The Christian Science Monitor

Exurban developments are struggling to control their rampant foreclosure rates and plummeting housing values.

A systems admin in San Francisco apparently decided to bring San Francisco grinding to a halt, and refuses to divulge the passwords he set up across the city's entire network.

Four years after it hosted the Summer Olympics, Athens is questioning whether the $15 billion investment in venues that now largely sit unused was really worth it.

Residents of Florida's Everglades City have teamed up to preserve their local character and keep cookie-cutter development out.

Rising gas prices aren't just encouraging more transit use, they are making public transit more expensive, and charging more for tickets and passes hurt low-income riders the most.

The Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae crisis is resurrecting the debate over the role the federal government should play in the housing market.

The City of Miami is pushing a new 'mega-plan' that rolls a stadium, tunnel, public park, trolley system, and bailout into one $3 billion dollar deal. Miamians, including local car dealer Norman Braman, are pushing back.

As the number of sustainable buildings increase rapidly, ecologically friendly designs are shedding an ugly past for a sleeker and more striking future.

With gas prices at more than $9 per gallon in Britain, driving habits are changing.

Foreclosed homes are creating blight in urban and suburban areas all across the country, lowering property values by more than $200 billion.

Pennsylvania is putting its money where its mouth is with the Fresh Food Financing Initiative, a $120 million fund to encourage inner-city groceries.

This article from The Christian Science Monitor looks at how development, farm practices, and population growth have increased the risk of flooding.

Transit use is surging, but operators are facing the same fuel crunch as consumers and public monies for new investments aren't up to addressing the new demand.

'Ottoman villas' are going up, and the world's largest Roma settlement is moving out - to suburban apartments.

The federal government needs to recognize the economic power of the country's metropolises and work with them to create successful regions, according to a recent study from the Brookings Institution.

A charity in Britain wants to replicate the success of London's heavily used Speaker's Corner in other parts of the country to encourage public interaction and discussion. Some say it's an idea that could never be.

Plans to build a massive dam in Turkey have many hopeful that its creation will revive the local economy.

As Mayor Bloomberg moves forward with an eco-friendly redevelopment for the crumbling Willets Point neighborhood, locals feel pushed aside and complain that eminent domain is out of control.

The areas hardest-hit by the subprime mortgage crisis are not just low-income and minority communities, but also outer-ring suburbs.

That's how many are expected to inhabit the world by 2050. Experts worry over looming food shortages.