Architecture
Twelve Most Distinctive Towns
The National Trust for Historic Preservation names its twelve picks for the 2001 list of most distinctive towns.
A Built Environment Enhanced By Design
California State Architect Stephan Castellanos envisions a place with not just aesthetic, but responsible design.
Anchorage Weakens Big Box Zoning Proposal
Anchorage, AK, is trying to decide on an ordinance that limits huge stores but does not scare away developers.
Beautiful Billboards
Columbia, South Carolina is using unsold billboards to display public art.
Translucent Concrete: Will It Transform Architecture?
It is still very much in the research stage, but could translucent concrete dramatically transform buildings and cities?
Central European Architecture Visits L.A.
How do you make order and logic in a city? The same questions that faced medieval planners face planners today.
California Parks Awarded Largest Grant Ever
California state officials approve $388 million in grants to cities and counties for improving parks.
Building Smart, Building Green
Several new projects in Minnesota are using energy-efficient building practices to develop sustainable buildings and neighborhoods.
Field Of Dreams
New baseball stadiums with retro architectural designs are returning to the central city and participating in the revitalization of the downtown.
Aldo Rossi: Metaphor and Memory
Aldo Rossi, author of "The Architecture of the City," captured memories in his architecture.
Community Gardeners Flower New Hope
Efforts have been renewed to preserve community gardens.
Park On A Bridge
Planners are looking to put a park-on-a-bridge over Fort Washington Way in downtown Cincinnati.
Environmental Group Criticized For Sprawl
The new headquarters for the National Wildlife Federation, touted as being a model for environmental design, is criticised for contributing to suburban sprawl.
Cities Bet On Ultramodern Museums
Museums across the nation are spending $3 billion on new projects. Newsweek reviews designs, architects, and controversies surrounding the nation's unprecedented museum boom.
Townships Embrace New Urbanism
Communities in Metro Detroit embrace New Urbanism to revive downtown areas.
Selling Smart Growth: Showdown In Seattle
Builders and architects are not doing a good job of selling smart growth strategies.
New Urbanism: A Fashionable Housing Trend?
The Sun-Sentinel seems amazed that people would want to live in downtown and calls new urbanism a fashionable new housing trend.
New Urbanism Is Often Old Hat
Architecture critic Larry Millett discusses a huge new housing development in St. Paul, MN.
Cold Cities, Hot Architecture
Architect Aaron Betsky explains why "Architecture Must Burn."
ULI Residential Housing Case Study
ULI publishes a complete case study of Normandie Village, an award-winning residential apartment complex in East Hollywood, California.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
