Housing
Stacked Parking Could Double Capacity
An idea long used in European and Asian cities, stacked parking is now being discussed in San Francisco.
Record House Prices in San Francisco
San Francisco median home price soared beyond the $500,000 mark and inventories are running low.
The American City in A.D. 2025
What will our cities be in 25 years? The question calls up a caricature, a grotesque vision of ultimate ghettoization.
Garden Grove Gambles on New Hotels
Garden Grove, CA, is planning six new hotels but some question if the city will benefit from the heavily subsidized hotels.
Disney's Third California Theme Park
Disney plans to build a third theme park in Anaheim, California, alongside existing Disneyland,and Disney's California Adventure.
San Bernardino's Bold Rejuvenation Plan -- Use Water!
A plan to use excess water to rejuvenate San Bernardino's blighted areas is proposed. Lakes, streams, running paths, parks and waterfront shops are included in this $200 million first phase estimate.
Cisco Details Campus Plans
Cisco systems, San Jose's largest private employer, detailsplans for a controversial $1.3 billion campus development in Coyote Valley - the city's most desirable open space.
Queensway Bay: Will It Float?
Is a $100 million entertainment complex on the Long Beach waterfront permissible or prohibited under the Tidelands Trust?
Happiest Place on Earth May Get Happier!
Second Disney theme park will open in February 2001. Third park for Anaheim planned.
The Paradox of Infrasructure Investment
The potential benefits of public capital investments are of two sorts -- market benefits and "quality of life" benefits.
$400 Million North Hollywood Project Stalled
A six month delay is granted to JARCO's 2-million-square-foot retail redevelopment project near North Hollywood's Red Line station.
Coastal Growth Boom a National Phenomenon
Wealthy retirees, aging baby-boomers, and professionals with flexible work arrangements aided by technologyare flocking to coastal areas and the resulting growth boom is reshaping the nation's coasts.
Dearth Valley
How would you like to commute 100 miles in each direction? It's happening in Silicon Valley because jobs there are a dime a dozen. Housing isn't.
Dirt Into Dollars
The Brookings Review takes a new approach to converting vacant land into valuable development.
Analysts Find Open Space Proposal Flawed
County planning analysis finds Sierra Club's open space initiative unlikely to ease traffic and or save agriculturein Alameda County, California.
Oceanside Approves 1000-Home Project
Proposed 1000-home project in Oceanside, CA, approved by City Council.
San Diego Growth Survey
Concerns about growth loom large in San Diego. Residents see government as major part of problem, but optimism about region’s future reigns.
$39 Million for San Mateo County Land
The Peninsula Open Space Trust plans to purchase 1,719 acres of land along California's San Mateo coast for $39 million.
Buyer Be Worried!
Not enough sellers, not enough homes, what's a prospective homebuyer to do?
Delta's Field of Dreams
San Joaquin farming town hedges future on theme park and European villages despite warnings that plan is doomed.
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
