Environment
A Tale Of Two River Cities
St. Louis and Portland are renewing their connections with the rivers that make the cities important.
Spectacular Region Resists Airport Expansion
A ski town in an environmentally spectacular region debates the impact of an airport expansion.
Promoting Development, But At What Cost?
The EPA will relax the ban on the sale of land polluted with PCBs.
Mapping Miniature, Unspoiled Plots Of Land
Before the bulldozers arrive, states are rushing to preserve small ecology outposts and create a public-private database.
Rampant Development Threatens Wetlands in the South
Environmentalists battle developers to save the coast of Georgia.
How Cities Can Save On Water Costs
The World Bank and the World Wide Fund for Nature release a study of the water quality in 105 big cities.
Nuclear Power Revival And NIMBYism
Nuclear power is making a comeback but proposed plans for creating respositories for radioactive waste face opposition from citizens.
Opposition Causes Developers To Abandon Plan For New City
A conservation group seeks to buy the land on the border of Joshua Tree National Parkt to ensure that it will never be developed.
Bush Trashes The EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency is working overtime to scuttle the Clean Air Act -- in effect, trashing the environment.
EPA Won't Regulate Greenhouse Gases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it does not have the legal authority to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Designing Transportation For People, Not Cars
Bogotá has become a success story that cities around the world are aiming to copy.
Whither The Clean Air Act?
A ruling this week lets plants remodel with no new emissions limits.
Weekend Ozone Effect
Many cities have higher ozone levels on weekends even though nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions go down 10 to 40 percent on weekends.
Nation's Healthiest Cities
How healthy is your city? A survey ranks 10 zones and 125 cities.
Bush On Fire And Under Fire
In efforts to win over swing voters in the Pacific Northwest, Bush tours forest fires and responds vaguely to environmental activists.
Cities With The Worst Air Pollution In The U.S.
New report ranks top metro areas with the worst air pollution, and concludes that half of all Americans are breathing unhealthy air.
Cleaner Skies, But How?
The EPA is about to issue a controversial rule for the nation's dirtiest power plants, forcing a new nose-wrinkling debate.
Bush's Environmental Smokescreen
This editorial is sceptical of the Bush administration's "Healthy Forests" initiative and says the changes to the Clean Air Act are of "dubious value."
Bush Administration Plans To Choke Clean Air Act
The Bush administration plans to open a huge loophole in the Clean Air Act.
Could Cattails Impact The Presidency?
Farm runoff into the Everglades has fostered the growth non-native cattails, which destroy native wildlife.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
New York City School Construction Authority
Village of Glen Ellyn
Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
