Land Use
Urban Fringe Development Debated In South Africa
A draft spatial development framework in Cape Town has created a rift between developers and city planners over how much and what type of development should be allowed to push out to the city's urban fringe.
Idaho Blueprint for Good Growth Mired in Controversy
An Idaho regional land use plan is on hold as members debate policy implementation.
A Road Too Wide
As a neighborhood road in Jacksonville is widened from four to six lanes to attract business, many residents are expressing distaste. Michael Lewyn outlines the argument against road widening.
Can Zena Malek Give Arab Cities An Identity?
Recognized as one of the world's most influential female Arabs, architect Zena Malek has emerged as the most outspoken critic of how cities are being built in the Arab world.
Atlanta Greens With $2.8 Billion 'Beltline'
A plan is unfolding to create a 22-mile loop of green space and transit routes in downtown Atlanta, one of the most car-dependent cities in America. The plan started out as a graduate student's thesis and is now fully adopted by the city.
East African Capital City Proposes Master Plan Project
Kenya's land surveyors, town and physical planners, engineers, and architects will target Nairobi's blighted areas and try to prevent future unplanned developments.
An Australian Backlash Against Planning?
Australian urban planning critics are casting planning as the 'villain' in destroying the rapid suburbanization that has fueled a home-ownership dream. But this is a dangerous view, writes urban management professor Brendan Gleeson.
Duany Brings Charrette To Scotland
Scotland calls on Andres Duany and his firm to develop a housing plan for Inverness, which is facing rapid population growth. Duany plans to employ the charrette to hear the voice of the Scottish people, who have been engulfed in sprawl for decades.
S.F. Buildings Rising Higher, Despite Terror Threat
High-rise developments are increasing across the country, refuting many critics who predicted the end of the high rise after September 11, 2001. In San Francisco, many planners and developers want to go up in a big way, despite the terror threat.
Downsizing Cities To Reduce Global Warming Threat
A California architect is trying to recreate cities on a smaller scale in an effort to reduce the negative impacts of global warming facing the world's cities. He is called a 'visionary' by some, but criticized as unrealistic by others.
Bush Forest Plan Halted By Strong Opposition
Bush administration proposals to sell public land face strong opposition even from allies such as the National Rifle Association.
Ratcheting Down Density
Without a viable mass transit system and concentrated employment centers, Atlanta should reduce allowable density and build more roads, says one columnist.
Australia's PM Says Sprawl Is The Price For Cheap Housing
Prime Minister John Howard says that a lack of residentially zoned land is to blame for Australia's growing affordable housing shortage.
Bigger Incomes, Bigger Homes, Less Satisfaction
Americans are buying bigger homes and on average, to house fewer people. Ironically, their satisfaction in housing choice has eroded somewhat over the last twenty years.
Transit Oriented Development On The Rise In Atlanta
After years of inactivity, new mixed-use developments are sprouting around MARTA transit stations.
Is Vancouver, Canada The New Model For Urban Planning?
Having recently shown off its vibrant and dense downtown at the 2006 World Urban Forum, planners from around the world are looking to Vancouver as a model for sustainable urban planning.
Malls: Old vs New
A fight over a new development in suburban L.A. accentuates not only the tenacity and bitterness of local politics, but also two radically different visions for 21st century retail: large enclosed shopping malls or smaller New Urbanist templates.
All Eyes On Air District's Sprawl Fee Litigation
California's Central Valley, where farms are rapidly being converted to tract housing, has the worst air quality in the state. A new "sprawl fee" on developments based on vehicle trips they would generate has spawned a legal challenge from builders.
In Monterey California, It's Slow-Growth Advocates Versus Developers and Immigrants
What to do with an area that produces some 80 percent of the nation's lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, and spinach that lacks in housing for migrant workers? Why build more housing of course. Not so fast say "slow-growth" advocates.
UK Government Accused Of Violating 'Protective Planning' Laws
Environmentalists in England are charging local and central government officials with bending their own rules to allow various developments in scenic, rural areas and environmentally-sensitive lands.
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.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association
