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The Impossible Burden Of The WTC Memorial
Memorials should be timeless: yet political pressures have dictated that we develop a memorial design two years after Sept. 11th's catastrophic morning. This is an invitation for aesthetic disaster.
Strips Malls As Apartments?
A city in California hopes to create new housing from aging strip malls.
Rhode Island Needs A New Affordable Housing Law
Rhode Island struggles with the right mix of incentives for affordable housing.
Parents Exercise Right To Drive
Fitness experts recommend that children add physical activity, such as walking, to their daily routines.
Affordable Housing With An Ocean View?
Do people who purchased ocean-front condos in a low-income-housing program deserve to make a profit?
Population Growth Doesn't Ensure A City's Properity
"Even in an Internet age, place matters" says Neal Peirce.
Green Architecture: Trend Or Hype?
Is 'green architecture' a new trend, or just environmental hype?
Quick And Cheap Solutions To Traffic Problems: Part 2
The second installment of a three-part series on quick, relatively modest ways to relieve traffic congestion.
Why Is Infill Development So Hard?
Infill and redevelopment projects are not easy or popular. Greenfieldprojects are unpopular, but easy.
Baltimore's Biotech Bid
A low-income neighborhood near Baltimore's John Hopkins University will be demolished in a move to create an office park to lure biotechnology firms.
New Deal For Canadian Cities Appears Imminent
Senior governments consider providing new sources of sustained funding for public transit and affordable housing
How The Search For Oil Can Wreak Havoc
Texaco faces a multibillion dollar lawsuit for spilling 1-1/2 times more oil in Ecaudor than the oil tanker Exxon Valdez.
Wind Farm Opponents: NIMBY Or BANANA?
Are debates about wind farms showing the schism in the green movement?
The Other Side Of Smart Growth
A Wall Street Journal editorial comes down hard on smart growth, comparing it to Jim Crow and segregation laws.
Powerful Wal-mart
Neal Peirce discusses the impact of Wal-mart's business practices.
Quick And Cheap Solutions To Traffic Problems: Part 1
The first installment of a three-part series on quick, relatively modest ways to relieve traffic congestion.
Fighting Homelessness: Santa Barbara's Plan
One theory suggests that the nicer a city is to the homeless, the more they attract -- and Santa Barbara has a downright unwelcoming reputation.
Fighting Homelessness: Chicago's Plan
Other cities adopt model of stressing housing over shelters.
Subdivision Regulations: Practices & Attitudes
The Lincoln Institute publishes the results of a survey of public officials and developers in the nation's fastest growing single family housing markets.
Historic Hotel For Sale: What Is The Best Use?
Built in 1925, the Winthrop Hotel was the place to stay when visiting Tacoma - then hard times fell in 1972 and the building was converted over to low-income (Section 8) housing.
Smith Gee Studio
City of Charlotte
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
US High Speed Rail Association
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
Municipality of Princeton (NJ)
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
