Michigan Land Use Institute

Delay could spell trouble for international agreement to safeguard Great Lakes.

Offbeat lawmaker presses Congress to get in step on quality of life.

Fresh crop of innovative producers makes money, keeps land in farming.

Former Michigan Governor Jim Blanchard has proposed an innovative, city-oriented 50-point urban agenda for the state.

A nation of nervous travelers has yet to contemplate the other knee-quaking environmental and urban consequences of our fly-drive society.

Buses and trains are key to Michigan's competitiveness. Unfortunately, the state has spent the last decade laying more pavement.

Farm Bill can encourage farm entrepreneurs, control sprawl.

A church-based community development organization is leveraging new rail transit to transform one of Chicago's roughest neighborhoods.

The Rogue River is healthy and full of fish -- and stretches right through several urban areas.

U.S. cities are reversing "auto-centric, sprawl-inducing" trends with a renewed interest in rail.

In Montana, hunting for a new pact with nature.

Michigan's natural rivers are attracting strong civic attention.

Urban sprawl almost certainly poses a far greater threat to your health than bioterrorism.

Is Detroit's sour attitude to public transportation finally ending? It looks that way in the city that invented mass production of private vehicles and ardently pursued the nation's sprawling development patterns.

The holidays remind columnist Roberta Gratz about how quickly pedestrian life is fading from most communities.

Spreading out aggravates underlying causes of 9/11 attack.

One lesson from the terrorist attack is that people avoided modern, out-of-scale development.

Church strengthens Michigan's Smart Growth movement.

Communities benefit when schools are physically closer to communities.

Congress can help to contain sprawl by creating new markets for small farms in the 2002 Farm Bill.