Government / Politics
Schwarzenegger's Cal/EPA Candidate
California Governor Schwarzenegger is expected to name a conservationist to lead the state's environmental agency.
Presidential Candidate on Importance of Urban Planning
Presidential candidate Dennis J. Kucinich discusses the importance of planning in addressing urban sprawl.
Growing Pains
Real estate agents, farmers and others react negatively to plans in Calvert County, MD to toughen zoning regulations to control growth.
'The Urban Justifying Encroachments Theory'
An Indian politician supports the special interest group with the biggest influence on Mumbai street life -- hawkers.
New Growth Policy, A Mixed Bag
To deal with growth, Montgomery County, MD will lift a building moratorium in its most congested areas, but impose the state's highest taxes on development.
Lights Out For Public Safety?
What legal responsibility do cities have to provide adequate public services, such as traffic signals and street lights?
How Cities Can Weather State Fiscal Distress
West Sacramento has learned to cope, and flourish, in spite of California's fiscal chaos.
Zoning Windmills
Plans to construct 15 large windmills atop a mountain runs into zoning conflicts in Tennessee.
NPR Reports On A Community's Fight Against Eminent Domain
Residents of Lakewood, Ohio fight the use of eminent domain for economic development.
Getting California Back On Track
Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) offers his prescription for restoring the fiscal and political health of the state.
Atlanta Looks To Portland For Ideas
Transportation officials from Georgia take a journey to Portland, OR to find inspiration for anti-sprawl strategies for the greater Atlanta region.
The War On Sprawl
It is time to face sprawl politics and the sprawl lobby, writes Joel Hirschhorn.
Inclusionary Zoning: To Be or Not Be?
Housing developers, advocates, policymakers and the media debate on the consequences of inclusionary zoning in San Diego County.
Private Ownership Reconsidered in China
Private ownership of land, which was banned in China for the past 54 years, may be included in the country's revisions of its current constitution.
Making 40B More Friendly
State officials are making changes to 40B, the Massachusetts' anti-snob zoning law, in efforts to boost housing supply.
Commissioners To Increase Coastal Development Oversight
Developers soon will have a much more difficult time trying to pack future high-rises along beaches in Broward County, FL, and the Intracoastal Waterway.
Is It Time To Scrap Virginia's Dillon Rule?
Should Virginia's time-honored Dillon Rule, which reserves most powers tp the state unless explicitly eelegated to county and city governments, be scrapped?
'Dumb Growth' and the Overreliance on Property Taxes
A Hartford Courant Op-Ed that calls for smarter, more sensitive growth policies for Connecticut.
Michigan Wants To Be Cool, Too
The state’s new governor responds to recent Census data naming Detroit as first in the nation in the flight of young adults between 2000 and 2002.
Revisiting The Socialist City
Tom Angotti offers a progressive planner's perspective on urban planning, and explores lessons we can learn from the good, the bad, the ugly, as well as the theoretical and the achievable, aspects of the Socialist City.
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 Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
