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Financing Transportation Infrastructure
Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies at the Reason Public Policy Institute, addresses the need for California to look at alternative financing vehicles for transportation projects.
Aspen's New Economic Engine: Second Homes
The greatest economic engine in Pitkin County is now second homes, dwarfing tourism.
Does Big Box Equal Low Wages?
Big box warehouse club Costco delivers benefits to both its consumers and its employees
The Renaissance And Evolution Of Desert Modern Housing
New housing developments in the Palm Springs desert capitalize on Modernist styles popularized in the 1950s, while adding newer sustainable touches.
Earthquakes: Facts, Fiction, And TV Fantasy
NBC movie depicts California falling into the ocean after a 10.5 earthquake. The U.S. Geological Service separates fact from fiction contained in this Hollywood fantasy.
Will A New Mall Arise In China?
An American designer wants to create humanistic spaces amidst China's frenzied mall-building boom.
Sprawl Hurts Persons With Disabilities
Urban sprawl negatively impacts the lives of persons with disabilities.
Environmental Challenges Facing Schwarzenegger
Former Calfiornia Resources Secretary Mary Nichols opines on her legacy and the environmental challenges facing the Schwarzenegger administration.
Gavin Newsom's controversial 'Care Not Cash' program begins.
San Francisco to offer housing and counseling instead of cash to its 2,500 homeless people.
Congestion Charging 'Inevitable' In Scotland
Edinburgh may be the first Scottish city to try congestion pricing, but others will surely follow.
The Challenges of Place Branding
Unlike products, places can’t just be "discontinued, modified, withdrawn from the market, re-launched and re-positioned or replaced by improved products".
Critics Charge ALA's Most Polluted Cities Data Is Dirty
The American Enterprise Institute questions the American Lung Association's recent State of the Air 2004 report, which identified the most polluted cities in the U.S.
Growing Differently: An Alternative To Sprawl
Sacramento's most influential leaders want the city to grow without sprawling.
Atlanta's Alley Renaissance
Retro alleys are the new hot trend in metro Atlanta. Especially if you call them 'mews'.
Density And The Downtown
An interview with Doug Kelbaugh, dean of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Can Pedestrian-friendly Planning Encourage Walking?
Does changing the built environment by making it more 'walkable' prompt people to change their travel habits?
Cars Losing Out To Phones As Status Objects
The use of autos as status objects is losing ground to a more environmentally and socially benign item -- phones.
Cleveland Gambles On $200m Transit Project
Cleveland hopes to generate jobs, spark residential, retail and other development, generating jobs and revive it's shrinking tax base with the Euclid Corridor project.
Beijing: Where Were You 'Trapped' Today?
Despite a new law to make traffic better, Beijing's traffic is so bad, city leaders are considering changing the layout of the entire urban city.
Innovative New 'Workforce Housing' Fund Launched
An innovative new private equity fund s dedicated to building homes in Los Angeles's inner city.
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.
