Tim Halbur

A new survey of buyer preferences says that most would be more practical and make sacrifices like giving up the upstairs laundry room.

So says Ken Greenberg, a noted urban designer who resigned from the project after the city began moving forward with a conventional stadium plan rather than an urban facility with a mix of uses.

Aaron Renn, The Urbanophile, argues that the stats actually show that cities are losing people in their urban cores, not gaining them.

Westchester County, NY has a mandate to spread its affordable housing into wealthier neighborhoods instead of just clumping it in poorer ones. But making it happen is a challenge.

As cities like Long Beach and Santa Monica get more focused on urban design, their general plans become more and more proscriptive.