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Part High-Rise, Part Wind Turbine Opens In Bahrain
<p>In the oil rich Middle East, a new twin tower development is utilizing wind turbines installed between the buildings to generate up to 15 percent of the structure's energy needs.</p>
Facilitating A Community Dialog On The Internet
<p>The City of Oak Harbor, Washington is giving residents a chance to sound off about planning and development issues on several blogs.</p>
City Accused Of Neglecting Community To Make Way For Redevelopment
<p>Business and property owners in Willets Point, Queens have filed suit against New York City officials, claiming the city has deprived the area of basic services in order to declare the community blighted and begin redevelopment proceedings.</p>
Reclaiming L.A. as a Cycling City
<p>Over 100 years ago, a wooden bicycle highway linked Pasadena to Los Angeles. Now cycling activists are hoping that, by closing the Arroyo Seco Parkway to automobiles for "ArroyoFest," Angelinos can once again imagine a cycling future for LA.</p>
Missed Opportunity at D.C. Retail Development
<p>In a part of D.C. that has been largely ignored as the rest of the city reinvents itself with mixed-use development and pedestrian friendly design, one new single-use retail development stands out as an example of what not to build.</p>
Looking Backwards: 'The End of Suburbia' 4 Years Later
<p>When it came out in 2004, "The End of Suburbia" was required viewing for anti-sprawl activists. Now, four years later, the film is both quaint and frighteningly prophetic, writes Dorothy Woodend.</p>
Hollywood, Reborn and Transformed
<p>By nearly any measure, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood has been radically transformed in the last 10 years, becoming a bar-hopper’s dream, a gourmet’s destination, and a rising shopping and housing district.</p>
The Modern Prefab Home Movement
<p>In a recent interview, architect Allison Arieff talks about the past, present and future of modern prefabricated housing.</p>
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A Next Level of Urban Achievement in Vancouver?
<p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Long before I arrived here, I've been a fan and student of Vancouver city-building. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial"> </span> </p>
A Comeback For Public Housing?
<p>With HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's departure, it's time to begin reinvesting in the nation's public housing stock.</p>
Downtown Salt Lake Will Get Its Sky Bridge
<p>The controversial plan, which critics fear will hurt street life, gets the go ahead from the city council.</p>
A Call For Smart Growth-Based New Towns
<p>It's politics, not planning, that drives up housing costs. Rather than back away from regulations, more professional planning is needed to create healthy and affordable communities.</p>
Can Los Angeles Plan Its Way To Mobility?
<p>With a growing population, a sprawling urban landscape, and uncertain public funding, Los Angeles seems to be hoping for a miracle with its latest transportation planning effort.</p>
Encouraging Mixed-Use Big Box Retail
<p>By requiring a minimum height of at least two stories, cities could force big boxes to redesign their buildings into more urban friendly forms.</p>
Transit Ridership Is Up, But So Are Costs
<p>More and more people are riding public transit systems, which many officials see as a good sign. But the added strains to the systems are placing many in tight financial situations.</p>
Crime Cameras Move Crime, Not Deter It
<p>In San Francisco, "crime cameras" intended to ward of crime and record any illegal activity that occurs have been shown by a recent report to do little to prevent crimes from taking place.</p>
Put up a Park in the Lot
<p>Ruben Anderson suggests that if automobile parking could be kept to properties, that could free up the former on-street parking to become Garden Streets, so that cities could grow much more of their own produce.</p>
Honolulu Light Rail Plans Expected to Receive Nearly $1 Billion
<p>Politicians in Washington D.C. are getting behind Honolulu's plans for a $3.7 billion light rail system, calling it the "most efficient light rail project in the country".</p>
The New Street Thinking
<p>Though congestion pricing was shot down, New Yorkers are thinking about new ways to experience and use their streets.</p>
Californians Say 'Make Gas Guzzlers Pay'
<p>A new poll shows that many of the state's residents support new ideas for funding transportation improvements, including charging higher fees to drivers of SUVs and other fuel inefficient vehicles.</p>
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
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.
