The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
The Perfect Small Town?
West Chester, Pennsylvania is the model of a walkable, new urbanist community with a classic main street.
Low Densities Are No Answer To Terrorism
The sprawling 1950's postwar urban pattern has made us extremely vulnerable in an age of international terrorism.
Urban Planning: Concentrate And Defend
Former senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan outlines his plan for revitalizing New York at the 2001 ULI conference.
The Safer Skyscraper
A UC Berkeley professor outlines an engineering vision for the ultimate safe skyscraper. But at what aesthetic cost?
The End Of The Skyscraper Era?
Neal Peirce comments on the prediction that the Sept. 11th attack signals the end of the skyscraper era and discusses how planning errors of the past can be avoided
Measuring A Building's Environmental Friendliness
U.S. Green Building Council has developed a rating system for evaluating the sustainabilty and environmental friendliness of buildings.
Milwaukee's Ranks Eighth In Population Density
Milwaukee, WI, ranked eighth in a survey of population density of nation's metro areas.
Builders Seek To Ease Growth Limits
Builders in Prince George's County are trying to ease growth limits connected to crowded schools.
Co-housing Works In Seattle
Combining group ownership and independent living can be tricky. Seattle has several successes.
America's Main Street
Moynihan's Trojan-horse proposal for Pennsylvania Avenue went far beyond recommendations for new office space.
How To Get Great Streets
Great Streets. You want them, but to get them you have to be able to negotiate with your state department of transportation.
Sprawl Vs. Transit In Maine
Portland, Maine's long-range tranit plan has reached in impasse -- how to deal with sprawl.
California's Protected Urban Areas
Some organizations in California are successfully protecting urban open space areas in the face of rapid growth and sprawl.
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Low Densities Are No Answer To The Threat Of Terrorism
The sprawling 1950's postwar urban pattern, once believed to provide a measure of security in the atomic age, has made us extremely vulnerable in an age of international terrorism.
Will Terrorism Trigger An Urban Decline?
Clarence Page points out that suburbs grew during the Cold War under the threat of nuclear war. He wonders if the threat of terrorism could cause an urban decline.
Carfree Times
The November, 2001 issue of Carfree Times includes a feature article on one of the few car-free communities in the U.S.
Many Firms Leaving Downtown NY For Midtown
The majority of displaced firms in lower Manhattan are moving to midtown NY. But will they return?
Houston's Top Issue: Traffic
Houston residents says that transit mobility is the top issue in the upcoming mayoral election.
Time To Privatize Amtrak?
The return of Amtrak service between Maine and Boston is planned amid calls to privatize Amtrak.
Market Forces Can Help The Environment
The impossibly-lofy "command and control" approach to environmentalism will never work. But the market can help.
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.
