Wall St. Journal

Many major architects now have their own version of prefab housing.

Many predicted that 9/11 marked the end of the age of the skyscraper. Nothing could have been more wrong.

Two professors describe the possible economic consequences when the housing bubble begins to deflate.

The Wall Street Journal reviews two new books about developer James Rouse -- possibly the individual with the greatest effect on America's 20th-century built environment.

More than one in 10 Americans now reside in micropolitan areas -- towns with 10,000 to 49,999 people.

July marks the fourth consecutive month of declining on-time performance. One Amtrak train arrives 35 hours late to El Paso.

The Michigan Supreme Court rules that Detroit's 1981 eminent domain seizures of Poletown homes for a General Motors plant was not legal.

A new study concludes that many traffic jams could be prevented if onein five vehicles on the road used new adaptive cruise-control.

The Wall Street Journal reviews Hayden's "A Field Guide to Sprawl" and Gutfreund's "Twentieth-Century Sprawl."

As demographics change, builders change housing products to focus on rapidly increasing one and two-person 'non-nuclear' families.

Alex McDowell was asked by Steven Spielberg to build the set for the movie, "The Terminal", and built a 'fantasy terminal' in just eight months.

A dispute among residents, environmentalists town officials leads to an exodus from the posh Georgica Pond region of East Hampton.

Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey examines the book, One With Nineveh, to find out what environmental catastrophes await us.

Could a wave of expiring tax credits projects represent new opportunities for apartment building investors?

Experimental homes are testing the limits of technology. Your future home may use technology to watch you live.

The master plan for rebuilding Ground Zero has been dealt a mortal blow by the limited insurance payout. But perhaps this is for the better?

Asbury Park, N.J., was known as 'Beirut by the shore' until a $1.2 billion redevelopment project sparked the creation of a gay mecca.

An innovative new private equity fund s dedicated to building homes in Los Angeles's inner city.

New designs for affordable housing, feature masonry detailing, copper trim and lush landscaping.

Facing a tightening supply of elegant older buildings, real-estate developers are turning to 1970's-era ugly buildings and transforming them into the hottest new-home addresses around.