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Cargo Container Homes: Ultimate Mobility
Need to move? Simply load your cargo container home onto a ship. It's the 'perfect portable pad for global nomads'.
Measure Your Ecological Footprint
Use an interactive quiz to measure your "ecological footprint" (the amount of the earth's resources you use.)
Which Track Should We Get On?
A pair of op-ed essays in the Philadelphia Inquirer, while operating in slightly different spheres, put the rail vs. rubber contrast in good relief.
Bush's Fire Strategy Is 'Inflammatory'
New York Times editorial criticizes the Bush administration strategy to reduce the risk of wildfires.
The Fate Of Farming In Florida
In southern Miami-Dade County, the row crop industry is dying, and the chances for large-scale farms' survival have never been as slim.
Poverty Among Plenty: Connecticut's Urban Failure
Amisdt the nation's wealthiest state, Hartford struggles as one of its worst cities.
New Building, Thriving Downtown Give Racine Better Identity
Environmentally sensitive design is a heartening architectural trend.
School-area Roundabouts Pass The Test In Wisconsin
A study of two modern traffic roundabouts in the Green Bay metropolitan area is now available online from the Brown County Planning Commission.
Development vs. Sustainability is a False Choice
Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Denmark and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist," argues that serious environmentalists should put development ahead of sustainability if sustainability is ever to be an achievable
America's Trash
A "virtual rubbish bin" looks at what's in the trash generated by an average U.S. resident -- the highest in the world -- and shows where it goes.
A National Anti-sprawl Backlash?
As popular wisdom conceeds that smart growth controls increases housing prices, anti-sprawl efforts face a backlash.
Failing Company May Shirk $1 Billion Toxic Cleanup
Federal officials fret that taxpayers, not polluters, will incur the costs to remediate contaminated sites.
Detroit's 'Bookmobiles' Provide Literate Service
Detroit Public Library delivers books and technology to downtown neighborhoods.
600,000 Tunnel Tourists Turn Out In Boston
600,000 people showed up to tour Boston's new, nearly-complete, 1-1/2 mile-long Central Artery.
Charlie Rose Interviews Rem Koolhaus
Architects Rem Koolhaus, Renzo Piano and Santiago Calatrava on the Charlie Rose Show tonight.
Squabbling Counties Hope To Revamp Boundaries
Officials of two Oregonian counties seek to resolve ongoing taxation and revenue disputes by amending their jurisdictions.
A New Approach To Public Land Management
The U.S. Government is trying a new approach to management of public lands: Denying public access. And maybe that's a good thing.
Sacramento Takes On Snout Houses
Sacramento planners, aiming for "neighborly city streets" propose limiting houses with protruding garages.
The Tale Of Two Oakland Communities
The San Francisco Chronicle examines the challenges facing two communities in Oakland, CA as they try to improve.
Differences At The World Summit
Doubts emerge at the 10-day World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
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.
