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Development Pressure On Home Of Bald Eagles
Petty Island, home to bald eagle,s is under pressure to develop.
When Does Historic Demolition Serve Preservation?
Increasingly, historic perservationists are using revitalization as a tool to save cities’ treasured buildings in historic cores.
New EPA Chief Confirmed
The U.S. Senate confirms agency veteran Stephen Johnson to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A 12-Step Program For Car Junkies
Livable Places publishes a guide for 'car junkies' on how to give up driving in Los Angeles.
The Scooter Takes On New York
Long popular in European cities, the scooter has recently made inroads in New York City.
West Bank-Gaza Strip High Speed Rail Line Proposed
The Rand Corporation, a California-based think tank, proposes high speed rail between Gaza and the West Bank, with possible links to Tel Aviv, Cairo, Beirut, and Aqaba.
Coastal Maine Village Eyes Brownfield Redevelopment
Town ready for a big change after gradually losing the property tax revenues that the Maine Yankee nuclear power plan had generated for so many years.
The Beltway Gets HOT
A deal has been struck for a private company to build HOT lanes on the Virginia side of the Capital Beltway, at no cost to the state.
Portable Paper Buildings
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban built a portable museum out of shipping containers and paper tubes.
Urban Planning Students Create Plans For 'Cool Cities'
Plans are submitted in national Planning and Design contest.
Housing First
Some advocates believe that providing the homeless with their own housing -– and not just relegating them to shelters -– is the only way to succeed.
Network Organizing: A Strategy For Building Community Engagement
In weak market cities where cynicism and dysfunction have become the norm, it takes a different kind of organizing to bring people together to demand change.
A Tree Grows In Northern Liberties
A community garden and park on a former brownfield has enriched a neighborhood.
SAT Scores And Home Value: An Internet Match
More school district scores are available on line, and families with means are using it to decide where to live.
Las Vegas Glitz Dulled By Growing Pains
As the city opens the world's most expensive casino, residents worry about lack of housing, bad traffic, smog, and crime.
Canadian Housing Bubble Risk Exaggerated, Report Says
While there are legitimate concerns about housing markets in the US, Britain and Australia, Canada's housing market is on a "solid foundation."
Brooklyn's Identity Crisis
The borough, which 'once epitomized working class America,' faces intense gentrification.
Congress Passes 'Deeply Flawed' Energy Bill
"Industry-friendly" bill subsidizes fossil fuel production, leaves communities liable for clean-up of groundwater contamination caused by fuel additives.
Teetering Canadian Government Boosts Cities
In a controversial bid to shore up his scandal-plagued Liberal Party, Prime Minister Paul Martin has agreed to meet the demands of the left-leaning NDP party and re-write the government's budget to invest in social housing and environmental protection.
San Luis Obispo Voters' Commitment To Downtown
San Luis Obispo voters appear to have rejected highly controversial big-box development by slim margin.
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.
