Housing
America's Affordable Housing Crisis
A recent article in the Washington Post calls for drastic action from local communities and politicians in Washington to address the growing lack of affordable housing.
Developers Offer Incentives To Lure Buyers
Some of the recent incentives to woo homebuyers in a slowing housing market sound more like automobile ads.
Farmers Use Easements To Protect Land
Housing developments are threatening centuries-old agricultural land in Western North Carolina, but farmers are fighting off developers with the help of conservation easements.
Katrina 'Reshuffled' The Fortunes of Gulf Coast Cities
While New Orleans' economy struggles to return to its pre-storm levels, cities such as Mobile, Alabama are reaping the benefits of renewed economic vigor.
Affordable Housing: Managing The Message
The right choice of words, stories and images can have a remarkable effect on how the public views affordable housing.
U.S. Housing Market Tumbles Further
A two and a half year low in sales of existing homes and buyers' holding out for better deals are just a few signs of the accelerating tumble in housing markets.
Los Angeles Wrestles With Accelerating Gentrification
As Los Angeles' old neighborhoods are scrubbed clean and the city begins to embrace density, gentrification is threatening the way of life for residents in many communities.
U.S. Housing Market Slowing
The housing boom that fueled the U.S. ecomony in recent years appears to be slowing down.
An Innovative Solution For A Skinny Lot
The Aspen Lofts, a new condominium project planned for downtown Boise, is making use of what others would call wasted space.
Exotic Mortgages Proving Financially Fatal
Dramatic increases in foreclosures in California, Colorado, Las Vegas and Phoenix are being attributed to an "overwhelming use of creative mortgage products."
Reusing Regional Amusement Parks
Old amusement parks don't die, they just ... become housing.
Doctor Blames Health Problems On Developers
Where people live has been shown to relate directly to how much they exercise, as well as to excessive child obesity and the increasing incidence of diabetes. Real estate developers are being held to blame for creating auto-reliant, unhealthy towns.
Intown Atlanta's Population Explosion
Though the central city's numerous building cranes and new developments fueled population-gain assumptions, new government and regional estimates seem to confirm that intown Atlanta is experiencing a continuing renaissance.
Immigration Has Growing Impact On New York's Suburbs
Immigration and gentrification is changing the composition of New York and its suburbs in a trend that reverses long-standing patterns of white flight from the city replaced by immigrant infill.
Drawing Lessons From Major Disasters
A new report contains lessons for planners and other public officials who are concerned about recent public disasters.
The Garvin Report: A Secret Plan For New York City?
A blog releases a document it claims is a secret "new urban planning vision for New York City" developed by the consulting firm of Alex Garvin and Associates.
A Prescription For An Ailing Urban Habitat
The ills that affect our cities can be cured with more sustainable urban planning, says one Australian public health practitioner.
The Beginning Of The End For Suburbia?
With high gas prices here to stay, many experts believe suburbia as we know it will be replaced by more dense and urban settlement patterns.
San Francisco Seeing A Shift To The Suburbs
A new census survey offers a startling look at the de-population of older cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially among African Americans, as the flight to the more affordable, outer East Bay communities continues.
The Surreal Tale Of Katrina's Planning Mishaps
Fortune magazine provides one of the most thorough accounts of the political shuffling that occurred in Hurricane Katrina's wake.
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
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
