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As Europe and Asia invest in high-speed rail, the U.S. continues to play politics with Amtrak -- leaving customers unhappy and taxpayers footing the bill.

Green development is gathering steam in Sal Lake City, where the downtown area is gaining popularity with new residents and developers.

President Hugo Chávez is guiding government plans to create several brand new cities to serve as models of social and environmental harmony.

Maryland residents are being pushed farther and farther away from Washington D.C. due to rising house prices.

After years of growth and development, the suburban Washington D.C. Dulles corridor is experiencing a development slowdown.

Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty has announced a broad plan to build affordable housing for the city's poor and low-income, as well as to impose measures that make it more difficult to convert buildings to luxury condos.

Deciding when aging and decaying buildings in history-rich Washington D.C. merit preservation raises many questions.

This article looks at Fort Belvoir, the mixed use military base.

A rash of building demolitions has erased more than 700 units of affordable housing in the Washington D.C. area, but replacement buildings have not been constructed.

After nearly 20 years, has the New Urbanist development Kentlands been successful at achieving its goal of creating a strong community?

As part of a new effort to increase access to housing, advocates are working in three target areas to try to find the best ways to create affordable workforce housing in areas that are typically too expensive for many blue-collar workers.

With many studies expounding on the urban 'heat island' effect, it seems that global climate change can be blamed on cities just as much as suburbs -- if not more so. Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres explain, and propose a greener suburb for the future.

A developer with plans for a major urban development in Bethesda, Maryland is trying to buy out an established community of 60 single-family homes.

This column from The Washington Post discusses the other most important criteria for development: timing.

Japan's population is aging, and could drop by more than one-quarter of its size within 50 years. Many are calling on the government to plan for the diminishing population, and for how it will affect many of the country's cities and suburbs.

Fast-paced growth in Loudoun County, Virginia, has created the need for more schools. In the past 11 years 37 have been built, boasting the precision and efficiency of an assembly line. But is faster better?

Washington D.C.'s Cultural Development Corporation is pushing condo conversions to create affordable housing for low-income artists.

New federal guidelines for disaster planning are being panned by state and local officials, citing a poorly-defined chain of command and unnecessary duplication.

Wal-Mart's efforts to reduce waste and operate in an environmentally-friendly manner has fueled a green business boom in an Arkansas town near the corporation's headquarters.

Suburban Washington D.C. residents are upset over a rash of new buildings in their neighborhoods that they say don't fit in with the character of their communities. It's not just that the houses are too big, but that they are housing too many people.