Housing
SAT Scores And Home Value: An Internet Match
More school district scores are available on line, and families with means are using it to decide where to live.
Las Vegas Glitz Dulled By Growing Pains
As the city opens the world's most expensive casino, residents worry about lack of housing, bad traffic, smog, and crime.
Canadian Housing Bubble Risk Exaggerated, Report Says
While there are legitimate concerns about housing markets in the US, Britain and Australia, Canada's housing market is on a "solid foundation."
Uptown Charlotte Experiences Building Boom
Plans for a mixed-use project have expanded.
Art Group Wants More Non-Gated Communities
'Something there is that does not love a wall/That wants it down...'
Canadian Real Estate is the New RRSP
A new report shows that surging housing prices in many Canadian cities are enticing investors away from other investments like the stock market and RRSPs.
Charlotte's Beltway Baronials A Drain on Environment?
Communities in Charlotte express concern over the long-term environmental implications of 'McMansions'.
Donald in L.A. To 'Trump' Real Estate Market
A booming real estate market has helped hype Donald Trump's seminar. But how realistic is it?
One Mega Project Or Seven TNDs
Developers of what would be the largest planned development in LA County decide to split the project into seven TND-style communities.
New Urbanism Attracting Old Conservativism
Smart growth is a rising star for more Republicans as well as Democrats. Finally, something both sides of the house can begin to agree on.
Judgement Halts Bombay Mills Demolitions
Bombay Environmental Action Group succeeds in court action seeking withdrawal of modifications to planning regulations that favored mill owners.
Urbanizing The Alpha Edge City
Quintessential edge city Tysons Corner doesn’t want to be one anymore.
Indonesia Rejects UN Aid To Set Up Own Resconstruction Agency
Indonesia rejects UN aid for Aceh, instead creating the Agency for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Aceh.
Ten Priciest Neighborhoods In The World
The average cost of a home in the world's most expensive neighborhoods ranges from a measly $1.2 million to a staggering $85 million.
Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?
An academic article in the Harvard Institute of Economic Research suggests that regulatory obstacles are the primary reason housing prices have risen so much since the 1970s.
The 'Housing Bomb' Under the Bush Administration
America's home-equity-as-ATM-machine scheme is about to explode, says Mike Davis.
A Confrontation Over Affordable Housing
Thousands of desperate applicants show up to claim 56 affordable housing units in Los Angeles.
Unanchored Centers: A New Trend
Retail centers with no traditional anchor are being built successfully in Arizona, California and Florida.
Don't Demonize New Urbanism
New Urbanists don't demand to eliminate suburbia -- only to be able to build walkable and mixed-use communities.
Joel Kotkin On 5 Millennia Of Cities
Excerpt from a new book by a leading thinker about cities.
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.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
