Land Use
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.
A Blighted Block In San Francisco
One block in San Francisco's Tenderloin district is a microcosm of the challenges involved in planning.
Eminent Domain: Is It Good Planning?
Eminent domain -- even to build much-needed schools -- has become a political tool, and not a planning tool in New Haven.
Impact Fees: Can They Handle Growth?
In New Tampa, impact fees have covered only 17% of the costs of new development. The next option is to raise taxes.
Catholics Consider Sprawl A Moral Issue
Roman Catholics in Michigan support a campaign for balanced growth.
Unsprawl Case Study: Hillsboro, Oregon
The 209-acre neotraditional town of Orenco Station is transit-oriented, growing from its railway past.
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.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
KFH Group Inc.
Greater Baltimore Committee
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
