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Ontario Announces Significant Planning Reforms
New legislation is intended to avoid repeat of moraine housing fiasco.
Pakistan: Housing at Its Worst
Some consider the housing conditions and backlog in Pakistan to be the worst in the world.
Wal-Mart Effect Series: Part 3
In the third part in it's hard-hitting series, the Los Angeles Times focuses on the zoning laws local communities are considering to limit supercenters and stores like them.
Too Many Over-55s At The Beach?
Concerns about the local costs of over-55s moving to Australian beachside locations.
Boston's Three-Deckers: The Beauty And The Blight
An examination of three-decker, or triple-decker housing, which is common in urban neighborhoods throughout New England.
Aalto's MIT Masterpiece
While the restoration of Baker House has some purists fuming the classic dorm has never looked better.
Revitalizing An Industrial Neighborhood
The West Chelsea and meatpacking district areas are rapidly being transformed into one of the most hip, lively areas of the city.
Structural Insulated Panels Promise Affordability, Energy-Efficiency
Structural insulated panels are being considered by many in the Inland Empire of Southern California as an energy-efficient, affordable housing design solution.
Nader: Energy Bill Shows Contempt For The American People
The legislation (H.R. 6) is 1700 pages of giveaways and contempt for the American people -- their health, safety and pocketbooks says Ralph Nader.
Planning for Disasters
What planners can learn from engineers who study buildings in order 'to keep disasters from becoming economic catastrophes.'
Ghost Malls
Just because a mall is dead doesn't mean it's gone.
Wal-Mart vs. Nothing?
As living wage activists and big box developers, like Wal-Mart, clash in economically depressed urban areas like Hartford, many hope that city officials will do the right thing.
Older Suburbs: Distress Or Rebirth
Older suburbs in the Philadelphia region, places such as Norristown, Conshohoken and Pottstown are profiled.
Silverstein's WTC Insurance Strategy
Peter Slatin previews Larry Silverstein's fiery strategy to secure a $6.5 billion insurance payoff for the WTC site.
Development Takes Live/Work To The Next Level
An Orange County developer is successfully marketing dwelling units that owners can legally use to receive customers and hire employees in a suburban residential setting.
Pennsylvania's Crisis: A Ring of Decline
The Philadelphia Inquirer examines why a high percentage of older suburban towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are on the edge of failing.
State Architect Effectively Advocates For Sustainable Design
California State Architect Stephen Castellanos discusses how the built environment affects students and neighborhoods.
Rouse Will Not Tolerate Rabble-Rousers
The developer bans a street performer on its property for making an offensive comment.
Using GIS To Track Hunger
The Syracuse Hunger Project is an effort to produce maps that identify city neighborhoods with the greatest needs and their geographic relationship available resources.
Why Don't Planners And Health Officials Work Together?
Planners and public health officials ought to work together to design walkable neighborhoods.
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