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California's Lost Farmland: Yawn Or Crisis?
Urban growth in Northern California is growaing at an alarming pace, according to a study by the California Department of Conservation.
Delaware Creates Land Use Panel To Help Curb Sprawl
Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has signed a bill creating a panel that will search for ways to corral the state's growing population.
More Cities Not Hiring Smokers
If you're a smoker, you may find some cities may not hire you.
Massive O'Hare Airport Expansion Plan
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley presents his expansion plans for O'Hare International Airport. If adopted, they would double the airport's capacity.
Tech Companies Design Office Campus Of The Future
A new technology office complex in Silicon Valley will offer the ultimate in work environments. It's a throw-back to college.
Saving San Diego With Regional Planning
A Union Tribune editorial charges that San Diego's quality of life is under attack by unmitigated growth.
Governor Proposes Transit Plan For Atlanta
Gov. Roy Barnes is spreading more than $8 billion across traffic-congested areas to give most commuters something they haven't had before -- choices.
Denver To Convert Airport Into Parkland And Greenspace
Denver Mayor Wellington Webb unveiled a $44 million plan to transform runways at Stapleton Airport into 1,100 acres of open space.
Supreme Court Ruling Puts Different Spin On Takings
The U.S. Supreme Court gives property owners a new legal weapon to use to challenge zoning and environmental restrictions.
The Census Taker
This humorous online short movie from Atom Films is about a down-and-out census taker who decides to make falsify the census forms.
Utah's Sprawling Exurbs
Utah's high-income 'exurbs' are growing twice as fast as Utah's population.
Boston's Big Dig Takes Form
Boston's Big Dig is the largest and most complex highway project ever attempted in U.S. History. It's finally starting to take shape.
Is L.A.'s Cathedral A Yellow Armadillo?
Los Angeles is home to the first major cathedral to be built in North America in a century. But is the new cathedral ugly?
Touring A Wastewater Treatment Facility
An Atlantic Monthly writer tours a Boston-area A wastewater-treatment facility.
San Francisco Bay Vs. Airport
In this Chronicle editorial, Savethe Bay urges San Franciscansto take a stand against SFO's new runway development plans.
Can A City Be Too Successful?
National Public Radio explores whether cities are drowning in their own success and driving the poor out of revitalized urban areas?
How To Fix Amtrak? Split It In Two
This Business Week commentary argues for splitting Amtrak into two entities -- one public and one private.
Is The Chocolate City Turning Vanilla?
Commentators from The Washington Post and New Republic debate racism as part of Washington D.C.'s gentrification.
Denver: Writing On The Wall
The city of Denver erases an illegal advertisement.
The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit
A Brookings survey analyzes the spatial distribution of working poor families in 27 U.S. regions and finds that EITC is a significant antipoverty investment in cities.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
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.
