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Historic Preservation Should Consider Soundscapes, Not Just Cityscapes
<p>In an interview with <em>Preservation Online</em>, author Anne Matthews explains the growing movement to preserve historic sounds.</p>
Fixing Traffic Without Help From Uncle Sam
<p>Desperate to find ways to relieve traffic congestion, local planners are getting creative with transportation plans and potential sources of revenue.</p>
Will New Yorkers Outwit The City's Planned Congestion Pricing Scheme?
<p>Unscrupulous Londoners have already learned how to beat that city's famed congestion charge system, and with Mayor Bloomberg's plan relying on the same technology, there are worries about a surge in license plate counterfeiting.</p>
Clamping Down On Urban Noise Could Help Fight Climate Change
<p>Could the secret to getting more people to adopt higher-density (and therefore more sustainable) living be designing a soundproof apartment?</p>
Venezuela Plans New Cities As Socialist Utopias
<p>President Hugo Chávez is guiding government plans to create several brand new cities to serve as models of social and environmental harmony.</p>
Two Projects, 20 Years Apart, Constitute One CEQA Project
<p>A court of appeal in California ruled that a decades-old plan to realign a road and a two-year-old plan to build a big box improvement store nearby only need to undergo one environmental impact analysis under the state's Environmental Quality Act.</p>
Starchitects Designing More Than Just Buildings
<p>With the pipeline of glitzy real estate projects slowing, star designers are branching out with new fashion items and other luxury goods.</p>
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Developing A TND Ordinance
<p><em>When I opened my email this morning I was delighted to see that the City of Flagstaff unanimously approved a <a href="/www.smartcodecentral.com">SmartCode</a> based TND ordinance. The ordinance, created to make a recent <a href="/www.doverkohl.com">Dover Kohl</a> designed project called Juniper Point legal, allows a more compact, pedstrian friendly urban pattern to be established within the City. This is a crucial step in providing alternatives to business as usual sprawl development. Fortunately, more and more cities - From Jamestown, Rhode Island to Miami, Florida, to Montgomery, Alabama - are making smart growth a legal and easy choice. </em> </p>
Making It Cool To Walk To School
<p>A newly released study looked at various programs designed to encourage more students to walk to school, and helps to identify a recipe for success.</p>
Investing In A City's Rebirth
<p>With urban areas on the rise, investors are taking a closer look places like Detroit and Philadelphia, where depressed real estate values can equal opportunity for those with local knowledge.</p>
Can The U.S. Cut Its Energy Consumption?
<p>A Canadian economist says the U.S. is heading for a major collision between rising energy prices and its lifestyle of excess.</p>
The Suburbs Keep On Growing
<p>Even with increased awareness of global warning and more focus on urban living, the process of outward development continues in cities across America -- driven by homebuyers' continuing desire to own a piece of the American Dream.</p>
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Finding Planning Scholarship for Free: Articles with Open Access or Partly-Open Access
<style> <!-- ul li {margin-bottom: 10px;} --> </style> <p>Online versions of journals have made quick inroads at universities. However, subscriptions are expensive and those outside universities seldom have access. A new generation of open access journals is making planning research accessible beyond the campus. </p> <p>Some examples illustrate the range of material now available. Some are fully accessible and some are partially open to non-subscribers:</p>
Where The Affordable Housing Is...And Isn't
<p>California is home to the least affordable housing markets, while Michigan and Ohio are the places with the lowest home prices.</p>
Sydney To Dedicate Parking For Car Sharing
<p>Officials hope the new trial program will help increase the number of residents who join car sharing schemes.</p>
How To Quench Atlanta's Growing Thirst
<p>A severe water shortage is threatening Atlanta, and critics blame the region's unchecked growth as a primary cause for the its current predicament.</p>
'Green' Cities Are Great Cities
<p>A recent editorial argues that creating cities that consume less energy and emit less pollution will also help us create attractive and healthy places to live.</p>
Maryland Gives Home Buyers Cash To Live Near Work
<p>The state has launched a revamped home buyer assistance program that provide grants to employees who buy a home within 10 miles from their work.</p>
Getting Farms And Cities To Co-Exist
<p>Agricultural land around Boise, Idaho is facing increasing development pressure, but some farmers hope that a growing city can boost the demand for locally grown produce.</p>
Which Cities Are Set To Make A Comeback?
<p>History tells us that cities ebb and flow. This first of a three part series looks at a number of U.S. cities that have been in decline, and begins to explore which cities are poised to return to prosperity.</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.
