Missouri

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.

The successful New Urbanist town of New Town in St. Charles, Missouri, is looking for a farmer for its organic farm.

Responding to a housing crunch, Manhattan volunteers will count all abandoned properties in the city this weekend in an effort to utilize any and all buildings available. The count is aimed at identifying new sites for affordable housing.

A city does not consider an unmarried couple and their children a family and denies them an occupancy permit.

Reversing a steady decline in population since the 1950s, Census estimates show growth since 2003. People are moving back to St. Louis due to investment downtown and throughout the city.

The bill advancing through the state House distinguishes between eminent domain justifications, from tax revenue to blight removal.

Transportation planners in Kansas City, Missouri, make the left side of the road the "right" side in order to ease congestion.

When CBS profiled the suburban community of Webster Park, outside of St. Louis, few in the neighborhood realized how their culture would appear to outside observers.

The city lags well behind most others, despite a pilot program that has been in place for nearly a decade.

Three new developments in the Ozarks will be based on New Urbanist principles.

The failed St. Louis Centre mall has divided development patterns, and boosters are waiting for an outside investor to make his move.

For the second consective year, the Census Bureau has revised the population estimate for the City of St. Louis, resulting in a continued rise in population since the 1950 Census.

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

Despite incentives by other counties and states, Express Scripts, one of the largest pharmacy benefits managers in the nation, is accepting a deal to stay in St. Louis.

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.

Lifestyles, high gas prices, and the Smart Commute Initiatve combine to provide ample incentive to ride transit in St. Louis.

More than $2.5 billion has been committed to 125 projects as part of a plan to reinvigorate downtown St. Louis.

In Kansas City, a publicity campaign seemed to curtail crime in a bad neighborhood, but will the good times roll?