Land Use
The Two Faces Of Sprawl
The seemingly disparate interests and concerns of urban and rural residents need to be balanced to address sprawl. Is mass transit the solution?
Libertarians At The Gates Of New Urbanism
PLANetizen features a debate exploring the potential of using market-oriented approaches, rather than more public policy, to further the spread of New Urbanism.
Suburbia's Tide Threatens Identity Of Rural America
Ripple cities: California's new inland empire.
The Limits Of Urban Growth Boundaries And Urban Rail
A new Reason report examining San Jose's smart growth policies demonstrates that urban growth boundaries and light rail don't always work as planned.
Master Planning And Infrastucture
The City Manager for the city of Santa Clarita, CA discusses the challenges of planning and infrastructure under California's state/local fiscal relationship.
The 'Smart Growth' Debate Continues
The debate about managing metropolitan growth shows no sign of subsiding. After years of listening to anti-sprawl rhetoric, critics of "smart growth" have passed on the offensive.
How Airports Are Reused
Across the country, former airports like Denver's 1929 Stapleton Airport are becoming neighborhoods.
Rural Areas Become Test Cases For Smart Growth
As subdivisions begin sprouting in formerly rural areas, counties trying to preserve the quiet life are being dragged into the debate over sprawl.
Mass. Seeks To Develop Abandoned State Properties
Gov. Romney may tread where local authorities have historically held sway
The Nation's Newest And Largest Park
A former military base in southern California is being turned into one of nation's largest municipal parks.
The 'Mythical' World Of Transit-oriented Development
A detailed report examines the Orenco/231st TODs outside of Portland and suggests that policy makers should lower their expectations of what TOD can deliver.
Searching For 'Sensible Sprawl'
A coalition of environmental groups advocates the establishment of a state-level Office of Smart Growth in Michigan.
Big Box Proposal Tests Regional Planning In Pennsylvania
Wal-Mart must convince six neighboring communities to approve its plans for a giant supercenter in a rural township.
Market-Oriented New Urbanism
New Urbanism would do well distance itself from the smart growth agenda of restrictive land-use controls, writes Chris Fiscelli.
Edge Cities Have Lost Their Edge
Are edge cities just a "passing phenomenon?"
Michigan Apartheid
Reforming land use policy can help most segregated state
A Good Deal Or 'Sweetheart' Deal?
Is the deal involving a 1,000-car parking garage at the beach, built at no cost to the city and the developer of proposed 1 million square foot high rise condo in Fort Lauderdale a sweetheart deal?
Redevelopment In The U.K.
A UK panel finds that national redevelopment policies are 'disjointed and wasteful.'
Slow Sprawl With Smaller Lots
Zoning rules that require large lots are contributing to sprawl.
Placemaking: Smart Growth And The Arts
Artists need places and places need artists -- how the arts and smart growth can work together.
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.
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
