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Smart Technologies Versus Heroic Choices
Can sustainable development be achieved via a technology-oriented or human behavior-oriented path? Or should we be seeking a more integrated solution?
A Natural Success In Downtown Detroit
An escape with a river view is a precious commodity in downtown Detroit.
Measuring The Effects Of 9/11 On New York City
The total attack-related cost to New York City through June 2002 was between $33 billion and $36 billion.
Students Experience New Urbanism Hands-On
Students learn about New Urbanism during a challenging charette.
City Seeks Approval To Allow More Downtown Housing
The City of Fort Lauderdale is asking State and County officials for approval to increase downtown housing.
Our Changing Lifestyles
Whether you are walking the streets of inner city Detroit or the new roads of Shanghai, it’s easy to see that global lifestyles are changing.
Terrorism And The Resilience Of Cities
The very forces that lead to city formation also lead cities to be highly resilient in the face of catastrophes such as terrorist attacks.
In Praise Of The Porch: Come Up And Sit A Spell
The world would be a better place if everyone had a porch, says author Michael Dolan.
Ft. Lauderdale Debates Future Visions For Beach
City of Fort Lauderdale has commissioned the Urban Land Institute to study the future of the beach.
Growing Demand For Highway Mansions
Home buyers are demanding mobility and convenience, so developers are building luxury subdivisions next to major highway interchanges.
Greensboro Revitalization Plan Wins APA Award
The project to revitalize Southside was honored by the American Planning Association.
Utah Embraces Commuter Rail
Utah's Transit Authority launches a five-year plan to build commuter rail between northern Utah and Salt Lake City.
NYC's Homeless System: Compassionate Or Irrational?
Since 1985, Justice Helen E. Freedman has presided over cases involving the city and advocates of the homeless.
City Admonished For Sprawl Tendencies
The California city of Vacaville is admonished to curb its sprawling ways; planners told to embrace smart growth.
It's The Water, Stupid
Residents give the Santa Fe County Commission Chair and full-time realtor an earful on the commission's bad habit of handing out thousands of master plan approved lots before having proof of water.
Cautionary Kitsch
New York's new Irish Hunger Memorial provides a cautionary tale for designers and planners downtown.
Californians Prefer Suburbia, Drive Alone, And Like Their Commute
A land use survey reports that Californians prefer to live in single-family detached houses, drive alone to work, and -- contrary to popular belief -- are pleased with their commute.
2002 Workplace 'Neighborhood' Architecture Winners
Business Week, the AIA and Architectural Record team up to award the 2002 'Winning Workplaces' -- office space organized into neighborhoods.
The SUV: A Weapon Of Mass Destruction?
A hard-hitting television campaign being developed takes aim at gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles and says that driving an SUV helps support terrorism.
A Good Day For Quality Of Life
Trend is strong for land preservation, managing growth.
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.
