Land Use

Environmental groups are warring with Congressmen on making wetland permitting more 'accessible'.

November 3, 2005 - The St. Petersburg Times

Bob Day, president of the Australian Housing Industry Association, challenges the idea that sprawl is bad, and suggests that policies that promote urban density are the foundation of the country's housing affordability crisis.

November 3, 2005 - Housing Industry Association Ltd. (Australia)

Author and commentator Joel Kotkin and consulting firm, The Planning Center, team up to produce what they are calling 'A Realist's Guide to The American Future.'

November 2, 2005 - The Planning Center / Joel Kotkin

Environmentalists worry about the long and short-term effects of using the swamps as a landfill for waste from Hurricane Katrina.

November 2, 2005 - CNN

U.S. Census Bureau has released first-ever estimates of cities' daytime population changes.

November 2, 2005 - The Washington Post

In Livermore, California, a developer spends $3 million to convince voters to pass a bond measure that would enable the developer to build on 1,400 acres of grassland adjacent to the city.

November 1, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

The Boston Museum Project will occupy a full block on the emerging Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, and will be a center for residents and visitors interested in Massachusetts's rich history.

October 31, 2005 - The Boston Globe

Developer plans to replace a 14 square mile subsistance farm run by an organization of immigrants with a factory warehouse.

October 31, 2005 - The Daily Trojan

Grist Magazine asks a motley crew of movers and shakers to put on their thinking caps and answer the question.

October 31, 2005 - Grist Magazine

The idea that limiting sprawl leads to a scarcity of homes and increased home prices just doesn't hold up, according to new research from California State University at Sacramento.

October 31, 2005 - California State University at Sacramento

Expansion of greenfield development in rural parts of Ada County, Idaho, is cause for concern among some public sector policymakers like Boise's Mayor David Bieter.

October 30, 2005 - The Idaho Statesman

With Houston as a case study, Michael Lewyn argues that overregulation creates automobile-dependent urban form.

October 29, 2005 - Wayne Law Review

The associate director of a non-profit asserts that no-growth policies help increase housing costs.

October 28, 2005 - San Mateo County Times, CA

Chicago Tribune Architecture critic Blair Kamin thinks so as he compares the rebuilding of coastal Mississippi with Daniel Burnham's Beaux-Arts Civic Improvements.

October 28, 2005 - The Chicago Tribune

Only in Los Angeles... A posh kids' treehouse in Brentwood inspires the ire of his neighbor who calls in LA's building inspector to shut down construction.

October 27, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

Lifestyle centers, like shopping malls of the past, are contributing to the decline of city centers across the country.

October 26, 2005 - AIA Oregon Architect Newsletter

Calling it an 'Emerlad Necklace', Atlanta plsnd to create an innovative 22-mile loop from an abandoned railroad into parks and transit that connect historic neighborhoods across the city.

October 25, 2005 - The Los Angeles Times

The principal spokesman for Maryland’s high-profile Smart Growth Initiative analyzes the program's strenghts and weaknesses and offers strategies for similar statewide, incentive-based programs.

October 25, 2005 - Vermont Journal of Environmental Law

Once a small seaside city most Americans know only from its namesake movie, Casablanca is now Morocco's biggest city and a sprawling metropolis.

October 24, 2005 - International Herald Tribune

The first segment of an 18-mile multi-use trail opens in Benton, Maine.

October 24, 2005 - Portland Press Herald