Exclusives

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The events of September 11th have served as a vehicle to attack skyscrapers, urbanism and development in general. Yet, does 9/11 really change anything about planning?

February 11 - Christian Schock, AICP

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The editors of PLANetizen select the top 10 planning issues from 2001 according to readers.

January 30 - Chris Steins and Abhijeet Chavan

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Well intentioned but off-target planning regulations are neglecting to create the community-centered schools the public is demanding.

January 16 - Constance E. Beaumont

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The Twentieth Century ushered in a historic era of optimism for the rational "modern" future. History may record that September 11 ended the modernist dream for cities. But already new visions are emerging for a wiser, more hopeful future.

January 9 - Michael W. Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros

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Richard Carson argues there's nothing new or innovative about "New Urbanism" or "Smart Growth." They're just new names for old strategies.

January 2 - Richard H. Carson

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Planning Support Tools have the potential to revolutionize the way we do planning. Yet many planners have been slow to adopt them. Why aren't these cutting-edge planning tools in the mainstream planner's toolbox?

December 26 - Eliot Allen, AICP

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The implementation of growth management laws may have severe impacts on housing availability. William Fulton examines the impact of smart growth policies in Ventura County, California, which has been hailed as a leader in urban planning.

December 18 - William Fulton

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Scattered development does not offer more security. Decentralizing the population and businesses of our great cities would be a long and expensive proposition, and one likely to fail.

November 26 - Sam Casella, FAICP

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What's so bad about Zoning? Planner and attorney Edward McMahon separates the myths from the facts. At its best, zoning can help strike the elusive balance between quality of life and economic vitality.

November 14 - Edward McMahon

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November 5 - Nikos Salingaros: Interview with Leon Krier

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Being a planning director means you have to be a political animal. Richard Carson offers a no-holds barred look at what it takes to be a planning director -- and whether you want to.

October 29 - Richard H. Carson

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The sprawling 1950's postwar urban pattern, once believed to provide a measure of security in the atomic age, has made us extremely vulnerable in an age of international terrorism.

October 23 - Michael Dudley

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October 2 - Edward J. Blakely

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Members of an Internet-based discussion group promoting New Urbanism offer several new urbanist proposals for redeveloping the site of the World Trade Center.

September 24 - Laurence Aurbach Jr. (Editor)

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We are convinced that the age of skyscrapers is at an end. It must now be considered an experimental building typology that has failed. We predict that no new megatowers will be built, and existing ones are destined to be dismantled.

September 17 - James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros

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The World Trade Center towers were an icon of the most powerful city in the world. Was it a mistake to build these grand towers? No. Architecture captures the strength and power of the American idea.

September 13 - John H. Hooker, AIA

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As long as homeownership is a fundamental part of the American dream, we won't have livable cities. America's housing policy is dysfunctional -- homeownership is increasing, but community is disappearing.

September 1 - Daniel Lazare

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August 6 - Richard H. Carson

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Housing affordably drops in Portland, but increases in Atlanta. Are urban growth boundries are causing minorites to be locked out of the American dream?

July 22 - Wendell Cox

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, cities in the East are sprawling faster than their West coast counterparts.

July 12 - William Fulton, Rolf Pendall, Mai Nguyen, and Alicia Harrison