The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
Affordable Housing: Six Serious Obstacles
Roger K. Lewis summarizes the most serious obstacles encountered when developing affordable housing.
Models For Harlem's Revitalization
Harlem has been heralded as the last great fontier of Manhattan real estate.
Skyscapers Won't Be As Tall Anymore
The height of planned skyscrapers has been scaled back following September 11.
Cohousing In Arizona
A Tuscon cohousing community opens -- a "community in balance with nature."
Rural Advocates Winning Sprawl Debate
Recent decisions in Seminole County, FL., favor rural advocates determined to protect rural areas from urban sprawl.
Creating Tampa's First Urban Neighborhood
24-year-old architect Marica McKeel will develop downtown Tampa's first urban neighborhood.
Macon-Atlanta Line Rail Plan Gains Support
Commuter rail is becoming a reality in Georgia.
Planning Can't Keep Up With Development
A Boston Globe editorial charges that new development and gentrification are outpacing planning efforts in Boston's Chinatown.
Tax-Sharing Bill Forces Regionalism Issue
A California tax-sharing bill forces the regionalism issue, but opposition holds firm.
Architects Developing Security Measures For New Buildings
Designers of new buildings are employing a variety of security measures to make structures more resistent to terrorist attacks.
Empty Big Boxes: Communities Rethink The Strip Mall
Retail closings can hurt communities. Some are looking at new uses for the empty "big-box."
EPA Chief's Growing Influence
EPA chief Christie Whitman, considered to be ineffective a year ago, is beginning to assert her influence with the Bush admninistration.
Who Drives The Most?
Robert Dunphy, ULI's transportation expert, comments on who drives the most and the least among large U.S. metropolitan regions.
Wal-Mart Wins At The Polls
For the third time in Arizona, Wal-Mart has won its zoning at the polls.
Reclaiming The Lake
Cleveland plans to open its lakefront to the public.
Commission Tries To Return Initiative Process To The People
David Broder analyses Robert Hertzberg's reform effort
Square Pegs In Round Holes
Planners in engineering firms? It's a better fit than you'd think.
Developing Over The Massachusetts Turnpike
Plan to build over a sunken Massachusetts Turnpike using air rights is turning out to be a challenge.
A Million Tons Of Sand
Miami Beach has found a new source of sand to replenish the city's northern shoreline.
A Second 'Loop' For Chicago?
The Chicago Transit Authority is planning a circular rail line to connect downtown and neighborhoods several miles away.
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.
