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Golf Carts: California's Latest Transit Trend
The new trend in California is a redesigned golf cart that can operate on the roads at 25 m.p.h. It's the perfect alternative for short trips
LA's Downtown: A Tale Of Two Cities
Can the cultural corridor of Downtown LA's Bunker Hill coexist with the successful and gritty ethnic communities below it?
Historic Preservation Or Smart Growth?
In some areas of Philadelphia, the teardowns of historic shoe-boxy abodes for million-dollar mansions is a 'regular demolition derby.'
A Renaissance In South Phoenix
Developers are scrambling to build in South Phoenix -- an area suffering from high crime and poverty -- but also the region's last untapped area for growth
California's Eroding Rural Areas
Across California, once-prized agriculture areas are being squeezed by rapidly growing populations and development. What can be done?
The Cost Of North America's Success
U.S. and Canada have had success at improving local environments -- but at what cost?
The Next Stage In Suburbia: Downtowns
Suburban downtowns are taking cues from urban traditions to create vibrant and complex downtowns, writes John King.
Lower Manhattan Rebuilding Plans Expanded
Official say plans to rebuild the site of the World Trade Center have been expanded to all of downtown.
Security Concerns Push Firms To Suburbs
This is the last in a series of occasional articles on security, buildings, and cities after 9/11 by Boston Globe urban planning writer Anthony Flint.
Do Architecture Competitions Work?
Witold Rybczynski writes in The Atlantic Monthly that public architecture competitions don't always produce the best buildings.
New Skyscraper Limits Could Curb Futuristic Skyline
Shanghai, the city with one of the world's most futuristic skylines, is considering limits on new skyscrapers.
A Long-Range View Of Downtown
Redeveloping Lower Manhattan requires a different kind of social vision.
Re-engineering A Cultural Icon
Redesigned to be environmetally friendly, the new Vespa is also more powerful.
NY's Proposed Building Code Changes
Proposed changes must walk a fine line between economic reality and protectiveness.
A Competitive Vision For Cities
What makes a city competitive? The people of Louisville and Jefferson County are asking that question as they prepare for the nation's largest consolidation in more than 20 years.
Clash Over Demand For Power
Despite opposition by lawmakers and environmental groups, power officials asked federal regulators to activate a new transmission line running under Long Island Sound.
Gridlock In Toronto? Never.
A report by a Smart Growth Panel on gridlock in suburban Toronto leaves this columnist questioning the meaning of gridlock.
Mansionization Restrictions Emerge
A Planning Commission in Orange County, CA, approves new mansionization restrictions on homeowners building massive homes.
WTC Proposals Flood In To CNN
CNN has received over 900 designs for the WTC site from its viewers.
The Earthship Has Landed
The U.K. is the first country in Europe to grant full planning approval for Earthship dwellings.
Smith Gee Studio
City of Charlotte
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
US High Speed Rail Association
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
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Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
