The Wall Street Journal

The nation's largest city without public transit is beginning to lean towards creating a bus system.

Engineering and environmental problems abound near China's Three Gorges Dam.

Five mansions on the U.S. housing market are looking to become the most expensive homes ever sold in the country, and maybe the world.

This column from The Wall Street Journal argues that the best way to prevent damages from natural disasters is not to fight carbon emissions, but to prevent people from living in disaster-prone areas.

Despite busts in residential construction, American cities such as Phoenix are managing to continue growing due to an influx of commercial construction.

A Wall Street Journal writer shares her family's experience in a neighborhood quickly being dominated by McMansions.

With space at a premium in a growing number of U.S. cities, developers are starting to include automated garages in their parking plans.

There is no doubt about it: London's 5-year-old congestion charge has transformed life in London. More people are taking the bus and trains, more people are biking, and fewer crashes occur. But there can be major hardships when the charge isn't paid.

The move towards organic, chemical-free lawn care is sending ripples through suburban neighborhoods across the country.

President Bush has often looked toward American technology to make voluntary carbon emission reductions, but that technology often must come from abroad, where industrialized countries are required to make emission reductions per the Kyoto Protocol.

Drivers are increasingly looking to save not only time but also gas money by utilizing high occupancy toll lanes in cities that have implemented tolls.

While some decry streetcars as expensive and inefficient, evidence is building in cities across the U.S. that the systems can serve as powerful boons to economic development.

Pennsylvania attracts more college students than any other state. Now officials are trying to figure out how to have the economy benefit further by getting them to stay after graduation.

One Alabama city's efforts at redevelopment serves as an example for communities struggling with the economic impact of a base closure.

Research by several economists shows that areas with a lack of child-care suffer economically, since parents are more likely to drop out of the workforce or move to communities with more options.

State and local governments are starting to demand money back from companies that receive tax breaks and grants to locate in their community, and then skip town.

While more states are approving commercial casinos in hopes of creating jobs and increasing tax revenues, economists are increasing skeptical of the benefits of legalized gambling.

In this special report, the WSJ examines the growing popularity of rail-based TODs, examining their effect on land values as well as the challenges they may face in obtaining approval.

Subprime lenders appears to have deliberately targeted some of America's poorest communities. The resulting wave of foreclosures could eliminate more homeowners than were added.

Communities are stepping up measures to prevent developments from fencing in public areas. The new round of protests comes as the amount of open land in the U.S. is shrinking.