Housing
Current Trends In Downtown Revitalization
A review of several downtown revitalization strategies.
Building A Student Village For 6,000
Need a pizza or cell phone? This new student development will have it all -- including a gondola ride to campus.
Edgeless Cities
A new book probes America's newest metropolitan form by examining the growth and spatial structure of office development in 13 large U.S. markets.
Ten Most Enlightened Suburbs
The Utne Reader offers their list of the ten most 'enlightened' suburbs across the U.S.
World's Most Expensive Office Space
London, Tokyo and Paris beat out New York as the priciest places to lease office space.
U.S. Housing Boom Slowing
The Economist's house-price indices suggest that the U.S. housing boom may be slowing down even as housing markets in some other nations are growing.
Hot Real Estate Markets Are Driving Sprawl
Irrational housing prices are forcing middle class residents out of the city.
Dozens Of Miami Schools Accepted With Flaws
Dozens of schools were accepted with flaws, risks; The school district paid millions to the contractors and architects who turned in shoddy work.
Tearing Down Community Opposition To Teardowns
Builder donates profits on teardown project to homeless charity.
A New Era For Affordable Housing
Competition for tax credits and incentives are turning yesterday's gray, boxy apartment into eye-catching mixed-use facilities.
Cendant Corp. Is Running Scared
The nation's largest real estate franchise, is calling for the National Association of Realtors policing real estate listings on the Internet.
College Towns Act To Discourage Student Slums
Local governments try to make college student be better neighbors in residential neighborhoods.
Don't Abandon HOPE
New Urbanists make a plea for saving HOPE -- a program for converting failed public housing projects to mixed-income developments.
Can Houston Be Retrofit?
Houston has never made small plans. Now the city is developing an ambitious plan to retrofit a city that has been shaped by sprawl.
A New Beat: Ethnic Retailing
Is ethnic retailing a phenomenon that lasts for only one generation?
Cordish Comes To Rochester's High Falls
A developer with a national reputation for revitalizing urban districts in Baltimore, Houston, Charleston, S.C., and Detroit wants to come to Rochester.
Downtown Living: A Green Choice?
Living in a downtown condominium is an environmentally-friendly choice.
How Wal-Mart Is Changing America
What's a good sprawl story without Wal-Mart? Fortune magazine profiles the corporation that builds the big boxes in "One Nation Under Wal-Mart."
Denver Faces Affordable-housing Crisis
Denver is facing a housing crisis but no one is paying attention.
Transit Villages Along L.A.'s New Gold Line
Several mixed-use real estate developments are being developed along Los Angeles-area passenger train routes -- encouraged by publicly funded programs.
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
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
