My weekly curation of news and views for urbanists:

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  The Value of Transportation Enhancements; Or, Are Walking and Cycling Really Transportation? An important current policy debate concerns whether the next U.S. federal surface transportation reauthorization should require spending on “enhancements,” which finance projects such as walkways, bike paths, highway landscaping and historic preservation. (Planetizen)

• Planned Communities Are People, Too: The future of planned communities will involve lessons learned by the industry’s greenfield pioneers that can be applied to smaller, denser, and more complex projects in the urban core and inner ring. (Urban Land Institute)

• The Canadian Government’s New Web 2.0 Guidelines: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly: For those uninterested in reading the 31 page, 12,055 word guidelines document here’s a review (David Eaves)

• The Lure of the City—A Review by Edwin Heathcote: This collection of essays edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald mounts a defence of life in urban space. (Financial Times)

• Building diverse communities: ‘Ethnic enclaves’ are raising concern all over the world, but can they be good for a city? (Calgary Herald)