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Understanding Honolulu's Transit Data
Honolulu doesn't regularly analyze its traffic accident data for transit planning purposes, instead relying on complaints.
Does San Francisco Have Room For Industry?
With skyrocketing residential prices and continuing gentrification, are San Francisco's industrial areas (and their jobs) fated to disappear?
Don't Demonize New Urbanism
New Urbanists don't demand to eliminate suburbia -- only to be able to build walkable and mixed-use communities.
Treasure Valley Competition For Water
How you water your lawn will affect what you pay for scarce resource in Idaho's growing Treasure Valley Region.
Increasing Mobility Instead Of Reducing Congestion
Los Angeles is too dispersed for a rail system, and new roads are quickly filled with traffic. The best solution is not to reduce congestion, but to increase mobility.
Joel Kotkin On 5 Millennia Of Cities
Excerpt from a new book by a leading thinker about cities.
Unleashing Private Transit
If we are serious about solving transit problems, we should eliminate public transit franchises, argues James E. Moore.
A City Of Rules
Malaysia's newest city is a classic example of top down development.
Eclectic Books About Cities
A literary magazine offers reviews of an eclectic selection of recent books about cities.
Flying Cars And NASA's 'Highway In The Sky'
NASA's "Highway in the Sky" system will let millions fly using personal flying machines being developed by inventors.
Pave It Or Save It?
A new report examines the environmental, economic, and social impacts of sprawl in the East-of-Hudson New York City Watershed.
Best Place To Live Loses Most People
Charlottesville, VA, lost a larger percentage of its population over the last four years than any place else in the state.
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Size Matters
<img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files/20050416-ar-skyscrapers.gif" alt="skyscraper graf" align="right"/>The data's from the real-estate consultancy <a href="http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/sr/">Emporis</a>. Note that these numbers count <em>thousands</em> of 'scrapers. Hong Kong bristles with 'em!<br /> <br /> Says the <a href="http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3841144">Economist</a>:<br /> <blockquote>Hong Kong has 7,417 skyscrapers, more than any other city, according to Emporis, a firm that tracks the construction of high-rises. By its definition, a building must be over 35 metres tall to qualify as a skyscraper. New York ranks second with 5,444 skyscrapers; Los Angeles has just 450. Chicago's Sears Tower has more floors than any of its rivals, though other skyscrapers are taller.</blockquote>
California's Sacred And Mad Property Tax System
The process by which property taxes are paid in California is at the root of California's fiscal problems. But when it comes to touching the system, even Governor Schwarzenegger is a 'Girlie Man'.
Traffic Congestion And The 'Starbucks Effect'
Coffee stops may have a significant impact on air pollution, fuel economy, and traffic.
Public Transit Won't Work As Long As Parking Is Free
Even if Los Angeles builds a larger rail system, few will take it if parking is free, argues professor Donald C. Shoulp.
Michigan Groups Mobilize To Save Block Grants
Bush proposal threatens many local governments’ budgets
Is the CDBG Program America's Worst Urban Initiative?
Is the Bush administration right to put the community-development block grant out of its misery?
Montreal's New $5 Million Cycling Infrastructure Plan
Montreal announces a new $5-million program to create a major cycling artery.
Fixing LA's Traffic By Making It 'Cool' To Not Drive
William Fulton offers a roadmap for the city's new mayor to make it "cool to get around town without driving."
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.
