Land Use
Smart Growth Demystified
How can smart growth principles be tailored for California?
Prime So. Cal. Real Estate Is For The Birds
Five thousand acres of prime Southern California real estate is declared critical habitat for the gnatcatcher bird and the fairy shrimp.
Is The Dot-com Backlash As Bad As Sprawl?
A signficant dot-com backlash is on the rise in high-tech hot spots from Seattle to Austin, Texas, to Chicago. Could this be the new urban sprawl?
Brownfields Bill Stymied in Senate
Legislative horse-trading blocks vote on contaminated urban land development measure.
CA Cities Discover Downside to Dot-coms
Cities throughout California are taking emergency steps against 'office creep' by high-technology companies.
Will Planning Fail In San Francisco?
Once a beacon of liberal activism and Bohemian charm, this city looks increasingly like the epitome of New Economy capitalism.
Maryland Begins to Battle Back
Maryland's 'smart growth' program.
Sprawl Gobbling up California's Open Space
Almost 70,000 acres of open space in California was lost tourbanization from 1996 to 1998, according to the state Department ofConservation's biennial Farmland Conservation Report.
Outer Belt vs. Inner Belt: The First Suburbs
Northeastern Ohio cities are hoping to lure residents back to the "first suburbs."
'It's progress, you can't stop it'
It may be too late for a statewide ballot measure designed to "keep farmland out of the hands of developers."
Austin Suffers Growing Pains
Doubling in metro population strangles region.
50-year Odyssey: How City Shrank
A look at Greater Cincinnati's urban growth over the last fifty years.
The Vanishing Farm
Ohio is losing farmland at "more than twice previous year's yearly rate" and issues such as sprawl, greenspace preservation, watershed protection, and revitalizing urban brownfields are becoming critical.
Planners Debate Boston's Big Dig
Boston's massive Big Dig project -- considered the most expensive highway project in the nation -- will bury Interstate 93 under downtown Boston and "leave a 30-acre swath of open land cutting through the heart of the city"heart of the city."
Copper River Ranch Project is Urban Sprawl
There are significant problems with the Copper River Ranch plan in light of League of Women Voters' positions on transportation, land use and air quality.
Sprawl Emerges as Hot Issue in Swing Districts
A growing number of U.S. House and Senate candidates have adopted issues predominantly associated with local government as concernwith overdevelopment, diminishing open space, overcrowded schools, gridlock, and air and water quality increases.
Coastal Commission OKs Seal Beach Homes
After a twenty year fight, Hellman Ranch in Seal Beach gets approval for a 70-Home project. The wetland golf course has been scrapped.
On Sprawl's Front Lines
The Greater Cincinnati area battles against sprawl.
'Most livable' Sprawls Into 'Least Navigable'
Cincinnati,the fourth most sprawl-threatened city in the nation, has been dramatically changed by sprawl.
Sprawl is Taking Over America
Has the suburban dream turned into a nightmare?
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.
City of Mt Shasta
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
