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The Importance Of Artifact
Lessons learned from a memorial to another kind of terror.
Top Walking Cities
The American Podiatric Medical Association releases its list of the ten best cities for walking.
Suburban Life Not So Cheap After All
A new study finds that living in Toronto's suburbs may actually be more expensive than in the central city.
Schools As Centers Of Communities
Building new schools ought to serve as the foundation for community development, write David Abel and Jonathan Fielding.
Delayed Park Construction Worries Open Space Advocates
'Most of the nearly 300 acres of Boston's city parks that Big Dig officials promised to win support for the massive project are not finished and many are not scheduled to be done until after the roadway project is completed next year.'
CNN Looks At Lack Of Highway Funding
CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight features a segment on the lack of attention given to highway funding in the U.S.
Turbines Could Generate Cash For Public Schools
Several school districts invest in a new approach to raising funds.
A Housing Boom, Led By Boomers
As a generation shops for retirement homes, the US building industry thrives.
New Sustainable Housing Kits Are Also Affordable
With two-bedroom sustainable kit homes priced from AUD$63,000 (around USD$50,000) plus labour, they are becoming a real housing alternative.
California's Bureaucracy And A Park Restroom
An attempt to build a park restroom exemplifies the California's inane bureaucracy.
New Jersey Transit Village Initiative Evaluated
Transit village initiative is one tool in New Jersey's smart growth policy framework.
Here's the Design... Now What?
Dealing with the unsexy details of implementing the World Trade Center Memorial.
Integrated Policies Necessary For Sustainability
European research project underlines the importance of integrating land use and transportation policies.
Casinos As Entertainment District Anchors
An Indian tribe plans to use its land and casinos to anchor a mile-square entertainment district in Palm Springs.
Canadian Municipalities Want a New Deal
Canadian cities are lobbying for a new relationship with the federal government.
Community Housing Advocates Suffer A Blow
A New York court sides with two landlords to evict commnity organizers, and will be a shock to housing advocates.
Vandalism Ends Up Uniting A Community
The Kentlands community mobilized like never before to catch two teenage vandals terrorizing the community.
Car Ownership For $4 Per Hour
An innovative nonprofit car sharing program that rents cars for $2-$4 per hour is catching on.
What It Takes To Redevelop A City
Smart City Radio show host Carol Colletta talks with developers from Denver and Baltimore taking on tough in-fill projects in their cities.
Tension Over Granny Units
A new California law makes it much easier to legally convert a garage into a small rental.
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.
