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		<title>Xavier de Souza Briggs on Failed Urban Policy and Proposals to &#8216;Tear Down HUD&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/xavier-de-souza-briggs-on-failed-urban-policy-and-proposals-to-tear-down-hud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about federal housing policy and its reform, and features comments by Professor Briggs (and further commentary by Peter Dreier and Dowell Myers below), but first a bit about its genesis. Some years ago, Univ. Buffalo&#8217;s Bill Page took the bold initiative to create a listserv for urban planning academics called PLANET. Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cities: The Missing Presidential Campaign Issue*</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/cities-the-missing-presidential-campaign-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Cities. That's what I'll tell the presidential candidates when they call for career advice, any day now I expect. Cities.

Because the downtowns and suburbs of cities, where the supermajority of Americans toil, relax, and puzzle out their lives -- our downtowns, suburbs and urban spaces between -- are invisible in the 2008 campaign.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Bogotá vs Curitiba</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/notes-on-bogota-vs-curitiba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curitiba, Brazil Bogotá is interesting and important for many reasons but I write only to draw some quick comparisons between it and the Latin American success story probably best known by U.S. planners: Curitiba, Brazil. We mostly know Curitiba for its visionary mayor, Jaime Lerner, who made as much progress as anyone in a metropolitan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manville, on Why We Don&#8217;t Use Congestion Pricing</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/manville-on-why-we-dont-use-congestion-pricing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Michael Manville, UCLA. Along with David King and Donald Shoup, I recently completed an article on the politics of congestion pricing, and Dave, Don and I are beginning another project on the same topic. Congestion pricing is getting a lot of press of late, and moving closer to reality, but politically it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Place-Based vs Person-Based Community Development Policies</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/place-based-vs-person-based-community-development-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[community development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planning debates over the relative merits and consequences of place-based (e.g., policing, enterprise zones, business improvement districts, neighborhood investment strategies, infrastructure, the gamut of supply-side urban development strategies, downtown redevelopment) versus people-based (e.g., training/education, some housing assistance programs, welfare as we knew it, means-tested transfers generally) are omnipresent, yet so far as I can tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olshansky, On Planning Following Catastrophic Disaster: Research Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Guest post by Rob Olshansky, professor and interim head of the urban &#38; regional planning program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) I have been studying post-disaster planning for several years, with a particular interest in catastrophic disasters. Fortunately for society, these don’t occur very often. But this infrequency poses a challenge to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On California Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/on-california-infrastructure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://planning-research.martacrane.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where to start? If this was the first lecture of a class on infrastructure, I&#8217;d probably run on for an hour about the wide variety of things and problems and places the subject covers, and then close with a proposed organizational and analytical scheme for making our way the following weeks. Part of the plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Markets Attack!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract: Revisiting the markets vs planning debate, but this time from a position of moral and intellectual superiority. First, this post would be better titled, &#8220;Planning vs. Markets (Or, Why Plan?),&#8221; but for now I am sticking with the more iconic Hollywood/military imagery. Second, kindly enjoy this typically pithy comment on planning thought, action, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suburbanization and Its Discontents</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/suburbanization-and-its-discontents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planners as therapists/entrepreneurs/office managers, or Random highlights from Harvard Design Magazine About 10 years ago, I gave a presentation with the title of this post for a conference on sprawl. There was talk of the conference proceedings becoming a book, so there was a plan to turn the talk into a chapter. Neither materialized. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To PC or not to PC? Researching Walmart</title>
		<link>http://planning-research.com/to-pc-or-not-to-pc-researching-walmart/</link>
		<comments>http://planning-research.com/to-pc-or-not-to-pc-researching-walmart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>randall Crane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[labor markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if your research gives the wrong answer? Marlon Boarnet and I have collaborated on a few projects over the years, almost always for the right reasons. Possibly the most noticed outside the ivory tower are a couple of fairly straightforward reports on Walmart. The first considered how its entry into the grocery markets of [...]]]></description>
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