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Univ. of Calgary's Community Bicycle Program
The University of Calgary’s Transportation Action Group uses abandoned bikes for a free campus-wide community bicycle program.
Suburban-Style Development Going Strong at 45
Philadelphia's Yorktown neighborhood, once an experiment in marketing to middle-class African Americans, continues to mean home to its residents as it nears the half-century mark.
Battling Density In Beerline
One of Milwaukee's most successful brownfield reclamation projects is now facing the questions of how much housing is too much, and how dense is too dense.
Rewarding Builders Who Build In The Right Places
New standards by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) reward developers who build in the right places.
Will $3 Gas Increase Transit Ridership?
Transit ridership has increased across the country with the rise in gas prices. If the price of gas falls, will transit ridership fall too?
Luxury Lofts Meet Skid Row
In the last of his five-part series, columnist Steve Lopez examines the jarring juxtaposition of rapidly-gentrifying luxury lofts that overlook prostitutes, drug dealers and homeless on LA's skid row.
Mixed Use Development Attracts Crowds Despite High Prices
How did Santana Row, a controversial San Jose development criticized for being "fake" and "Disneyland North," turn into a real neighborhood?
How Do You Create An Iconic Building?
CLR interviews architect and author Charles Jencks, about his new book, The Iconic Building.
Personal Rapid Transit For Heathrow Airport, Dubai Financial Center
Heathrow Airport and Dubai Financial Center are moving forward on robotic vehicle transit technology called personal rapid transit (PRT) with the aim of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Satellite Images Reveal Amazon Forest Shrinking Faster
New methods detect twice as much logging as previously estimated.
The China Syndrome: Booming Economy, Global Environmental Catastrophe
The impact of China's industrial growth on its own lands, waters and peoples has been recognized; now we are seeing its effects on the rest of the world.
Isle of Wait
Manhattan's West Side stadium is dead, Ground Zero is in shambles. It must be time to take on Governors Island.
The Man Who Planned Philadelphia By Force Of Will
William Fulton recalls the late Ed Bacon, Philadelphia's chief planner for more than two decades, as more than the cranky and quirky man he became in his later years.
APA's Executive Director On Rebuilding New Orleans
APA Executive Director Paul Farmer testifies at a joint congressional hearing about plans for rebuilding New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Buffalo Celebrates 50 Years of The Skyway...Or Maybe Not
The mile-long elevated highway, once hailed as a remarkable achievment is now seen by some as a barrier to development of Buffalo's waterfornt.
Why The Government Should Subsidize America's Commute To Work
Most Americans drive to work out of necessity. If the government wants to provide better transportation and economic opportunity, the government should offer tax credits to help reduce the cost of driving, and enable low-income to afford a reliable car, suggests writer Margy Waller.
A Testimony to a Car-Free Lifestyle
How to be mobile in Chicago without owning a car.
Is It Safe To Return To New Orleans?
Amid all the talk of rebuilding the city, the very real threat of toxic air is getting little attention.
Preserving The Real New Orleans
Rebuilding efforts in New Orleans should embrace "a complex reading of urban history" and not the "sentimental and historicist vision" of New Urbanism argues Nicolai Ouroussoff.
Is 'Green Building' Certification Broken?
Is the Green Building Council's popular and respected "green certification" program heavy on costs and paperwork, and low on actual results?
City of Clovis
City of Moorpark
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
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Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
