Housing

Student 'Takeover' Prompts Large Scale Planning Proposal

Exclusion zone for student housing proposed in attempt to bring life back to areas where full-time residents are a minority.

October 2, 2004 - The Guardian Unlimited

Regional Cooperation Key To Addressing Planning Challenges

Urban planners say uncoordinated planning exacts a price.

October 1, 2004 - The Chicago Tribune

Smart Growth Keeps The Tribe Together

As incomes rise and public housing needs fall, the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska is planning a pedestrian-friendly village to keep members of the community on the reservation.

October 1, 2004 - The New York Times

Supreme Court To Hear Case For Expanding Eminent Domain

A new case could have far reaching implications for redevelopment activities.

September 30, 2004 - The New York Times

When Is A Port Too Big?

Los Angeles - Long Beach port is the world's third largest, an economic powerhouse, and bursting with growth. But is it big enough?

September 29, 2004 - The Los Angeles Times

Iraq's 'Green Zone' Profiled

Baghdad's "International Zone," often known as the Green Zone, is a city unlike any other.

September 27, 2004 - Wall St. Journal

Practice What You Teach?

Buying a home in a New Urbanist neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon becomes a practical lesson on the line separating academic discussions on New Urbanism and personal lifestyle choices for Professor Sriram Khé.

September 27, 2004 - Sriram Khé

56% Of US Colleges And Universities Plan Student Housing Construction

Public-private partnerships surge ahead as states cut back budgets.

September 25, 2004 - Consulting-Specifying Engineer

Smart Growth Is Quality Growth

Steve Cash promotes high density development.

September 24, 2004 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mobile-home Decay

Problem of abandoned or storm-wrecked single-wides pushes states toward controversial 'predisposal' fee on new units.

September 24, 2004 - The Christian Science Monitor

Kemp, Cisneros Promote National Housing Agenda

Former HUD secretaries promote nipartisan agenda to address nation's housing problem.

September 23, 2004 - The Washington Post

Unsprawl Case Study: Lenox Village, Nashville

The current issue of Terrain profiles Lenox Village, Nashville's first full-scale traditional neighborhood development.

September 22, 2004 - Terrain

A Tale Of YIMBYism

Northern Virginia suburbanites to tear down, redevelop their own near-transit neighborhood at higher densities.

September 21, 2004 - The Washington Post

'Vultures' Prowl Hurricane-Ravaged Real Estate Market

A look at the post-hurricane real estate market.

September 21, 2004 - The New York Times

The New Developer

Land scarcity promotes development of "urban villages".

September 20, 2004 - The Miami Herald

Los Angeles at the Forefront of Transit-Oriented Development

As the Rail-Volution conference kicks off in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County is touted as "being at the forefront of a growing trend to building housing close to rail transit."

September 20, 2004 - Pasadena Star-News

Building A City Inside A Suburban Office Park

Suburban office park owners are beginning to model the office park campus on mixed use urban neighborhoods.

September 19, 2004 - USA Today

One Of West Coast

One of the West Coast’s largest walkable environments is about to launch in Oxnard, California, in southern Ventura County.

September 18, 2004 - The Los Angeles Times

Old Malls Vs. New Malls

A clash in Glendale, CA between a traditional mall and new 'lifestyle center' may be only the beginning.

September 17, 2004 - The Los Angeles Times

Housing Prices Rise, Sales Cooling In So. California

The region posts a 20.4% year-over-year increase in prices in August, but only Riverside and San Bernardino show gains in the number sold.

September 17, 2004 - The Los Angeles Times

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.

Professor of Urban Planning

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Transportation Planner I

KFH Group Inc.

Director, Strategy and Research

Greater Baltimore Committee

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