Land Use
Smart Growth Toolkit
The Urban Land Institute's smart growth toolkit shows best practices for success.
Special PBS Report On New Urbanism
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer has created a website featuring detailed interviews and images about new urbanism.
Lone Mountain Compact: Livability Principles
The Lone Mountain Compact: Principles for preserving freedom and livabilityin America's cities and suburbs.
OC Approves $1.5 Million For El Toro
The county supervisors vote 3-2 to set aside money for Washington lobbyists to transfer the base to the county.
New Approaches To Growth Management
Governor Jeb Bush's taskforce on growth is drafting new legislation to slow sprawl in the state.
Sustainable Agriculture Amid Sprawl
King County is experimenting with sustainable agriculture in the midst of sprawl.
Is Land Use Planning Doomed To Failure?
This editorial suggests that land use practices are doomed to failure because they rely on zoning that ignores natural resources.
NY Times Sprawl Controversy
The director of Smart Growth America, disputes a New York Times article about a splinter in the smart growth community.
Managing Growth: Some Cities Take Action
Some cities in Georgia are creating their own long-term strategies to combat urban sprawl. Critics argue that some "smart growth" ordinances violate property rights and cause other problems.
What Is Your State's Most Enlightened Town?
Utne Reader publishes its list of the most enlightened town for every American state.
America's 10 Most Enlightened Towns
This isn't your typical "best places" tabulation of cities. Utne Reader creates it's own definition of community.
What Makes Regionalism Work?
The Alliance for Regional Stewardship publishes a reports on what makes regionalism work.
Transit-Oriented Development
New Urban News' December, 2000 issue includes a feature on transit-oriented development.
California's Housing Crisis
California's housing crisis has no cure without Proposition 13 reforms.
Goodbye To Garden Apartments
Does the need for housing in New York spell the end of the gardens in garden apartments
Growth Requires New Approaches To Planning
Faced with record growth, Wake County, NC is taking a new, more active role in the region's planning.
Denver's Fumbling Growth
The Denver Post critically reviews Colorado's growth management efforts in 2000, and lays out an agenda for 2001.
Smart Growth Must Include Affordable Housing
According to the new Urban Land Institute chairman, smart growth must include affordable housing.
San Diego County Backcountry Battle Continues
Planning for a long stretch of rural lands on the fringe of suburban San Diego County continues to be a roiling controversy.
Extreme Commuting: California Land Rush Continues
Silicon Valley's high housing prices are pushing homeowners into outlying areas where growth is exploding into farmland. The typical "Bay Area transplant" faces an average one-way commute of 58.3 miles from work.
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.
One Hundred Miles
County of Mendocino
planning NEXT
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Montrose County
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
