{"72693":{"#nid":"72693","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Half-Measures: Recap of World Town Planning Day in Atlanta led by the Student Planning Association","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022[Mayor Bucky] Johnson seemed most sanguine about [political] constraints: while the list is \nnot perfect, the process was as legitimate and transparent as he and his\n collaborators could make it, and the resulting list provides funds for a\n wide range of very useful projects. [Tom] Weyandt, for his part, was more \nemphatic about the imperfections of the process and the results - he \nactually used the phrase \u0022the art of the possible\u0022 - but seemed to \naccept that this is the best that can be done under the circumstances; \none has to start somewhere. [Colleen] Kiernan was bluntly dismissive of the \nprocess and of the project list, questioning the legitimacy of the whole\n enterprise, and suggesting a more radical approach: raising gasoline \ntaxes while removing the constitutional restriction on the use of the \nrevenue, allowing for a more comprehensive approach to transportation \nplanning, and possibly for a more radical reconfiguration of the built \nenvironment.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27215","created_gmt":"2011-11-15 14:33:39","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:13","author":"Mike Alberghini","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Low Temperature Cu-Cu and Hybrid Bonding","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/sustainablecitiescollective.com\/robert-kirkman\/31326\/half-measures-world-town-planning-day-atlanta","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9936","name":"Robert Kirkman"},{"id":"15088","name":"tia"},{"id":"15087","name":"transportation investment act"},{"id":"15089","name":"transportation referendum"},{"id":"5020","name":"world town planning day"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}