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Getting Green Out Of Brownfields
California's Bay Area has been successful in returning brownfields to productive use.
The New Senior Subdivision Trend
Nationwide, developers are beginning to target baby boomers with custom developments and ammenities.
Report: How Sprawl Worsens Drought
The water crisis faced by many drought-hit cities is made worse by sprawl. (Complete report).
Home Owners/Developers Overturn School Facilities Fee Assessment
An interview discussing the recent Superior Court decision claiming that LAUSD failed to meet lawful requirements in applying Alternative School Facilities Fees.
Out With The New, In With The Old
Traditionalist developers to meet, discuss 'new urbanism' and livable communities.
Race And The Post-war Suburb
A forthcoming book looks at the role of race in the development of post-war, suburban neighborhoods.
California Abandons Growth Legislation
California's legislative attempt to focus growth through legislation is abandoned.
Land Use Decisions: Ground Zero And Sprawlmart
Jane Holtz Kay, author of "Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back" comments on land use decisions facing the nation from "Ground Zero" to rural sprawl.
Cities With Most Water Loss Due To Sprawl
Sprawl is making the nation's drought more painful by impairing the landscape's ability to recharge aquifers. Which cities are the worst?
New Study Outlines 'Best Practices' For Smart Growth
The timing of a newly released report arguing that active state leadership can strengthen a community's ability to shape its own destiny is spot on.
Sprawl Worsens Water Crisis In Drought-Hit Cities
Sprawl development is making the nation's drought even more painful by impairing the landscape's ability to recharge aquifers and surface waters, according to a new report released today.
Can The Traffic Problem Be Solved?
Will the world end with a traffic jam?
Wisconsin Town Becomes Front Line Of Explosive Growth
How will the bucolic college town of River Falls, 30 miles from downtown St. Paul, handle it's new position in the path of massive growth?
Washington County Prosecutes Rail-to-Trail User
Case in Klickitat County highlights disputes between trail users and state versus local property owners
Infrastructure Fee Shortfall Plagues Modesto's Village
An infrastructure fee shortfall for an 1,840-acre project in a Central California Valley city could reach into the tens of millions of dollars.
More Driving Solo, Longer To Go To Work
In the county with the shortest commute in Illinois, alternate means of commuting such as biking, walking, and mass transit, are less popular than a decade ago.
Trading Off Housing For 'Big-Box' Development
A former city manager and current real estate developer discusses the development trade-offs California cities face stemming from Prop. 13.
Temperature Rises In Tokyo Blamed On Development
Tokyo temperatures are rising to uncomfortable levels due to increased development.
Businesses Want Rail Station Downtown
Grayslake Village won't change plans to build a Metra station a mile north of downtown but businesses fight to change the site.
Increase In Mass Transit Ridership Is An Illusion
The nation is building urban rail systems but mass transit has not made much difference.
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.
