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HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan talks with PBS about the department's new approach of integrating transportation and housing policy.

PBS documents Detroit's attempts to overcome its history as "the Motor City" to create new ways of getting people around. Transit advocates play a big part in this preview, which includes renderings of projected transit options.

Spain has rapidly developed high speed rail system, leaving many U.S. politicians -- including President Obama -- wondering how the U.S. can catch up. This article and video from PBS looks at the Spanish model.

The United States has a long history of planning at the national level. This article from Professor Robert Fishman details that history, and looks at how national planning may play out over the next 100 years.

Three cities - three directions on how their transportation infrastructure was shaped by national transportation and housing legislation, and the role of influential leaders like CO Gov. Lamm, OR representative Earl Blumenauer, and NY's Robert Moses.

An investigative report airing on PBS stations chronicles the corruption and mismanagement uncovered at the Miami-Dade Housing Agency over the past year.

John Norquist and Bart Peterson, the mayor of Indianapolis, discuss the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on eminent domain.

PBS Frontline asks what is the real cost of Wal-Mart's famous 'everyday low prices'.

The booming border city of Chula Vista, CA has designated land where it will develop a university and research center.

Two years ago, a documentary warned that hurricanes could drown New Orleans and that the risk was increasing every year.

A 90-minute account of the "the politics and pain of gentrification" premieres tonight on PBS.

Florida's largest private landowner has many developments planned for an environmentally sensitive area.

City of the Century chronicles Chicago's dramatic transformation from a swampy frontier town of fur traders and Native Americans to a massive metropolis that was the quintessential American city of the nineteenth century.

Ray Suarez takes a look at the effort to rebuild old neighborhoods in Philadelphia.

A hurricane could drown New Orleans and the risk increases every year.

A PBS special on the efforts to decide the future of Ground Zero airs tonight.

Architects Rem Koolhaus, Renzo Piano and Santiago Calatrava on the Charlie Rose Show tonight.

PBS' new series on how Americans live their lives uses Atlanta as a case study to focus on sprawl, low-income housing, shopping, and architecture.

The website for the PBS Frontline show titled "Rollover: The Hidden History of the SUV" presents an overview and excerpts from interviews.

PBS is featuring an outstanding documentary series discussing New York City and the history of planning.