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Learning from planning experts such as UCLA's Donald Shoup, San Francisco is developing a new paradigm for car parking with meter prices set by market demand and apps to allow drivers to find spaces and pay for them on their smartphone, with New York following in its wake, as Catesby Holmes of My Parking Sign shows.

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Sceptical of the narrative that cities have wholeheartedly embraced urban gardening initiatives, Matt DelSesto spies a connection between city crackdowns on urban gardens and police crackdowns in poor communities. He argues that we should seek to connect urban movements rather than simply count and control them with abstract policy.

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Beware a selective reading of history

City planner Jamaal Green warns us not to forget the undercurrents of racism and assimilationism present in the settlement house and social centre movements of a century ago.

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Cities with sound financial management should not have to pay a higher interest rate because of another city's mismanagement. This is the reasoning behind allowing an EFM to overrule a democratically elected city council in distress.

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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.

Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.

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