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New Urbanists Convene in "Sprawlanta" Seeking Solutions to "Bright Flight"

Musician David Byrne joins the HUD secretary and transportation specialists in an effort to reinvigorate city centers.READ MORE

Richard Florida's Creative Destruction, Spatial Fix and The Great Reset

What doesn’t kill cities during this crisis will make them stronger. This is Richard Florida’s diagnosis in The Great Reset, which picks up where his last foray into pop economic geography, Who’s Your City? left off. READ MORE

Texas Sprawl Goes Out With a Bang, Development Sprouts on Irving Transit Line

With 2,715 pounds of dynamite Sunday, 40-year-old Texas Stadium -- the one with the hole in its roof, “so God can watch his favorite team play” -- was reduced to 2 million pounds of steel scrap and 4 million pounds of ...READ MORE

Is Haiti a Laboratory for New Urbanists? What the Country Really Needs Is Old Urbanism

Last Wednesday, Haitian president René Préval asked the international aid community for $3.8 billion to rebuild his shattered country after January’s devastating earthquake. In what amounted to a fund-raiser at the United ...READ MORE

Demolishing Density in Detroit: Can Farming Save the Motor City?

So it's come to this: Unable to provide basic services for all of his constituents, Detroit mayor Dave Bing is drafting plans starve his city down to a manageable size. Using proprietary data and a survey released by Data Driven ...READ MORE

HP Invents a "Central Nervous System for Earth" and Joins the Smarter Planet Sweepstakes

Hewlett Packard announces the first commercial application of its holistic blueprint for smarter cities: "CeNSE" (Central Nervous System for the Earth). But what sets HP apart from its rivals is its determination to create a smarter planet almost entirely within house, from sensors of its own design and manufacture to servers and software to the consultants who will tie it all together.READ MORE

Cisco Plans to Make a Massachusetts City Smarter, Rather Than Build One From Scratch

Cisco signed a deal on Wednesday with Holyoke, Massachusetts to transform the onetime mill town into a "Smart+Connected Community" over the next six-to-twelve months. Cisco has moved aggressively into the smarter city business in ...READ MORE

Can Port-au-Prince Be Saved, or Should Haiti Move the Capital?

The real question facing Haiti isn't whether to rebuild the capital or move it inland; it's how do you build a city that creates opportunities instead of slums?READ MORE

Introducing The Master Plan: A Chronicle of New Urbanism and Exurban Decay

"I was in California," the consummate ad man Don Draper rhapsodized last season in Mad Men. "Everything's new, and it's clean. The people are full of hope. New York is in decay." The suburban landscape that awed him circa 1963 was ...READ MORE

How Sandridge Natural Gas Could Turn Oklahoma City Into an Urban Hot Spot

A one-time cow town, oil town, and even a tent city (when it was founded during the 1889 land rush), Oklahoma City is urgently trying to reinvent itself as the next big city in America. If "America is the Saudi Arabia of natural ...READ MORE

The Central Park International Airport Hoax, Explained

The Internet raged in response to a shadowy organization's plans to raze New York's Central Park in favor of an airport, Strawberry Fields be damned. We unravel the mystery.READ MORE