After a several week hiatus, the Friday Five is back with a sample of the most interesting articles I’ve read this week.

• Cars Suck: A look at some reasons why our love affair with the automobile must stop. (Daily Kos)

• Could Social Media Revolutionise the Planning System? How social media could open up the planning system through the vast amount of data being generated by social media interactions. (This Big City)

• Ten Things I Have Learned: A list of ten important things that graphic designer Milton Glasser, has learned about the world of work. Milton is perhaps best known for the I ‘heart’ NY logo. Originally part of an AIGA talk in London November, 2001. (Milton Glasser)

• Livable Cities and Political Choices: Why people need to stop looking at cities as technical problems to solve and how they would live in different type of cities, from car free to suburbia. (Planetizen)

• New Urbanism for the Apocalypse: The founder of new urbanism has declared that its time has past. What is going to replace it? (Fast Company)