North Carolina

Winston-Salem has its own high-profile new urbanist architects that have started a most unlikely design revolution.

For an experiment in managing growth, the town to watch is Currituck, N.C., just south of Virginia Beach and Chesapeake.

Kinston, NC, has become a model for other communities recovering from Hurricane Floyd.

The architects' designs for the City's new arena are met with a resounding sigh from the city council.

Several counties around the N.C. Research Triangle, one of the fastest growing regions in the nation, have recently had their planning directors resign, highlighting the increasing stress and political pressure placed on planners.

An activist zoning panel is struggling with builders and the city's planning commission to slow the region's growth, citing overcrowding schools and a deteriorating environment as symptoms of rampant development.

The region's sprawl along I-85 is beginning to draw comparisions to the sprawl of Northern New Jersey.

As Fayetteville, NC, tries to attract businesses to downtown areas, conflicts arise over what to do about historic architecture.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area is one of the nation's most sprawling metro regions.

The new University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chancellor is making architecture and urban design the top priority on campus.

The Charlotte, N.C. city council approved five principles to guide the design of their new arena.

An innovative program in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, precertifies industrial sites to mitigate environmental concerns.

A major mixed-use development is transforming one of the region's many office parks into a model smart growth community.

Reis.com, a resource of commercial real estate trends, looks at Raleigh-Durham and Cleveland in it's most current update.

Durham County is evaluating a proposed ordinance that would tie new development to existing school space.

More and more communities are realizing they need a downtown -- and trying to build them from scratch.

The city of Charlotte is preparing to break ground on its first light rail line next month after years of study and planning.

Students at UNC-Chapel Hill voted to help support a fare free bus system in the city that could carry 3 million rides.

In Charlotte, N.C. the only thing voters hate more then sprawl is density, something anti-spawl supporters are trying to change.

The Research Triangle is experiencing the national trend of slowing demand for office space, and that is making developers think twice.