Connecticut
More Condemnations Being Blocked
A Connecticut judge rules that the city of New London was not explicit enough in defining conditions for condemnation.
Wall St. Journal
Stamford, CT Living At Manhattan Rents
Best known to the planning world as a case study of the follies of 1950's slum clearance policies, Stamford gives mixed-use development a try.
The New York Times
Legal Circus Over Park and Beach Access
Residents Vs. Nonresidents; Money Vs. Slightly Less Money in Connecticut.
The New York Times
Eminent Domain: Is It Good Planning?
Eminent domain -- even to build much-needed schools -- has become a political tool, and not a planning tool in New Haven.
New Haven Register
Artists' Housing Can Revive Downtowns
Projects to provide artists housing in downtown areas can revive troubled downtowns.
The New York Times
Using GIS To Teach Land Use Planning
Using the Internet and GIS together, local officials in Connecticut are learning how to control land use for future generations.
Government Technology
Preserving Modernist Architecture?
Should preservationists fight to save a modern corporate office building?
The Boston Globe
Escape From Connecticut's Cities
This op-ed by Bruce Katz argues that in order for Hartford and other older cities in Connecticut to socially and economically recover, the cities and state need to take radical approaches.
The Brookings Institution


















