Land Use
Ten Tips For Revising Your General Plan
The community development director for the City of Saratoga, California offers ten things to remember when revising the general plan.
Many Eyes Watch New California HCD Program
A new state housing program is intended to encourage home construction in areas with high concentrations of jobs.
A Land-Use Plan That Bans Everything
They don't want people on the island. There are no stores, no utilities, no power lines. But the island has conflicts.
The Shady Side Of Planning
A Los Angeles County urban planner in is suspected of selling certificates of compliance.
Greater Cincinnati Needs A Regional Plan
According to Myron Orfield, sprawl has made the Greater Cincinnati region one of the nation's most fragmented region.
Creating A Regional Vision For Central Texas
John Fregonese and Peter Calthorpe lead an effort to develop a regional vision for Central Texas.
Traffic Congestion Hurts Economy
Businesses hurt by congested roads in Southeast Michigan have formed the Michigan Smart Growth coalition to address sprawl.
Cincinnati's Sprawl
Cincinnati is experiencing rapid and disturbing deterioration in the city's older suburbs.
Managing Growth Through Open Space Acquisition
Open space acquisition programs are becoming a popular and successful way to manage growth in California.
Is Urban Sprawl Good For Minorities?
For all the blame it gets for a number of societal problems, is sprawl a good thing for Black America?
Urban Sprawl: Not Just For Big Cities
Indiana's smaller cities are experiencing a problem they thought only impacted big cities -- sprawl.
It's Not Easy To Fight Sprawl
Controlling sprawl in Greater Cincinnati is difficult when many communities believe that they do not face a sprawl problem.
California's Desert Housing Shortage
California's fourth-fastest growing county is facing a housing crisis: thousand of working poor live in illegal mobile home parks.
Joel Kotkin: New York May See Benefits Of Sprawl
Joel Kotkin writes that, like most other major U.S. cities, New York will have to rethink its development strategy and spread out to survive.
Planning On Waldron
Resident of the remote 4.5-square-mile island of Waldron are trying to zone privacy.
Mixing Suburbia And Density In Baltimore
Baltimore planners are proposing what the Maryland Sun calls 'the future of suburban development.'
Somerville: A Test Case For Smart Growth
Somerville is a test case for the proposition that a community can be committed to smart growth in hard economic times.
Project Approvals, Denials Draw Lawsuits
After two years of intense planning, Delray Beach's efforts to approve a $36 million, 59 foot high, mixed-use redevelopment complex, with 219 units, 12,300 square feet of shopping and 207 parking spaces -- came to a grinding halt.
Rent Control's Comeback In Kingston, MA
Tenants in a mobile home community in Kingston, MA say rent control is the best tool to prevent huge increases in leases on their properties.
Reactivating Nashville's Downtown
A strong residential component in an urban mixed-use neighborhood is completing Nashville's downtown renaissance.
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.
Municipality of Princeton
Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission
City of Mt Shasta
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
US High Speed Rail Association
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
