Land Use
Passage Of Planned Growth Strategy Signals New Era
The Planned Growth Strategy approved on a 7-2 vote by the Albuquerque city council is intended to encourage growth in older parts of the city that have existing services, such as school capacity, roads and sewer and water service.
Farmland Security Perimeter
Eight Madera County, CA farmers have drawn a line in the soil by creating special type of urban growth boundary that could become a nationwide model.
Toronto's Vision
The Globe and Mail calls Toronto's new official city plan "utterly sensible."
Toronto's New City Plan
Toronto city planners have distilled the official plans from seven municipal entitites to draft an abmitious new city plan.
Kansas City: Saving Downtown
The Kansas City Star features a special five-part series, "Saving downtown: Why reviving the city center matters even in the suburbs."
Charrettes 101: Best Practices
The Oregonian profiles Bill Lennertz and the Charette Institute's course in Portland.
Forest City's Greg Vilkin Profiled
Forest City's Greg Vilkin eyes the future of Downtown Los Angeles' South Park, and what makes a successful developer.
PBS Special Tonight: The Sinking Of New Orleans
A hurricane could drown New Orleans and the risk increases every year.
Kent County's Plan To Protect Farmland
Agricultural land is vanishing fast in this western Michigan county as new homes, roads, and sprawl reach farther into the countryside.
The Plan Of Nashville
The 'Plan of Nashville' is an 18-month project to develop a vision of how the urban core should look, and urban design principles to guide the area's future.
Combining Schools And Shopping?
Aging regional malls with land assemblages of 50 acres or more, obsolete buildings and dwindling customer bases look like good quarries for school sites.
Growth Plan Suit Forces Apartments To Come Down
The razing of a luxury apartment complex in Florida has heartened environmentalists in their aim to keep out a Wal-Mart, Hernando Today reports.
Vancouver Is Growing Smart
A report released yesterday by Northwest Environment Watch and Smart Growth BC shows that Greater Vancouver is "growing smart".
Atlanta's Downtown Has No Soul
Three AJC journalists tour downtown Atlanta on foot and share their experience.
Catch 22: Regulator And Potential Buyer
Massachusetts Environmental Affairs Secretary finds itself in the untenable position of both a regulator and potential buyer for environmentally-sensitive lands.
After 25 Years Of Delay -- Malibu's Coastal Land Use Plan
The California Coastal Commission is set to adopt a coastal land use plan that the 27-mile-long ritzy seaside community has avoided for a quarter century.
Michigan Announces $150 Million Land Deal
Michigan Governor John Engler and the Nature Conservancy announce a land plan that will protect 390,000 acres of wilderness.
Commissioners, Developers Evaded Plan Guidelines
Luxury apartments demolished due to violation of local growth laws.
An In-your-face Rush On Coalbed Methane
The rush to develop energy in the Rocky Mountain West creates conflict between private surface and sub-surface property rights.
Developing L.A.'s Prime Residential Site
Catellus Development faces another uphill batter to build housing on one of Los Angeles' prime residential sites, directly above Playa Vista.
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
