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How Cities Respond To Losing Population
This story highlights the other end of spectrum from the booomtown scenario for cities.
Using The Internet For Participatory Design
The Web is proving to be an oustanding platform for communication and participation around planning and design, writes Jonathan Cohen.
First Segway Theft Arrest
A New York City student may be the first person to be arrested for the theft of a Segway.
Rapid Suburban Growth Strains Schools And Cities
An analysis of Miami-area schools shows that growth on the suburban fringe is increasing economic school segregation across the entire region.
Smart Growth, Dumb Choice
Joel Schwartz and Wendell Cox argue that "Smart Growth" is a dumb choice unless you want higher housing prices and increased traffic congestion.
Rethinking State Water Management
An influential business group recommends major changes to Florida water laws.
Revisiting Love Canal
A neighborhood facing contamination-related health problems brings dejavu to Love Canal and the creation of the Federal Superfund law, and asks how far we have come in addressing environmental justice.
Does New York Need A New Robert Moses?
Can New York City could learn from Robert Moses' methods, or are the broker's worst tactics may already be at work?
Pre-Fabricated Quality
Despite conventional thought, prefab housing is a process more than an end-product.
Sex And The Suburb
Reason Magazine looks at one town's struggle to save mom-and-pop porn shops. Are legitimate adult uses a new strategy for community development?
Did The Monorail Kill The Avenue?
Seattle's Monorail did not Fifth Avenue - it is alive and flourishing?
Invasion Of The Exotics
Exotics -- nonnative plants and animals -- have found Florida's subtropical setting nearly perfect, and are flourishing quickly.
Housing Development Halted In Order To Move Forward
Without opposition from developers, the City of Delaware, OH has placed a 6 month moratorium on residential development.
Smart Growth For Clean Water
A new report by the National Association of Local Government EnvironmentalProfessionals includes a "Top 10" list of actions that local governments can take to promote smart growth for clean water.
Santa Barbara: A County Divided By Housing
California's pricey Santa Barbara county provides a case study of how the need for new housing need is facing NIMBYism from wealthier residents who don't want more growth.
FEATURE
Blackout Lesson: Keep the Gas Tank Full
The recent blackout highlights the vulnerability of dense cities, as unplugged urban rail systems and elevators left thousands of urbanites stranded.
Big Box Retail's Global Appeal
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea's largest Asian store opens in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
Saving University Of Arizona's Planning School
Planning School director Barbara Becker is fighting to save UA's planning program, which fuses environmental and urban planning.
Too Much Of A Good Thing
Maximizing choice for the individual can have a terribly negative impact on the whole.
Homelessness On The Rise
20% of the homeless live in the suburbs, 41% of the homeless are families with children--and other facts you should know about the changing face of homelessness.
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.
