
- Kick conventionally-fueled cars out of Europe's centers by 2050, European Commission urges
- UN report: Cities ignore climate change at their peril
- Transit-Oriented Development and Communities of Color: A Field Report
- City's design, transit system can ease gas costs (USA TODAY)
- Stop The Insanity (a.k.a. the Deep Bore Tunnel)
- Maybe we should try McGinn's idea to shut the viaduct now
- Todd Litman: The First Casualty of a Non-Existent War
- Study: Transit outperforms green buildings
- Smart Growth Helps Cities Adapt to Aging Boomers: EPA
- The Interdependence of Land Use and Transportation
- States that Spent on Public Transportation Created More Jobs
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