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Inside Our Winter 2008 Issue:
Reports from Crossing America
by Planning Comm'rs Journal Editor Wayne Senville

Downtown Futures

  • Like a Business Park with Amenities. How one West Virginia city is trying to "position" its downtown.
  • Behind the Curtains. The surprising impact that theater restorations can have in small city downtowns.
  • Coming Together, Coming Back. A remote Nevada town learns how to help itself.
  • A River Runs Through It. How developing a riverwalk has brought new life to a Colorado downtown.
  • Downtown Housing. Discovering that new downtown housing is not just a big city phenomenon anymore.
  • Future Downtowns. Why two outer-ring suburbs want their own downtown.

    National / Local

    Virtually every one of us is tied in to the national and global economy. While this has brought economic benefits, there are signs of an emerging trend towards the local.

    The Job of the Planning Commissioner

    Often on the front lines of heated disputes between developers and residents, planning commissioners do best by keeping their cool and running orderly, even-handed meetings.

    -- also in our Winter issue: Top Planning News of 2007. The Editors of Planetizen highlight some of the top planning-related news stories from the past year.

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