Housing
The Shape Of The Curve
Not all cities lost middle-class households in past 20 years.
Return Of The Downtown
In a trend that is defying post-9/11 predictions American downtowns continue to grow.
Beyond Legislating Integration
How to get race and class residential integration in the United States.
Preservation Versus Property Rights
Tel Aviv planning commission grapples with issues of preservation, economic development, and private property rights.
Ethnic Change Energizes Redevelopment In L.A. Suburb
San Gabriel's emergence as an Asian shopping and cultural hub has created opportunity for denser development and other urban improvements.
Are Mobile Homes The Future Of Affordable Housing?
Amidst stigma and displacement, mobile homes offer new hope for affordable housing emerges.
Mansionization: Inevitable Or Avoidable?
Developers say gentrification is part of a neighborhood's evolution. Planners are concerned about the trends impact on an areas aesthetic, social and historical context.
Top 10 Issues For Real Estate Capital Markets
A new report by Deloitte's development practice highlights key issues facing the real estate industry.
Smart-growth Controversy in Albuquerque
Albuquerque Tribune columnist Jeffry Gardner rants about Smart-growth efforts in Albuquerque, calling them misguided -- especially in the context of housing affordability.
Small Towns With Creative Strategies
By adopting creative strategies, small towns revitalize spaces left behind by empty big boxes.
UCLA's Smart Growth Conference Revolution Or Hot Air?
Dan Rosenfeld pins down the ubiquitous yet evasive term, smart growth and argues that UCLA Extension's Smart Growth Conference has advanced the smart growth cause among the development community..
Wanted: Land To Develop
Strategies for dealing with urban sprawl and the lack of quality land to develop is presented by an industry practitioner.
Top 250 Design-Builders
Engineering News Record publishes its annual list of the top 250 U.S.-based design builders, whose total 2003 revenue exceeded $53 billion.
Not Another Megaproject Or Sports Arena
Jane Jacobs Reading Group proposes mixed-use redevelopment for former Southern Pacific rail yards.
Planning For Baby Boomers
Urban planning dominates the opening session of the National Governors' Association (NGA) annual meeting.
The City That Works, Today
Chicago is using innovative ideas to encourage urban, sustainable development.
Research & Development Clusters Are A Catalyst For Growth
From California to Colorado to Florida, new research & development and science clusters can give regional economies a shot in the arm.
Long Island: The End Of Suburbia?
A new study from Rutgers University shows Long Island's suburbs sagging as New York City's numbers grow. One expert says, "This relentless suburbanization has reached its low tide."
Multifamily Low Income Occupancy Compliance
The law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop provides guidance relating to low income occupancy compliance for multifamily developments.
A Community Amid Slums: Living In 100 Square Feet
The L.A. Times presents the fourth report in a series on Africa's swelling slums. This article focuses on a community known as 'Deep Sea'.
Pagination
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