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Plan to regulate food trucks stuck on slow boil
Columbus Dispatch (OH)May 20--Because of complaints from food-truck owners about Columbus' plan to regulate the popular m...
Capital area commuters increasingly relying on transit
Frederick News-Post (MD)May 20--More capital-area workers are ditching their cars and taking transit to commute, according ...
More visitors than usual expected in Gettysburg this summer for 150th events
York Daily Record (PA)May 20--YORK, Pa -- Every summer, tourists come to Gettysburg in their cars, trucks and vans, causi...
Ordinanceis intended to make it easier for people who want to keep domestic honeybees
South Bend Tribune (IN)May 19--SOUTH BEND -- First birds, now bees....
Will Boston-Hyannis train fly?
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)May 19--Onlookers gathered along the railroad tracks on Saturday afternoon, using smartphones and d...
After use, companies inject fracking water underground
Dominion Post (Morgantown, WV)May 19--When frack water can't be used anymore it has to go somewhere....
Upcoming Events
Tuesdays at APA — May 21 in DC: "The Mutating Big Box"; May 21 in Chicago: "Planning Chicago: Reviving a Place for Planning in the City" CM
L'Enfant Lecture — May 28 in Rotterdam: Renée Jones-Bos, Former Ambassador to the United States from the Netherlands. CM
Planners Training Workshops — June 11-14: Four two-day workshops in Seattle. CM
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New Publications from APA
Planning Chicago
Urban planning might have been born in Chicago, but that was more than a century ago, in a very different city. In Planning Chicago, read the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958. Over the ensuing decades, planning did much to develop the Loop, protect Chicago's famous lakefront, and encourage industrial growth and neighborhood development in the face of national trends that savaged other cities. But planning also failed some of Chicago's communities and did too little for others. The Second City is no longer defined by its past and its myths but by the nature of its emerging postindustrial future.
Planning for the Deceased
Can better cemeteries make better communities? As the baby boom generation ages, demand for interment is inevitably rising. The way planners respond will have lasting impact on cities and towns. This sensible yet sensitive guide addresses questions planners everywhere are facing. The authors look at public health implications, private versus public interests, planning and zoning concerns, and the complex web of state and federal oversight. The discussion also explores emerging alternatives to traditional interment, from cremation to burial at sea.