Land Use

The National Park Service is evolving its role to keep pace with a changing world.

August 4, 2016 - ASLA The Dirt

The Rail Deck Park could end up being known forever as the #RailDeckPark the way the social media buzz built for this splashy project proposal this week.

August 4, 2016 - CBC News

Citing several recent projects, Alan G. Brake argues that New York City is developing an urban identity that no longer transmits every experience through the lens of Manhattan.

August 2, 2016 - Dezeen

New research has found a link between drug dealing and certain urban environments, which researchers believe can lead to better policing strategies.

August 2, 2016 - London School of Economics and Political Science American Politics and Policy Blog

Car registration statistics from Multnomah County show passenger vehicle ownership is less popular among its growing number of residents. The residents forgoing cars have done themselves a favor in more ways than one.

August 1, 2016 - Bike Portland

How do you define a cool city? What makes a street or neighborhood hip? It's not too difficult to identify the right ingredients; it's putting them together that becomes the challenge.

July 31, 2016 - Indianapolis Business Journal

Not only would a new $150.6 billion proposal build a high-speed rail project to connect Sydney and Melbourne, it would also build eight new cities along the way.

July 30, 2016 - Next City

MARTA's Five Points station will be the first to test an idea of building small soccer fields at multiple transit stations in the system.

July 28, 2016 - Creative Loafing

A new statistical analysis of Airbnb listings shows the short-term-rental service is growing worldwide, but suggests that many hosts don't stick with it. Intermittent commercial uses of residences could be seen in the planning context of "mixed use."

July 27, 2016 - Martin John Brown

On July 25, 1916, New York adopted its first Zoning Resolution, for the first time regulating the height, size and arrangement of buildings in the city.

July 25, 2016 - The New York Times

Test your knowledge of the New York home base of Donald Trump's real estate business.

July 25, 2016 - Curbed New York

Though housing advocates consider micro-housing units a helpful tool in keeping housing affordable, the city of Seattle has nonetheless produced a series of regulations making such projects harder and harder to build.

July 24, 2016 - Neiman Taber

The market for office space has more and more companies looking to lease, according to an industry report.

July 24, 2016 - The Dallas Morning News

A logistics park in Fenton, expected to attract $382 million in investment, will move forward with $50 million in tax increment financing.

July 23, 2016 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Los Angeles Rams COO details both the stadium's sustainable design and the positive impact the privately funded complex will have on Southern California.

July 22, 2016 - The Planning Report

Forty-two conservation districts in 25 state received grants totaling $2 million this week. The funding will create technical assistance opportunities for urban agriculture and conservation projects.

July 22, 2016 - National Association of Conservation Districts

The people's choice: Pac-Man.

July 22, 2016 - CityLab

A recent study by Trulia concentrates on elasticity (i.e., the rate at which housing stock grows, relative to demand), and arrives at the conclusion that bureaucracy, not regulation, is responsible for rising housing prices.

July 21, 2016 - Trulia

A new paper studies the impacts both of specific land use regulations and land use regulations in the aggregate.

July 21, 2016 - Market Urbanism

Concepts like erasure, greenfield development, and easements figure into this story about a rural community on the fringes of suburban development in Maryland's Montgomery County.

July 21, 2016 - National Council on Public History