Housing
Downtown: A Great Place To Work, Not To Live
According to Joel Kotkin, don't make plans to trade your suburban house for a downtown loft just yet.
Housing-related Employment: An Impending Disaster
An editorial explains why housing related employment is a disaster waiting to happen.
Selling Your Neighborhood. A New Trend?
Residents in neighborhoods across the US are offering properties collectively for much more than they are worth individually.
Why Is New York America's Largest City?
New York has been remarkably successful relative to any other large city outside of the sunbelt and it remains the nation's premier metropolis. What accounts for New York’s rise and continuing success?
Tulsa Offers $9.3 Million For Downtown Housing
Funds from a half billion dollar capital improvements sales-tax initiative are earmarked for downtown residential development.
City Blends Something Old, Something New
Housing projects in Madison, WI, are blending older buildings with new construction.
Calcutta's Real-Estate Boom
Calcutta is being transformed by a burgeoning real-estate market and a construction explosion.
President Bush Signs Energy Bill
President Bush acknowledged that the major overhaul of the nation's energy policy may not bring down high gasoline prices immediately.
Land Of The Mega Garage
Many homeowners in the midwest are "supersizing" their garages.
Gentrification In North Philadelphia
Amid the city's development boom, residents and local groups in one neighborhood wrangle with developers, the city and each other.
Housing Prices Outstripping Salaries
A new study shows that a great many working class Americans are unable to purchase their own homes.
Downtown Oklahoma City's Untapped Housing Market
A new study shows that downtown Oklahoma City's 90's investments are beginning to pay off with an expected demand of at least 7,000 units within the next 10 years.
L.A.'s Mall Makeover: Introducing Mixed Use
An ailing retail center in a high-density area of Los Angeles proposes to introduce a mixed use mall to include senior housing.
New Housing Land Trust In Florida Could Dwarf Others
Officials in Sarasota County support the incorporation of what will likely be the state's fourth -- and largest -- local housing land trust.
San Francisco Mayor Promises Ambitious Housing Goals
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed a dramatic expansion in the number of housing units by 2010 to alleviate housing affordability problems.
Affordable Homes Drawing People To Working-Class Towns
As the real estate boom in Los Angeles continues, many are looking at out of the way towns to settle down.
The Gentrification of Rural America
Rural New England is being caught up in the real estate boom, and former residents are being priced out of the market.
A New American Classic Town Gone Bad
Officials have are investigating violations by the developer of what was supposed to be "traditional architectural styling" in Clarksburg Town Center.
The McMansioning of Seattle's Central District
The central district has seen its share of change in architecture, but 'mcmansioning' is a turn for the worse.
Idaho's Housing Values Expected To Rise
Idaho's housing boom is expected to survive the end of the so-called housing bubble.
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
