Housing
Horizon West: A Model Community Or Suburban Sprawl?
Horizon West's innovation design is supposed to weave in the benefits of traditional downtown neighborhoods but critics say it is just sprawl under a different label.
WWII Era Housing To Be Replaced By Mixed-Use Village
Baltimore-area housing project to be redeveloped as mixed-use village as part of revitalization effort.
A Real Debate On Growth In Arizona
Buckeye's recent vote to allow the largest subdivision in Arizona's history does nothing to settle questions about sprawl.
A Mall Disguised As A City?
Walnut Creek, California isn't far from San Francisco, but it's a world apart.
Has The Big Dig Killed Megaprojects?
After two decades of mishaps, the $14.6 billion tombstone for Boston's Big Dig seems to be: "Don't try this at home."
Real Estate Agents Feel Threatened By Online Property Listings
Opponents of a National Association of Realtors' policy allowing realtors to keep listings off the Web say the policy restricts buyer choice.
Middle Eastern Investors Buy U.S. Properties Despite Tension
Middle Eastern investors are pouring more money into U.S. commercial real estate, even as anti-American sentiment runs high.
Ballot Approves Sprawling Development
Residents of Buckeye vote in favor of Arizona's largest master-planned community development.
Fields Of Prayer: Religious Groups Contribute To Sprawl
Religious groups are building places of worship in rural land first and then developing subdivisions around them.
'Student Ghetto' Transforming 'Old Urbanism'
Community life suffers as student population grows.
Architecture For The People
New York City Housing Authority's architect David J. Burney works to prove that public housing need not be "banal" or poorly designed.
Billion-Dollar Urban Village Planned
Ramsey, a city known as a stoplight amid RV dealerships, will break ground on a billion-dollar plan to turn vacant farmland into a transit-oriented urban village.
This Is Student Housing?
College dorms are being replaced by plush residences as collegees use private developers to build new units.
Nation's New Brooklyns: Large, Fast-Growing, And Diverse
A wave of immigration is reshaping traditional white suburbs into fast-growing "New Brooklyns."
Affordable Housing At The Cross Hairs
Exclusionary zoning and its effect on housing affordability
Suburbs Face Sticker Shock Of Sprawl
Maryland suburbs begin to cope with the same issues as traditional downtowns: Who will pay for growth? What happened to Glendening's smart growth?
A House Bigger Than Monster Homes
A billionaire plans to build a 103,667-square-foot house in Washington which is the home to four of the top five big-house communities in the country.
Plans For Idaho's Largest Development Abandoned
Developers abandoned their plans to build what would have been Idaho's largest residential development saying the project´s progress has been bled dry by too many government regulations.
Radical Individualism, Cities, And Transportation
The anti-urban movement is in "denial."
Voracious Growth Threatens Future Congestion
Various transit related proposals are evaluated for the Phoenix Valley area to combat burgeoning growth.
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
