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Activating the Civic Commons in San Jose’s Guadalupe River Park
Justin Flynn et al, December 2, 2020. Despite the pandemic, a class of 14 urban planning graduate students at San José State University spent the fall 2020 semester helping to survey, revitalize, and activate the city’s downtown linear park, a critical civic asset.
Meet a local planner – Elizabeth “Libby” Tyler, Ph.D., FAICP
By Catarina Kidd, AICP. Libby Tyler worked in both the public and private sectors and in planning education. Her longest…
Megaproject planning in a pandemic
By Timothy Rood, AICP, and José Ruano, December 2, 2020. To reach populations typically underrepresented in planning, the City offered…
An overview of historical reports on HUD User
November 17, 2020. A collection of 1,750 scanned historical reports and archived publications — going back to 1910 — is…
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