- Perceived High Costs Prevent Many People from Eating More Produce
Miami Herald A USDA report says that while people say high costs prevent them from eating more produce, consumers can get the recommended three servings of fruits and four servings of vegetables daily for just 64 cents. (August 1)
- PPS Assists San Mateo in Transforming State Highway into Grand Boulevard
San Mateo County Times Mission Street in Daly City, CA, will undergo a transformation from a high-speed state highway into a boulevard; goals include beautifying the street, calming the traffic, assisting local businesses, and making the street more pedestrian friendly. (August 4)
- Architects Need to Balance Security and Accessibility
NY Newsday The architects' dilemma is how to encourage people to enter while keeping danger at bay. (August 4)
- Suburban Retailers' Influx Poses a Threat to the Experience of City Neighborhoods
NY Newsday New Yorkers are contemplating a new wave of suburban-style retail in the city with a mixture of consumer eagerness and fear. (August 5)
- Atlanta Residents Turning Abandoned School Site into Neighborhood Park
USA Today After a decade of grass-roots lobbying and fundraising, construction will begin on Cabbagetown Park next month, turning the abandoned school grounds into an oasis of walking trails, trees, fountains, benches, and a small amphitheater. (August 6)
- Derelict Rail Line Could be NYC's Newest Park
Christian Science Monitor Friends of the Highline is working to raise funds to convert an elevated rail line into a public promenade. (August 6)
- Farmers' Markets Becoming a Sprawling, Fruitful Industry
Houston Chronicle Farmers' markets proliferate across the country, offering ultra-fresh produce, plants and flowers directly from grower to consumer. (August 8)
- To Make a City Bloom, Planners Should Focus On the Basics
Columbus Dispatch Making a city more livable is often about addressing the basics of creating a safe, comfortable place to live, work and play. (August 10)
- Tenn. Governor Suggests Mass Transit for Smokies Towns
Atlanta Constitution-Journal Gov. Phil Bredesen said Thursday a mass transit system may help air quality and relieve traffic congestion in the tourist towns of the Great Smoky Mountains. (August 13)
- Local Food Movement Encourages Americans to Think Globally, and Eat Locally
Boston Globe A socially conscious local-food movement prioritizes buying local products, supporting economies around you, and trying to keep local farms resisting industrialized farming and real estate pressures. (August 15)
- Black Farmers Find Profit in Trucking Southern Produce to Midwest Buyers
Washington Post Competition from corporate farms, rising taxes, and discrimination in receiving government subsidies and bank loans has black southern farmers participating in a program that has them bringing their produce north to sell for higher prices. (August 16)
- Kansas City Should Focus on Creating Destinations
Kansas City Star Fred Kent encourages Kansas City to create places that people will enjoy, rather than remove human activity from its public spaces. (August 17)
- Churches Use Innovative Architecture to Draw Visitors and Improve Neighborhoods
New York Times Hoping to recreate the “Bilbao Effect,” church officials in Italy not only want to bring more visitors in, but also want the bold and unorthodox designs to help improve struggling neighborhoods. (August 19)
- Urban Exiles Find Second Careers Working the Earth
Washington Post A small number of city dwellers who are tired of urban life are finding second careers as farmers, selling their crops at farmers markets. (August 22)
- RPA Looks Out for the Public’s Interest
New York Times The Regional Plan Association, an organization that makes certain that whatever gets built in the New York City region is in the public's interest, supports a plan to expand the Javits Center, but opposes the Jets Stadium proposed for Manhattan’s West side. (August 24)
- Is 'Keep Off the Grass' Elitist?
New York Times Is Central Park a serene "church" for reflective New Yorkers or a bustling "town square" for the masses? (August 29)
- A Building Is an Eyesore and Must Go? Grade it X
New York Times Concerned with architectural eyesores marring cities, a London architect has proposed categorizing buildings that deserved to be torn down. (August 30)
- Connecticut Sets Out to Fix a New Agenda for Highways
New York Times Connecticut transportation administrations must balance preserving the state’s rural character and coastline with the reality of being a crucial part of the northeast corridor. (August 30)
- To Save a Town, Why Did They Destroy It?
Business Week Santa Maria, CA, used to be a city of small stores and Main Street lives. Now, all that is gone -- and so is its soul. (August 30)
- Utah Groups Take on Task of Blending Transport Needs
Salt Lake Tribune Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Utah are working together to develop a visioning process to look at land use and growth in concert with long-range transportation planning. (September 6)
