The Kansas City Star

"Progress" and developers are carelessly expanding the reach of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

A new downtown facility will serve as a training ground for architecture students from Kansas State and the University of Kansas.

On the Kansas side of Metro area, officials still include thinks it needs more roads to ease sprawl created congestion.

A group of planners and architects has put forth an alternative light rail proposal that they believe is more practical than a plan already approved by voters.

As Kansas City pushes forward with light rail plans, the mayor wants to expand the system to a regional scale.

The town of Blue Springs, Missouri, has turned to a form-based code to help revitalize its downtown and improve predictability for residents and developers alike.

In Kansas City, Missouri, voters just elected their former city auditor as their new mayor. One of the unlikely campaign issues: the use of tax increment financing for developers.

Plans for a light rail system in Kansas City may move forward only by sacrificing the city's bus system. Federal funding currently supporting the buses would have to be diverted to the proposed light rail system, adversely affecting bus service.

FBI statistics that identify Kansas City as having the most violent crime in the nation fortify results from a recent survey of residents who are more concerned about crime than residents of the reigning "most dangerous city in America", St. Louis.

The Kansas City Star newspaper created an extensive methodology to do a report card on city neighborhood trends and then rank the best neighborhoods within Kansas City, Missouri.

This month Kansas City, Missouri, voters approved a petition-initiated light rail plan that specified the use of wireless technology. Will the city be the first in the U.S. to use it?

Kansas City voters approved a light rail plan that was opposed by the regional transit agency -- who called it a fantasy and ungrounded in reality.

With an urban renaissance already underway, local designers are pushing the city to recognize the importance of good architecture and urban design.

To counter the growing backlash against suburbia from urban dwellers and environmentalists, one Kansas museum wants to establish a center dedicated to the study of the 'burbs.

The Kansas City Star newspaper used nearly two-dozen quality-of-life indicators to rate and rank some 40 suburbs around Kansas City.

The struggling Mission Center Mall has been sold to a New York based developer with plans to overhaul it into a dense mixed-use development.

Retail Construction Magazine ranks RED Development as the second largest retail constructor.

A master plan for the St. Louis riverfront will begin shortly to improve connections with the Mississippi River and downtown St. Louis.

How an obscure government agency and the man who leads it implement the Bush administration's environmental policies.

Does city staff need to 'dumb down' decision making if private negotiations are opened to the public?