Housing
Schwarzenegger to Encourage Smart Growth Policies
Planners, developers and environmentalists weigh Arnold Schwarzenegger's approach to growth policies in California.
Portland's Pearl District Continues As Success Story
Pearl District apartments fetch the Portland region's highest rents, condos are selling for more than $1 million and people just can't get enough.
The Dynamics of Building Moratoriums
Do building moratoriums work? Developers and others in one of the fastest growing communities in Connecticut say no.
Ireland: Watch Your Language
A county council imposes a language requirement for occupants of new homes.
Whose 'American Dream' Is It?
Wendell Cox and the 'Preserving the American Dream' conference arrive in Cincinnati.
Melbourne: Debating the Next Steps to Controlling Sprawl
Melbourne concurs for the need to control growth, but not exactly how and where.
What a Difference a Granny Makes
In efforts to increase the availability of affordable housing, a new California state law will make the construction of granny units easier.
City-Making In Downtown Los Angeles
Will Frank Gehry's masterwork, Walt Disney Concert Hall, serve as a catalyst for large-scale city-making in downtown Los Angeles?
Large Homes On Big Lots--At What Price?
A report by the largest conservation organization in New England ties 'mansionization' to the loss of open spaces in Massachusetts.
Bay Area Smart Growth Fund In Action
A business group in the Bay Area invests in a private firm 'to bring private dollars into poor neighborhoods and promote infill, local business revitalization and contaminated site cleanup.'
El Toro Airbase May Become a New Community
Southern California's former El Toro military airbase may be cleared, but not for airplanes.
Chattanooga's Swift Waterfront Revitalization
Chattanooga's 120 million dollar upgrade to its waterfront is progressing rapidly
Gown Helps Town
Harvard University is one of many educational institutions that Boston city officials have asked to create housing for students and employees.
Debate On Downtown Affordable Housing
A Hartford Courant editorial gives reasons for why a current city proposal to implement an 'affordable rental standard' is bad for Hartford.
Losing Hope in HOPE VI?
As the fate of the HOPE VI program is debated in Congress, HUD puts the pressure on some local housing authorities to move their projects forward--or face severe penalties.
Undercover In The Suburbs
A cynical writer goes undercover in the new urbanist suburb of Evergreen Village in San Jose, California.
Small Town 'Resists Sprawl'
Pingree Grove, IL, a small town of 125, is doing what it can to keep from being engulfed by what seems to some as 'inevitable.'
Tax Policy As Housing Policy
The Earned Income Tax Credit could improve housing affordability more effectively than federal housing programs.
Encouraging Transit Villages
Livable Places has developed a fact sheet with incentives cities and counties can provide to assist transit-oriented development.
Connecticut: Health, Smart Growth and Sprawl
A Hartford Courant Op-Ed discusses strategies for creating healthy communities.
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
