Housing
Upscale Suburban City Looks At Options For Creating Affordable Housing
Planning commissioners from Santa Clarita, California, have recent visited several Southern California cities with affordable housing ordinances in hopes of gaining insight for a possible inclusionary housing ordinance.
Gentrification: The New York Experience
A new book from Columbia University Professor Lance Freeman documents the changes of two African-American communities in New York City.
Maryland Housing Market Shows Signs Of Cooling
Following closely behind Northern Virginia and Washington DC, condo conversions in Baltimore are now halted.
India's Hot Housing Market
A recent story about the nation's largest and most successful developer highlights the acceleration of India's urban development.
New Urbanism Hits The Mainstream In Britain
Backed by government support, Britain's land use laws are bringing new urbanism to the mainstream.
Toronto Project LEEDs City And Developer To Green
A new green project near Toronto is fostering a LEED-ing of the city. The 243-acre development will be Canada's largest LEED-certified project yet, and though the developer hadn't planned on going green, it turned out to be more profitable.
Growth Is Squeezing Out Rural Life In Arizona
Arizona's rural landscapes are being taken over and obstructed by huge housing booms and development projects. Residents are supporting a ballot initiative to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres of land, while legislators side with developers.
Central Florida Going From Suburban To Urban
High land prices in the Orlando area have helped encourage higher density development. Urban planners applaud the new trend, but some residents worry about the change in the region's character.
Moscow Goes British
A new housing development in Moscow takes its inspiration from the Russian elite's affection for all things British. The largest housing development since the fall of Communism will recreate an English village with a view of the Kremlin.
Battle Over Gentrification Rages In Los Angeles
A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times outlines the issues around "gentrification" using the city's recent wave of downtown redevelopment as a case study.
Urban Housing Expert Louis Winnick Dies
An immigrant from Romania growing up in Brooklyn, Winnick spent his life helping to improve low-income urban neighborhoods.
Developers Responding To High Demand For Rentals
With the condo craze mostly played out, developers in New Jersey are starting to build new for-rent apartments to meet the increasing market demand.
Austin, Texas Forming Affordable Housing Task Force
With its economy humming and housing prices rising, the city of Austin has joined other U.S. cities in looking for affordable housing solutions.
Cooling Housing Market Is Slowing Overall Economy
After riding high due to a booming housing market over the past several years, the U.S. economy is feeling the pain of a housing slowdown.
Housing Out Of Reach For UK Public Sector Workers
With prices doubling in the past five years across Britian, a key sector of the workforce is frozen out of the housing market in two-thirds of cities and towns.
Redesigning Cities For Change
How do we redesign cities to meet the needs of a changing world? Anupam Saraph poses questions for Mumbai's planners.
L.A.'s Housing Authority Tackles Public Housing's Bad Image
HUD's Los Angeles Housing Authority is replacing its older, "oppressive", public housing stock with friendlier, mixed-income complexes to ease the city's housing crisis.
Minnesota Suburb Divided Over New Urban Plan
A suburban town just west of Minneapolis is debating a plan to bring a bit of New Urbanism into a proposed housing development that would otherwise just be houses. The planned mixed use development has enticed some residents and worried others.
Many Bay Area Cities Flunk Housing Report Card
A business group publishes its annual "report card" or housing profile for Bay Area communities by comparing local housing permits issued to state-mandated housing goals.
Front Porches Regaining Popularity
The number of new homes with porches increased has nationwide over the past 10 years.
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
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
