For my job, I read a lot of articles on urban policy and planning. I believe that the best policies are usually borrowed from other cities rather than fabricated from nothing. In that spirit, I even borrowed from other top ten lists to create this post. I like to think that my list is more comprehensive than some of the others since I have no incentive to link to my own content. Caveat emptor: I use the term planning loosely. Some of these are more inspirational than germane.

This multimedia feature about Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy is still my favorite planning related article (if you can call it that) of all time. But overall, 2013 was a good year.