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Adding A Notch To The Belt
Eugene, Oregon's Urban Growth Boundary might be more flexible than you think.
The Spiderman Of Denver Planning
City planner Peter Park is making a name for himself and his profession.
Detroit is Losing the Race for Cleaner Cars
While it is hard to imagine the 20th Century without the automobile, it is equally hard to imagine the 21st Century with it - at least as is. A look at what the international automobile industry is doing to clean up their products.
Designing For Displacement?
How will a Tucson redevelopment project impact the city's public housing community?
Post-Tsunami Architecture
Architects are contributing time and skills to help rebuild the thousands of homes that were destroyed by the South Asian tsunami.
Designing Denver
City bigwigs review the most successful planning efforts in Denver history.
SUVs are 'Hypocrisy Incarnate'
Consumers are in "denial" about "land tanks" and continue to buy them in huge numbers in spite of the evidence that they are actually more dangerous to drive than standard cars.
Wal-Mart Targets Poor Communities
While Henry Ford chose to pay his workers enough to afford his cars, Wal Mart's market is in lower income shoppers and pays their workforce accordingly. How to keep growing? Create more poverty.
This Is A Sign
From muffler men to giant chickens, Indiana's landscape is full of gargantuan signage.
A Secret Community With Secret Crimes
Philadelphia's Mexican immigrant population isn't reporting rampant crime.
Austin: The Year In Review
2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.
Who Are The Best Urban Journalists?
Otis White offers his admittedly unscientific evaulation of the best urban journalists and newspapers in the U.S.
Looking For The Wright Price
Why won't anyone buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house?
'A Different Vision' In Iowa City
A developer's ideas take this college town's urbanism to new heights.
How Big Businessmen Saved The City
A review of the founding and development of the 50-year-old Greater Baltimore Committee.
The Perfect Historic Preservation Case Study
The debate over preserving L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel is a perfect case study in historic preservation in this 'equivocal city.'
Second Act For A Historic D.C. Neighborhood
Rennovated theater is the first of many new developments in Columbia Heights.
Ten City Design Commandments
Jeff Speck offers ten 'City Design Resolutions' for city mayors who want to build better places.
Call For Transit Oriented Development In Baltimore
MaryPIRG releases report connecting denser, mixed-use development to reduction of traffic congestion.
Judge Charges HUD With Fair Housing Violation
Agency blamed for not taking a regional approach to low-income housing creation in Baltimore area.
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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.