Forbes

Three-dimensional "intelligent models" are helping to build high-profile projects around the world that embrace sustainable design.

Tax incentives that attract specific corporations to a city, region or state make for bad economic policy, and don't cause real growth. Memphis' Payment-in-Lieu-of-Tax (Pilot) program is used in this article as a case-in-point.

Could allowing homeowners in a community to pool their property for sale to a private developer be a suitable alternative to eminent domain powers?

Forbes identifies the top ten architects who are most influencing the American landscape.

An interview with architect Daniel Libeskind, master-plan designer for the new World Trade Center site.

From the garish to the sublime, from Palm Beach to Arkansas, the homes of the world's richest people offer something for everyone. [Includes a slide show.]

With mortgage rates below 3%, Americans can buy a cozy corner in one of the world's most romantic cities.

Forbes Magazine has released the best and worst metro areas for doing business, job growth, education attainment, and population.

Should municipalities provide telecom services such as Internet, telephone and cable TV?

Forbes offers a roundup of the ten worst cars on the market, based on worst crash test scores, lowest reliability and lowest residual values.

The first affordable housing project to combine special green building funding with federal low-income housing tax credits breaks ground in Seattle.

Towns hire Albert Norman to help keep out Wal-Mart.

Two new technologies -- automated toll collection and market pricing for roadways -- make market-based toll systems even better at relieving traffic congestion.

In our car-oriented culture, it's hard to find a truly awful car anymore. Forbes produces its list of the worst cars of all time.

By 2006, a third of the U.S. workforce is expected to telecommute. A USEPA and DOT initiative rewards commuter-friendly businesses.

A GPS-enabled handheld device running new Mapopolis software can track your location and warn you of slow traffic conditions ahead.

This pro-rail article argues high speed rail corridors are at least potentially profitable but long distance trains are inevitable losers.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors criticize a plan to cut Amtrak's federal funding.

Forbes Magazine compiles a list of the buildings that cost a fortune to build, but still look awful.

The technology exists to prevent traffic congestion. We just don't have the political will.