Housing
'Condo-mania' In B.C.
Developers cannot keep up with the demand for condos in B.C., Canada.
Lifestyle Centers: 'Mall-Town America'
The shopping center industry has discovered a hybrid of housing and retail development.
Market Demand Is Primary Determinant Of Housing Price
The Brookings Institution presents a comprehensive review of academic literature on the link between growth management and housing affordability.
Atlanta's 'Sizzling' Urban Market
The real estate market in downtown and Midtown Atlanta is booming despite the slow economy.
Upscale Homeowners Oppose Plan For Low-Income Housing
Owners of fancy new dream homes in Cleveland's poverty-stricken Hough neighborhood attempt to keep low-income housing out.
Advocates Demand Affordable Housing In San Diego
Housing advocates in San Diego, CA, are calling for more housing that working people can afford.
Growing Smart: APA Issues Landmark Planning Guide
The American Planning Association has released "Growing Smart: Legislative Guidebook and User Manual." Neal Pierce believes it may "remake America's future."
Understanding Mezzanine Financing
Mezzanine securitization has become a popular real estate investment vehicle. Get the inside scoop.
Housing Scam Rocks Philadelphia
For three years Rickie Williams sold neglected homes that didn't belong to him.
Robert C. Davenport Built Innovative Subdivisions
Robert Carroll Davenport, who built innovative subdivision in N. Virginia died at 96.
Urban Planner Joins Lower Manhattan Rebuilding Effort
Urban planner Alexander Garvin will join the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation as vice president for planning, design and development.
Lifestyle Centers
Upscale, pedestrian-friendly, village-type storefronts with commanding architectural programs are becoming the latest retail trend.
Should You Use Building Commissioning?
As buildings become more technologically complex, commissioning has become a popular tool for a building owner to verify that everything works.
Mixed-Use, Landmark Status For Chicago's Union Station
The Chicago Landmarks Commission will recommend to the City Council that Union Station be named a city landmark. The commission also gave its blessing to a plan to add 18 stories to the existing 8-story structure.
Designing Housing To Meet A Demographic Challenge
National Association of Home Builders organizes a competition for designing senior-friendly housing.
Singles Make Up Larger Share Of Suburban Households
This new analysis of 2000 Census data shows that the types of households fueling growth in metropolitan America are challenging conventional notions of who lives in cities and suburbs.
Transforming Downtown Los Angeles
Reinventing downtown Los Angeles will lead the city to maturity.
Redeveloping The Rockaway Peninsula
City officials announce a new plan to develop a 308 acre neighborhood in Southeast Queens.
The Least Affordable Place To Buy A House
The National Association of Home Builders has released results of a survey of the least affordable places to buy a house.
World's Most Expensive Shopping Streets
Cushman & Wakefield researches the most expensive retail location in the world. Would you believe $700 per square foot?
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
