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Urban Reads: What is Placemaking Anyway?
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Urban Reads: AI Comes to Urban Planning, With Mixed Results
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Urban Reads: New California Law Will Remove Barriers to Development
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Urban Reads: Follow Tokyo’s Lead on Housing?
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Urban Reads: What Are the Effects of Remote Work?
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Urban Reads: How Environmental Law Is Being Misused
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Urban Reads: Cities Exploring Demand-Based Street Parking
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Urban Reads: Austin Drops Parking Requirements
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Urban Reads: Study Shows Narrow Travel Lanes are Safer
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Urban Reads: How to Overcome Urban Car Dependence
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Urban Reads: $7.5 Billion for EV Chargers, None Built Yet
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Urban Reads: Salt Lake City Had Nation’s Best Pandemic Recovery
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Urban Reads: Automakers Paid Tesla to Make Electric Vehicles
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Urban Reads: Detroit Considers Switch to Land-Value Tax
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Urban Reads: Is Zero Emissions Delivery Possible?
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Urban Reads: The Rise Of The ‘Introvert Economy’
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Urban Reads: The Connection Between Trees and Health
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Urban Reads: The Relationship Between Third Spaces and Happiness
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Urban Reads: Climate Researchers Hope Vulnerability Index Will Influence Policy
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Urban Reads: Unions Take on the Housing Crisis
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Urban Reads: U.S. Drivers Increasingly Distracted by Phones
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Urban Reads: Could Dynamic Pricing be Helpful for Cities?
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Urban Reads: Will Climate Change Push People to Northern Cities?
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Urban Reads: What Happened to Compact Cars?
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Urban Reads: Why Has Condo Construction Collapsed in the US?
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Urban Reads: Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Scooter Sharing
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Urban Reads: Construction Starts on Las Vegas to L.A. High Speed Rail Line
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Urban Reads: What is Fueling Car Bloat?
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Urban Reads: How to Find Your ‘Third Place’
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Urban Reads: Jane Jacobs, The City Cyclist
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Urban Reads: America’s Largest Medicaid Insurer to Help Build $1B of...
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Urban Reads: What is a Groundscraper?
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Urban Reads: Why Has the Walkable City Been Villainized?
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Urban Reads: Number of Super Commuters is Rising
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Urban Reads: How Traffic Noise Impacts Children’s Brains
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Urban Reads: How Cities Can Learn From Paris’ Urban Transportation Policy
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Urban Reads: Oakland Launches Universal Basic Mobility Program
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Urban Reads: Delivery Hubs Could Change Urban Cargo Delivery
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Urban Reads: Global Cities are Building New Transit Lines, U.S. Falling Behind
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Urban Reads: Is Your Commute Harming Your Health?
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Urban Reads: Sydney Opens New Metro Line
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Urban Reads: Chicago Considers Opening its Own Grocery Stores
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Urban Reads: The School Bus Crisis
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Urban Reads: How Strip Malls Failed the Burbs
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Urban Reads: Car Loans Now Second-Highest Household Debt
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Urban Reads: Rethinking La Rambla
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Urban Reads: Japan’s Iconic Bullet Train Turns 60
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Urban Reads: Do $1 Housing Schemes Work?
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Urban Reads: Oregon Considers a Universal Basic Income Program
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Urban Reads: The Greening of Concrete
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