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San Francisco's Dot-com Blight
San Francisco residents are protesting technology companies, which have shut out families, artists' groups and nonprofits from low-rent neighborhoods.
Businesses Frustrated With Relocation Effort
A year after San Jose approved a plan to build a City Hallcomplex downtown and help area business owners relocate, businesses are yet to find new places.
LA's Chinatown Becomes BID
Merchants and property owners vote 56-43 to create a Business Improvement Zone in Chinatown. Some are not happy with this decision.
Telco Hotels Worry Cities
Even as California cities rush to restrain the spread of "telco hotels," investors can't get enough of them.
Blitzkrieg Development
Orange County's most powerful builder plans to develop 7,000 acres of unincorporated east Orange with stripmalls and multifamily apartments, condos and houses.
NPS Sued Over Yosemite Management Plan
Environmental groups sue National Park Service over Merced River management plan.
El Toro Lease Still Up In Air
Negotiations with the Navy snag on potential environmental problems with base reuse.
Huge Developer Catellus Restructuring
Real estate: With a surge in major urban projects, the developer has the potential to boost its earnings, analysts say.
A Metro Aqua Line?
A Metro Aqua Line on the Westside? A civic group decided to promote transportation dialogue by posting 8 MTA-like signs showing westside stations.
Giant Santa a Historical Mistake?
Preservationists want to keep a 50-year old giant Santa in Santa Barbara, CA, while opponents say the statue is a "historical mistake."
Burbank Airport Compromise
A smaller terminal may be the middle ground in an ongoing dispute over the future of Burbank airport.
Court Denies Affluent City's Redevelopment District
California Supreme Court refuses to review alower court decision ordering the city of Diamond Bar to disband its redevelopment district, saying the affluent suburb failed to prove therewas any blight.
Boulder's Experiment With Transit
Residents in eight neighborhoods could be the first in the country to tax themselves for a seat on every commuter bus and train in a metro area.
Growth Halted In Sacramento's Final Frontier
Judge calls North Natomas plan illegal: Environmental concerns could halt development
A Chicagoan's View Of LA Subways
Chicago writer describes her experience on the LA Subway: "The honor system on a city subway? Isn't that a little like an honor system at an ATM?"
LA Sees Profit
This is how good the times are: Even the Los Angeles city government has managed to produce a surplus.
Humboldt's Environmental Deal
A forest deal is cutting heavily into Pacific Lumber's Business in Humboldt County.
FEATURE
Wanted: Fast Growing Technology Company
The booming success of e-commerce and the accompanying revenue it generates for the cities where it locates has made dot.coms the businesses to have in your community.
Sculptor Compensated For Destruction of Public Art Work
There's at least one incentive for property owners to maintain required public artwork.
Orange County Home Sales Cooling
Orange County's median home price drops after four record-breaking months.
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.
