Housing
Developing Workforce Housing In Los Angeles
Livable Places has developed a brief paper that de-mystifies the current dynamics of the housing market in Los Angeles.
The Dangerous Developer
The Los Angeles Times profiles the controversial and litigious real estate developer Alan Casden.
Baby Boomers Eye Retirement Communities
About a quarter of baby boomers now between 40 and 45 are thinking about buying a home in a senior community.
Anatomy Of A Dallas Development
A blighted area of downtown Dallas is being transformed -- inch by dogged inch -- into an upscale urban neighborhood by Dallas-based Hillwood Development.
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.
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
