Land Use
Development Limits Upheld
A Florida court overturns a local judge's ruling that would have allowed property owners to build on up to 15,000 lots created before strict land-use requirements were enacted.
Cluster Developments Approved
Smart growth's benefits are not enough to counter the market incentives to sprawl.
New Report Highlights Need To Curb Sprawl
Pembina Institute finds that existing provincial policies are an obstacle to reforming land use planning in Ontario
One Creek As A Test Of Western Land Use
A miner who owns claims along an Oregon creek brings a suit that could shift the balance between development and preservation.
Report Analyzes The Decline Of Pennsylvania
The truth hurts but hopefully we can learn from it.
America's Top Environmental Issue
The top environmental issue in most American communities is how to save nearby farmland or build new local parks.
Big-box Ban Opposed
A real estate group says banning big-box stores would cause economic pain.
Zoning And Sex Shops: Freeway Porn
A national pornography chain is opening 'adult superstores' in freeway-adjacent, smaller midwestern communities with lax zoning laws.
To Live in a Dump
A determined housing developer plans to build a mixed, residential development next to a future landfill, against the recommendations of county and solid waste officials.
Stripping Away Aging Strip Malls
As sprawl has hit the wall, places like Fremont, CA are looking to convert aging strip malls into mixed-use developments.
Strips Malls As Apartments?
A city in California hopes to create new housing from aging strip malls.
Rhode Island Needs A New Affordable Housing Law
Rhode Island struggles with the right mix of incentives for affordable housing.
The Other Side Of Smart Growth
A Wall Street Journal editorial comes down hard on smart growth, comparing it to Jim Crow and segregation laws.
Subdivision Regulations: Practices & Attitudes
The Lincoln Institute publishes the results of a survey of public officials and developers in the nation's fastest growing single family housing markets.
Aggressive Growth Management For New Orleans Suburb
How does St. Tammany radically redefine the way growth occurs to save the parish from its own success?
Words From A Powerbroker Planner -- From 1962
Relive planning history in Robert Moses' attack on Lewis Mumford from January, 1962 in The Atlantic Monthly.
Sexist Zoning
Students and faculty of Ewha Womans' University in Seoul protest the designation of a 'beauty zone' in their vicinity.
Development Takes Live/Work To The Next Level
An Orange County developer is successfully marketing dwelling units that owners can legally use to receive customers and hire employees in a suburban residential setting.
Michigan's Business Strategy Based On Smart Growth
State's economic pain sows seeds of prosperity.
Zoning Without Zoning
Houston, Texas is the only large American city with no formal zoning code. Does it matter?
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Caltrans
City of Fort Worth
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Mpact (founded as Rail~Volution)
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Portland
City of Laramie
