Land Use
Top Ten Sprawling Metro Areas
Three-year study ranks 83 metropolitan areas and associates urban sprawl with highway deaths, air pollution, and traffic. Find out your city's ranking.
The End Of The American West
Who will replace the cowboy?
Preserving City Parks
Long Beach, CA approved a policy that protects existing city parks and compensates lost park space with open space elsewhere in the city.
Development Of County Trail Under Dispute
King County, Washington is looking to resolve privacy, land rights and safety issues concerning the development of a 10.6 mile county trail.
Sprawl Is Threatening National Security
Across the nation the missions of military installations are being threatened by incompatible land development.
Extreme Sprawl
What would happen if every city and county in Florida implemented their land use plans? A map created from 457 land-use plans has the answer.
Debunking New Urbanism
Urban policy researcher Dr. Sam Staley counters New Urbanism.
Reality Check On Growth
Visioning exercise challenges participants to consider where to locate Southern California's projected 6 million new residents.
Former L.A. County Planner Arrested For Fraud
A former Los Angeles County planner was arrested for falsifying public records that cost the county "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Zoning Ordinance Change Irks Residents
Proposed changes to Phoenix's zoning ordinance restricts community input.
Avoiding Big-box Nightmares In Older Urban Neighborhoods
Kansas City, Mo. fashions zoning regulations to preserve the character of a vital historic neighborhood.
To Be Competitive, Grow Smart
For Michigan to be competitive it should curb sprawl,implement Smart Growth strategies, and focus on quality-of-life issues.
Should Planners Lead Where Politicians Can't?
A California state senator who's retiring -- but not shy -- says politicans can no longer lead and therefore planners must do it instead.
Suburban Sprawl Threatens Nation's Most Productive Farmland
A study by American Farmland Trust shows that wasteful land use is the root cause of farmland development.
Progressive Regional Planning In Louisville
City-county merger and Cornerstone 2020 result in design regulations for all proposed commercial and residential developments.
Forceful Growth Management
Apartments constructed in violation of growth rules are demolished under court order.
An Antidote To Sprawl?
Can Smart Growth limit urban sprawl?
Sprawl Spreads Two Acres Per Minute
Development consumes two acres of prime farmland each minute in the U.S.
Southern California's Last Undevelopment Sliver
After more than a decade of bitterprotests, one of the last untouched pieces of developable land in Southern California may finally be approved.
Sprawl And Drought: A Deadly Combination
Neal Peirce comments on what the water emergencies of 2002 tell us about sprawl and smart growth.
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.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
