Land Use
Getty Amphitheater Nixed
A judge has ruled that zoning does not allow for an amphitheater to be built at the Getty Villa art museum in Pacific Palisades.
Sprawl: You Love It, But Dare Not Speak It's Name
CNN features an in-depth debate between Peter Calthorpe, promoting new urbanism, and Peter Gordon and Harry Richardson defending sprawl.
California To Use Water Under Mojave Desert
There is disagreement on the environmental safety related to drilling water from beneath the Mojave. Will a mechanical device resolve the problem?
The Inner City And The Urban Future
The American city in the 21st Century: the view from Camden.
Deer Create Airport Havoc
Deer are wandering into Humbolt County's airport runways causing risky situations for aircraft.
CA Voters Want To Slow Growth
The process of initiative and referendum is California’s most peculiar institution. William Fulton explains why.
Next Generation of National Parks
The next generation of National Parks will "commemorate less-pristinelandscapes, as well as recognize overlooked and ignoble moments of history. "
From the Earth, A Rare Mineral and Controversy
Proposed expansion of the Adirondack quarry operations worries opponents who fear loss of quality of life.
Thirteen Cities Most At Risk Of Overbuilding
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has identified the thirteen US cities most at risk of overbuilding.
Luxury Housing Along Orange County Coast
After decades of controversy, lawsuits and threats, housing developments along Orange County's prime coastal areas are now moving forward.
New Urbanism in the New Millennium
Peter Katz, author of The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, takes a look at what new urbanism might look like in the future.
San Diego May Form Sprawl Agency
A new agency dealing with sprawl and congestion may go before voters in 2002.
Dense Housing, Buses Urged to Ease Traffic
In efforts to accommodate growth with population expected todouble over the next 20 years, local transportation officials andconsultants in Riverside County propose a fast moving shuttle system moving through densely populated communities.
A Plan That Could Change Boston Forever
Some say that this civic vision plan is the most responsible planning effort that's ever come out of Boston, and it could change the city forever.
Are Billboards Visual Trash?
Kansas City columnist writes: "Show me a billboard, and I'll show you litter with a home."
Best Urban Ideas In America
The Philadelphia News presents a list of what its editors found were the best ideas for cities in America.
Chicago's Inner-City Industrial Development
Under the right circumstances, inner-city industrial development can find a market.
Silicon Valley Towns Turn Anti-Growth
Redwood City, Palo Alto, Menlo Park consider stringent growth controls.
Religious Camp Accused Of Sprawl
Plans for a large Christian camp in Lake County, Colorado are seriously testing the tenet 'Love thy neighbor', and raises questions of sprawl.
HUD Stalls LA Cornfield Project
HUD is withholding $12 million from the Los Angeles Chinatown Cornfield industrial development until an environmental impact report is completed.
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
