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Ghost Malls
Just because a mall is dead doesn't mean it's gone.
Wal-Mart vs. Nothing?
As living wage activists and big box developers, like Wal-Mart, clash in economically depressed urban areas like Hartford, many hope that city officials will do the right thing.
Older Suburbs: Distress Or Rebirth
Older suburbs in the Philadelphia region, places such as Norristown, Conshohoken and Pottstown are profiled.
Silverstein's WTC Insurance Strategy
Peter Slatin previews Larry Silverstein's fiery strategy to secure a $6.5 billion insurance payoff for the WTC site.
Development Takes Live/Work To The Next Level
An Orange County developer is successfully marketing dwelling units that owners can legally use to receive customers and hire employees in a suburban residential setting.
Pennsylvania's Crisis: A Ring of Decline
The Philadelphia Inquirer examines why a high percentage of older suburban towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are on the edge of failing.
State Architect Effectively Advocates For Sustainable Design
California State Architect Stephen Castellanos discusses how the built environment affects students and neighborhoods.
Rouse Will Not Tolerate Rabble-Rousers
The developer bans a street performer on its property for making an offensive comment.
Using GIS To Track Hunger
The Syracuse Hunger Project is an effort to produce maps that identify city neighborhoods with the greatest needs and their geographic relationship available resources.
Why Don't Planners And Health Officials Work Together?
Planners and public health officials ought to work together to design walkable neighborhoods.
How The Bush Administration Is Plundering America's Commons
Adam Werbach strips away the Bush administration's rhetoric to expose the "wholesale giveaway" of the nation's natural riches to large corporations.
Special Series: 'The Wal-Mart Effect'
The Los Angeles Times begins a three-part, hard-hitting look at the devastating effects of Wal-Mart's quest for the ultimate low price.
Michigan's Business Strategy Based On Smart Growth
State's economic pain sows seeds of prosperity.
Art Review: Edwin Hopper And Urban Realism
A new exhibit explores impressionist-inspired takes on "the new modern urban reality."
Poorest Of Poor Forced To Volunteer
Public housing residents are being forced to do community service -– but what makes them different from other recipients of federal subsidies?
History's Biggest Wildfire Recovery Effort
Projects in California range from relocating endangered frogs to mulching hillsides by helicopter.
Homeowner Guilt
An Australian columnist discusses the unfair disparities in home values Down Under.
Bangkok: Canal Network Poses Serious Health Risks
The impending death of a high profile resident foregrounds the dangers of klongs, canals that function both as sewers and as transportation in Bangkok.
A Not-So-Loopy Idea
Atlanta's new railway loop proposal may yet survive the usual onslaught of bureaucracy and red tape.
Why Johnny Can't Walk to School
In a Chicago Tribune Op-Ed, the director of a recycling program at the University of Illinois at Chicago ponders the disappearance of walking to school in urban and suburban areas alike.
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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.
