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Harvard Names Affordable Housing Leaders
Harvard University names 10 affordable housing leaders as 2001 Fannie Mae Foundation Fellows.
Testing The Limits Of The Western Dream
Can the Western states survive today's boom?
Architectural Standards For Retail Superstores
City may enact ordinance to apply architectural standards for large-scale retail facilities to make them more attractive.
A Regional Approach To Open Space
The county of San Mateo approved a plan to bring together its trails into a 450 mile regional open space network.
Fannie Mae's New E-Strategy
The Fannie Mae Foundation announced a new e-strategy and launches a redesigned website.
All-time Top Planning Books
Planetizen has published the definitive urban planning book list -- the titles that every planner should read.
Slowing Sprawl
Mequon, WI, learns the price tag for slowing sprawl as it puts together a task force to protect farmland and open space from development over the next 20 years.
Get Your Urban Sprawl Parking Ticket
Adbusters has created a fake but realistic parking ticket to put on vehicles that damage the environment.
Preservation Lands Being Threatened
Increasingly government agencies are looking at state held land, often enviromentally senstive, for new projects.
Urban Cool Eclipsed By Country Living
According to New York fashion, clothing styles now favor country living over gritty urban reality.
Irreverent Humor Of A Contrarian Planner
"Common Sense" is a collection of over 75 published essays on the politics of land use planning.
Planning For The End Of Sprawl
The New York Times reviews The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl, by Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton.
Carfree Cities?
For most Americans the idea of a car-free city is revolutionary. But is it possible?
Embarking On A Light Rail Project
The city of Charlotte is preparing to break ground on its first light rail line next month after years of study and planning.
Concrete Slab City
Deep in the Southern California desert, a temporary town blooms every winter.
High Speed Cars On Rails?
A new proposal in Florida would have users strap their cars to high speed rail platforms.
D.C.'s Metrorail Green Line Cars Delayed
Electronic problems cause delays in the delivery of new subway cars.
California: No Longer A Golden State?
California has failed to reinvest in itself. As a result, the energy crisis is only the tip of a looming iceberg.
Architectural Monuments: What Message?
What do architectural monuments say about their owners? Are they required to light fires in the human mind?
No. Virginia's New Transit Board
Fairfax County seeks more control of a newly-formed transportation board.
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.
