Housing
The Million Band March
Punks, rockers and artists protest skyrocketing San Francisco rents.
Will What Has Gone Up Ever Come Back Down Again?
The white-hot housing market in the Bay Area, has some wondering if a real estate crash is possible.
Edgeless Cities: The Result Of Sprawl?
The Brookings Institute coins a new term: Edgeless cities. Is this the end result of sprawl?
Online Financing
The Internet brings efficiencies to commercial real estate financing, but it does not change the fundamental process.
Apartment Construction In State Far Short Of Forecasts
September building permit figures show that fewer apartmentshave been constructed in California this year than the state predicted.
California Housing Gets Money, But No Respect
With affordable housing ranking as a major issue in nearly all of California, the Davis administration and the Legislature responded this year with a gigantic increase in funding for housing programs.
North Livermore Development Debate
Supporters of the two measures also disagree about which measure woulddo more to protect agriculture and open space.
Denver's Big Sqeeze
Denver has to make room for 100,000 more people. Where will they all go?
Teaming Up To Fight Urban Limit Line
Developers combine lawsuits against county's urban growth limit.
New HUD Regulations To Provide $2.4 Trillion For Affordable Housing
HUD announced newfederal regulations that require the nation's two largest housing finance companies to buy $2.4 trillionin mortgages during the next 10 years to provide affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- andmoderate-income families.
Lease Security
For companies that use creative space, like internet companies, the only thing harder than finding a space is negotiating for it.
Cleveland, Cincinnati Unite To Fight Sprawl
Greater Cleveland and Cincinnati share the same challenge - fighting sprawl.
Silicon Valley Sprouts Grand Estates Amidst Housing Shortage
While middle-class and low-wage workers suffer from an acute housing shortage, Silicon Valley magnates are erecting large estates.
Relocation Money Equals New Home
Glendale's Edison-Pacific project creates housing problems for some, but dream fulfillment for others.
Homeownership Rate Highest In Nation's History
The percent of Americans who own their homes hit a record high 67.7 percent in the third quarterof 2000.
Promises Made, Promises Kept?
Threats loom to the Community Reinvestment Act.
World's Fairs: Vehicles For Urban Improvement
With the right planning, a world’s fair can be a powerful agent for urban renewal.
A Tale of Two Washington Cities
Downtown revitalization efforts achieve different degrees of success in two Washington State cities.
Sprawl: Learn How To Deal With It
The Brookings Institute features a policy brief by Anthony Downs on how local cities can effectively deal with fast growth.
Cisco's High-Tech Campus Sprawl?
San Jose approves Internet company's plans for a sprawling development in rural Coyote Valley, stunning observers.
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
