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Planners know that architecture is a profession closely aligned with urban planning.  read more »

I recently saw a good story about Gary, Indiana  read more »

After over a decade of mismanagement and misdirection under governors Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown, Californians now can double down by electing the latest aspiring Gubernatorial candidate: billion  read more »

The surprisingly easy election of the Marxist Zohran Mamdani represents a critical turning point, not only for my hometown of New York, but for all the West.  read more »

The Balkan region has impressive potential for knowledge intensive jobs in Europe. While Albania is far behind, there is a strong growth of knowledge intensive jobs.  read more »

Gavin Newsom’s run for the White House is going from bad to worse.  read more »

Disneyland’s founding vision 70 years ago was civic, not commercial—a place where design made family belonging feel natural.  read more »

As in his first term, Donald Trump now presides over a visibly sinking ship as his approval ratings slide. MAGA, a movement built around the personality of one man  read more »

For some years, the University of Minnesota’s Accessibility Observatory has produced major metropolitan area (labor markets) job access estimates for the average worker  read more »

In a recent focus group we held with 11 U.S. and foreign-born Latinos in Riverside, California, most of the participants expressed grave concerns about the breakup of hard-working and law-abiding families in what one participant called ICE’s “war” against Latinos.  read more »