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Salt Lake City's 'Anti-Strip Mall' Ordinance
A Salt Lake City ordinance is designed to bring pedestrians back to the city's streets.
Experts Urge Inclusionary Zoning To Ensure Affordable Housing For NYC
Should New York use both mandatory and voluntary inclusionary zoning toguarantee affordable housing?
An Urban Real Estate Cartel For Affordable Housing
To succeed in 2008, Democrats must establish a disciplined, national, urban real estate cartel.
The Wrong Kind Of TOD
Wendell Cox publishes an image of precisely the kind of transit-oriented development planners don't want.
The Effects Of Parking Requirements On Urban Density
Off-street parking requirements explain much of the difference in the density of major urban cities.
Yet Another Plan For Les Halles In Paris
The Mayor of Paris chooses a cautious new vision for the redevelopment of the old market district.
The Relationship Between Energy And Poverty
Energy plays an critical role in in reducing poverty and fuelling economic growth.
360-degree Architectural 'Revolution'
Each 300,000-dollar apartment occupying an entire floor in this unusual 11-storey apartment bulding can turn independently offering 360-degree views.
'Green' Holiday Gifts
From wearable solar radios to clothes made of organic cotton, 'green' gifts are becoming popular.
Too Hip For The Room
10 Chicago architects share their visions for Chicago's future.
Hyperurbanism?
When urbocentrism is combined with technological and economic power, it takes on the character of an unstoppable force.
Changing The Culture Of 'No.'
How traditional planning bureaucracies can reinvent themselves into customer service driven agencies that embrace continuous improvement.
Declaring War To Become A City
Must a suburb 'declare war' to evolve into a city? San Jose, CA, fights back after losing a fast-growing corporation.
Cleveland CDC Abandons Role As Developer Of Last Resort
Is Ohio City Cleveland's first neighborhood to turn the corner, or just to turn its back on affordable housing?
Denver's Turnaround City
How did "Colorado's most reluctant city" become metro Denver's most progressive center of smart planning and urban design?
New Beginnings And An End
Subway expansion is the first beyond the system's original boundaries.
How Birthrates Impact Demographics
An obscure demographic factor -- birthrates -- is strongly correlated with partisan splits in both the 2000 and 2004 elections.
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Psychogeographical Markup Language
This time I didn't make it up. From the strange, inventive, and apparently European Web site socialfiction.org comes <a href="http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/PML.html">Psychogeographical Markup Language</a>, a way to tag urban environments with metadata that's not cartographic but emotional. They say, "PML incorporates work done in fields like annotated space, geo-tagging, mental mapping, GIS & collaborative mapping but is different in that it aims at the invisible & the absurd."<br /> <br /> As socialfiction's <a href="http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography/psychogeogram.html">explanation</a>
University Makes Downtown Commitment
New Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor commits to major investment plan in the Rust Belt City's center.
Building Materials Of The Future
Urban Land asks eight architectural firms to discuss building materials and technologies the industry can expect to see more of in the future.
Heyer Gruel & Associates PA
JM Goldson LLC
Custer County Colorado
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Claremont
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
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Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
