Infrastructure
New Orleans Levee Board Mismanaged Levees
Investigators in New Orleans are determining that a patchwork of local agencies supposedly responsible for overseeing the levee system, called 'levee districts' are to blame for many system failures.
Damming the World Bank
The World Bank recognizes the countless social and environmental problems caused by dams, but won't let them get in the way of building more and more dams.
ULI Details Plans For Rebuilding New Orleans
The panel on the reconstruction of New Orleans was the highlight of a week-long visit by Urban Land Institute (ULI) officials to the devastated area.
Revisiting Elia Kazan's 'Wild River'
The 1960 film, depicting the origins of the Tennessee Valley Authority, has been restored and got a rare screening at a recent film festival.
California's Infrastructure On The Edge Of Collapse
Major investments in transportation infrastructure are required to keep California moving. Many companies are leaving California due to congestion delays and cargo backups at the ports.
Have Stadium, Need Parking
A deal for a new stadium for the Washington Nationals seems to hinge on who will subsidize the parking, and how fancy the parking spaces will be.
How Helpful Are New Flood Zones?
Expanding them means stricter building codes, but critics say new flood zone regions may encourage construction.
The Inner Life Of A City Gets Dragged To The Curb
Collecting trash left by Katrina -- about 22 million tons for New Orleans alone -- is expected to take months, if not years.
Design Competition For Pittsburgh Pedestrian Bridge
Pittsburgh, PA. invites architects, engineers, designers and others to participate in an international competition to design a pedestrian bridge.
Four Visions For Reconstructing The Big Easy
A collection of environmental, political, and academic leaders share their unique visions for reconstructing the Big Easy post-Katrina.
Good Fences Make Good International Neighbors
A new immigration proposal in the House calls for an electronic fence to be built along the Mexico-U.S. border.
Why New Orleans Levees Failed
The lessons learned apply to other US cities -- and need to be quickly absorbed in the Big Easy.
Underground City Goes On The Market
Cold War City, Britain -- a subterranean complex built during the height of the Cold War -- is on the market along with the military base above.
'Back Door' Flooding Of New Orleans: An Unnatural Disaster
A science columnist reflects on a city made possible and made vulnerable by reliance on technology.
Katrina's Implications for Disaster Management: Lessons Learned From New Orleans
Two months after Katrina, what have we learned? Graham Stroh analyzes Katrina's disaster management lessons on law enforcement, communication and social infrastructure.
Rural India Trying To Jump On The Info-Tech Bandwagon
Information technology is finally trickling into rural india but faces major hurdles of inadequate infrastructure, content and usability.
How To Protect New Orleans
Safeguarding against future natural disasters is the most important thing New Orleans can do to bring the businesses back.
Book Review: Lessons From The 1906 San Francisco Quake?
'A Crack in the Edge of the World' by Simon Winchester, has a few nuggets of interest, but is 'filled with enough geological minutiae to fell James Michener.'
2000-foot-tall Pigeon Roost for Chicago's Lakefront?
Will cable and satellite TV make the massive Cesar Pelli-designed HDTV tower proposed for Chicago's Gold Coast a white elephant? Lynn Becker critiques the Beitler Tower proposal.
Massive System Failures In Levees Found
Investigators find a series of flaws at every level in the 'conception, design, construction and maintenance' of New Orleans' levee system.
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 Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
