A post from Dean Frank Gilliam, who is currently traveling in China...

I'm on my way to Tianjin University with National Urban League president Mark Morial. We're at the Beijing South Train Station, which is solar powered! By the way, for a fascinating read on China's urban planning challenges, check out Professor Randy Crane's blog: http://planning-research.com/top-5-challenges-to-integrating-land-use-an...

A post from Dean Frank Gilliam, who is currently traveling in China...

I am in Beijing this week, as part of the National Urban League's Trade and Cultural Mission delegation.

From Professor Matt Kahn's blog, greeneconomics.blogspot.com:

I missed this announcement 2 weeks ago that the Air Resources Board will take the revenue collected from California's Carbon Cap and Trade and give the $20 billion dollar a year flow back "to the people".

From the L.A. Times: A collaboration between the global citizen's initiative known simply as GOOD, the Public Studio and Sheridan/Hawkes (comprised of Urban Planning grads Amber Hawkes and Georgia Sheridan), the afternoon think tank "LA 2.0: Refresh, Reinvent, Re-imagine"--was held on Saturday December 5, 2009 and called up urban practitioners to outline strategies to improve the physical environment of L.A.

Matt Kahn writes:

Jorja Leap assesses a new presecutors tool--anti gang statutes:

From the Voice of San Diego:

by Jack Rothman

Laura Abrams presented her ideas on juvenile justice and reentry from incarceration at a Congressional briefing in DC on November 16, 2009.

Here's a note from Jorja Leap, adjunct associate professor of social welfare, reporting in from her travels--

"I am in Seattle, WASHINGTON today as a featured speaker at the U.S. Department of Labor YouthBuild Gang Summit. I will be speaking on "Key Characteristics of Effective Approaches in Addressing Gang Violence and Related Harm."

Envy the lucky travelers of London. As you may know, in 2003 the city imposed a congestion toll of £5 (later raised to £8) on all vehicles entering the central district. In 2007, Transport for London, a government agency, did a cost-benefit analysis of the impacts (find the full report here).

It found the following about costs per year to travelers in the central district: