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California's Eroding Rural Areas
Across California, once-prized agriculture areas are being squeezed by rapidly growing populations and development. What can be done?
The Cost Of North America's Success
U.S. and Canada have had success at improving local environments -- but at what cost?
The Next Stage In Suburbia: Downtowns
Suburban downtowns are taking cues from urban traditions to create vibrant and complex downtowns, writes John King.
Lower Manhattan Rebuilding Plans Expanded
Official say plans to rebuild the site of the World Trade Center have been expanded to all of downtown.
Security Concerns Push Firms To Suburbs
This is the last in a series of occasional articles on security, buildings, and cities after 9/11 by Boston Globe urban planning writer Anthony Flint.
Do Architecture Competitions Work?
Witold Rybczynski writes in The Atlantic Monthly that public architecture competitions don't always produce the best buildings.
New Skyscraper Limits Could Curb Futuristic Skyline
Shanghai, the city with one of the world's most futuristic skylines, is considering limits on new skyscrapers.
A Long-Range View Of Downtown
Redeveloping Lower Manhattan requires a different kind of social vision.
Re-engineering A Cultural Icon
Redesigned to be environmetally friendly, the new Vespa is also more powerful.
NY's Proposed Building Code Changes
Proposed changes must walk a fine line between economic reality and protectiveness.
A Competitive Vision For Cities
What makes a city competitive? The people of Louisville and Jefferson County are asking that question as they prepare for the nation's largest consolidation in more than 20 years.
Clash Over Demand For Power
Despite opposition by lawmakers and environmental groups, power officials asked federal regulators to activate a new transmission line running under Long Island Sound.
Gridlock In Toronto? Never.
A report by a Smart Growth Panel on gridlock in suburban Toronto leaves this columnist questioning the meaning of gridlock.
Mansionization Restrictions Emerge
A Planning Commission in Orange County, CA, approves new mansionization restrictions on homeowners building massive homes.
WTC Proposals Flood In To CNN
CNN has received over 900 designs for the WTC site from its viewers.
The Earthship Has Landed
The U.K. is the first country in Europe to grant full planning approval for Earthship dwellings.
Friday Funny: Stoner Architect Drafts All-Foyer Mansion
The stunning design for an all-foyer mansion attracts national attention, but the work of stoner architects is tragically underfunded.
Reservoir Could Become Valuable Green Space
A decommissioned could provide a valuable for dense neighborhood.
Goodbye To Cornell Architecture-Planning School?
Cornell considers dismantle the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
Lead Contamination At Gun Clubs
Environmentalists and anti-gun activists are concerned about lead contamination at shooting ranges.
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.
