Connecticut

The Shops at Evergreen Walk creates a community gathering place, with fewer scary teenagers, among high-end retail shops.

Officials hope to revive service between Central Connecticut and New York City for the first time in 35 years.

Two leaders of the smart growth movement, former Maryland Gov. Perris Glendening and former New Jersey Gov. and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, highlight some of the lessons learned from other states.

The house of Susette Kelo, the plaintiff in the landmark eminent domain lawsuit will be relocated as part of an undisclosed settlement.

One man's Connecticut home has no electricity, heating, air-conditioning, running water, or even conventional walls. He's made a structure of hay and stucco his home for 20 years, and his meager lifestyle causes little or no harm to the environment.

The decision Monday further enforces a 2005 Supreme Court decision allowing a Connecticut city's use of eminent domain to increase commercial development, though necessary court approval could delay the eviction of the two final tenants for months.

A year after high court's key decision, New London, Conn., voted to evict homeowners.

Anthony Perrotti owns hundreds of crime- and drug-infested apartments in the New Haven area, yet claims to have done little wrong. What gives?

A New Jersey native wants to see Garden State sprawl head north.

The region's transportation network is beginning to buckle under the strain of auto-dependence, write Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson.

The Connecticut home of the gun manufacturing giant has been dead for decades, but Colt Gateway, a tax-increment financing project, could give it new life.

A Connecticut suburb could have so much underground lead that 114 houses may be demolished –- but is the threat real?

WSJ columnist Melanie Kirkpatrick tells the story of Susette Kelo: From humble abode to eminent domain.

City of New Haven seeks innovative, cost-effective ways to curtail municiapl energy expenses and could be a model for municipalities across the nation.

Connecticut's cities' zoning codes -- many based on MuniCode's bolierplate code -- make sprawl ineveitable.

Despite Connecticut's well developed commuter railroad and congested highways, there has been little effort devoted towards encouraging transit oriented development in the state. That may be about to change.

After decades of decline, New Haven and other mid-size cities see a positive population trend.

Interviews with residents subject to eminent domain reveal intimidation tactics used by local government officials.

U.S. Supreme Court rules that local governments may seize homes and businesses for private economic development.

The Supreme Court ponders whether New London, Connecticut, has gone too far.