Housing
A New Era For Affordable Housing
Competition for tax credits and incentives are turning yesterday's gray, boxy apartment into eye-catching mixed-use facilities.
Cendant Corp. Is Running Scared
The nation's largest real estate franchise, is calling for the National Association of Realtors policing real estate listings on the Internet.
College Towns Act To Discourage Student Slums
Local governments try to make college student be better neighbors in residential neighborhoods.
Don't Abandon HOPE
New Urbanists make a plea for saving HOPE -- a program for converting failed public housing projects to mixed-income developments.
Can Houston Be Retrofit?
Houston has never made small plans. Now the city is developing an ambitious plan to retrofit a city that has been shaped by sprawl.
A New Beat: Ethnic Retailing
Is ethnic retailing a phenomenon that lasts for only one generation?
Cordish Comes To Rochester's High Falls
A developer with a national reputation for revitalizing urban districts in Baltimore, Houston, Charleston, S.C., and Detroit wants to come to Rochester.
Downtown Living: A Green Choice?
Living in a downtown condominium is an environmentally-friendly choice.
How Wal-Mart Is Changing America
What's a good sprawl story without Wal-Mart? Fortune magazine profiles the corporation that builds the big boxes in "One Nation Under Wal-Mart."
Denver Faces Affordable-housing Crisis
Denver is facing a housing crisis but no one is paying attention.
Transit Villages Along L.A.'s New Gold Line
Several mixed-use real estate developments are being developed along Los Angeles-area passenger train routes -- encouraged by publicly funded programs.
Will War Burst Housing Bubble?
A war with Iraq could bring down housing prices.
Mall Takeover Tug-of-War Continues
The country's largest shopping center operator has lined up another ally to control public shareholders of the Bloomfield Hills mall developer.
Affordable Housing Or Economic Development?
What type of affordable housing -- if any -- should be built in a part of the city known for its housing shortage?
Advantages Of Being The Fastest-growing County
Maricopa County's tremendous growth has translated into up to $200 million in unexpected property tax funds.
California Housing Law Ineffective
California's law designed largely to address California's undersupply of housing is doing little to boost the number of new homes being built,
How To Win Land Development Issues
A new book claims to be a 'citizen's guide for handling community problems arising from sprawl' and other development activities.
Good Urbanism: RiverPark Master Plan
Oxnard, CA: 700 acres of abandoned gravel-mining pits and a failed commercial project to be transformed into a model economically viable, livable community.
Predicting The Top Regional Issues Of 2003
The Citistates Group predicts the dominating regional issues for 2003.
Small Farms On The Prarie Bow To A Wal-Mart Era
As megafarms take over, rural towns fight for survival.
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 Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KFH Group Inc.
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
