The Providence Journal

Housing advocates, public officials, and urban planners have joined forces in Rhode Island with a pledge of $10 million to support the preservation of open space by building more dense, mixed-use communities.

Researchers in Rhode Island find that residents in many parts of the state lack easy access to food.

After decades of ill-designed public housing that kept a clear line between the low-income and everyone else, a new movement is collecting momentum for more accurately integrating public housing into neighborhoods while protecting their character.

A Rhode Island Planning Board has approved regulations requiring developers to build affordable houses in all projects over 6 units.

The planned $222.5 million transit hub will seamlessly link T.F. Green Airport with Providence and Boston by 2009.

Decades of metropolitan growth have outstripped most American cities' ability to provide adequate infrastructure, leaving them extremely vulnerable to disruption.

New England's second biggest city is experiencing a wealth of revitalization, and nowhere else is it more evident than in downcity, a district reconceptualized by Andres Duany in the 1990's.

Though the practicality of the Congress for the New Urbanism's Mississippi charettes have been called into question, Providence Journal editor David Broussat wonders what all the fuss is about.

Scott Wolf, executive director of Grow Smart Rhode Island, proposes a "bold" strategy for maintaining Rhode Island's rural communities.

Citing economic reasons the University of Rhode Island announced that it will begin the process of closing down one of two publicly funded graduate planning programs in New England.

Universities are investing heavily in Providence, RI.

New rail line's two stations would significantly reduce commuter traffic on highways into Providence.

David Brussat criticizes Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Daniel Libeskind, and wonders if architecture has "hit the bottom".

This New England city has one of the lowest number of urban trees per capita.

Bristol, RI seeks to protect historic districts, by adopting strict guidelines for chain stores and franchises.

Portsmouth, a rural town on Aquidneck Island, hopes to create a new mixed-use center using New Urbanist principles and traffic calming techniques.

The grassroots group hires an "anti-sprawl superhero" to fight big-box development.

A new report urges leaders to devise ways to make the city's once-thriving retail hub more appealing to tourists, university students, club-goers and people who work downtown.

Craig Johnson says his town is under attack from "the unstoppable forces of sprawl."