The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
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.
Planting Trees May Not Curb Global Warming
By questioning the widsom of forestation to curb global warming, a new study challeneges one of the core tenets of the Kyoto Protocol.
Walking And Cycling Lessons From Netherlands And Germany
What lessons can be learned from the Netherlands and Germany on promoting safe walking and cycling to improve public health?
Developer Fees On The Rise
Local cities and states see rising property values as a way to cut budget gaps by increasing developer fees.
The Town That Beat Wal-Mart
Preservation Magazine's cover story features the town that beat Wal-Mart -- the company that 'doesn't lose.'
CASA Latina: A Home For Seattle's Day Laborers
A non-profit organization, CASA (Centro de Ayuda Solidaria a los Amigos) Latina was developed around the daily gathering of Hispanic day laborers on Seattle's Western Ave. CASA aims to organize, galvanize, and protect the rights of Latino
World's Endangered Species Tops 12,000
The annual 'Red List' catalogues species threatened by extinction and the latest version includes more than 12,000 entries.
New York City School Construction Authority
Village of Glen Ellyn
Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
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.
