The Daily Source of Urban Planning News
Microfinance at a Crossroads
<p>The business of making loans to poor people in underdeveloped countries is entering a critical period of development. Foundations and other non-governmental groups have shown the private sector that money can be made by lending to these populations.</p>
Americans In The City Of Light
<p>Americans are buying second homes in Paris.</p>
Historic Preservation Moves to the Suburbs
<p>As post-war development reaches 50 years of age, preservationists and local officials in Arlington, Texas, grapple with the question of what to preserve.</p>
Giving Real Estate Development The Old College Try
<p>A trio of young but idealistic Oberlin College students are developing a new mixed use project on a vacant downtown lot.</p>
Detroit Wants Walkable Urbanity
<p>Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey interviews real estate guru Chris Leinberger on developing walkable urbanity in Detroit.</p>
Race, Poverty, And Uneven Development
<p>Policies and initiatives based on class and race are essential in altering the unequal patterns of opportunity in cities and suburbs.</p>
Putting The Humanity Back Into Habitats
<p>Grants, contributions, a collaboration with the Institute for Classical Architecture & Classical America, open minds, and tight budgets are helping Habitat for Humanity raise its design standards.</p>
Decaying Mansions May Fall To Supermarket
<p>Abandoned military mansions in Brooklyn are on the verge of being razed and replaced with a supermarket. Many historic preservationists are opposing the assertion that the late 19th Century mansions can't be salvaged.</p>
Housing Designed To Last From 'Cradle-To-Cradle'
<p>An international design competition based in Virginia has yielded the first 'cradle-to-cradle' housing, made of sustainable materials able to be used and reused with no loss of quality and limited environmental impact.</p>
Developer Plans To Sue City Over Eminent Domain
<p>Builders of a proposed multi-billion dollar redevelopment project in Riviera Beach, Florida are considering legal action against the state and city after being told that eminent domain will not be used to acquire properties for the project.</p>
Wal-Mart's Expansion Into China
<p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to buy a massive Chinese "hypermarket" for close to $1 billion, making Wal-Mart the largest food and department store network in China.</p>
A Dark Day For Affordable Housing
<p>For decades Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village has provided some of the most affordable housing in Manhattan. However, the completion of a $5.4 billion dollar real estate deal, the largest in American history, has residents worried about the future.</p>
Defining And Finding Exurbia
<p>A new study from the Brookings Institute attempts to locate and describe the exurbs of large metropolitan areas in the United States.</p>
Saving Asia's Past
<p>As Asia ascends, we can learn a lot from how they preserve their past and celebrate the historic urban form.</p>
Philadelphia Launches Riverfront Planning Process
<p>The city's mayor invites the University of Pennsylvania to work with City Planning Commission to facilitate public planning process for the Delaware River waterfront.</p>
Grid Locked
<p>Promised federal investments to upgrade America's electricity grid in the wake of the 2003 blackout have never materialized. As a result, the U.S. power grid "hangs by a thread."</p>
Reston Rests a Little Too Easily
<p>Philip Langdon recalls mixed-feelings about Reston's unfinished dream.</p>
Bicycling In Denmark
<p>Aaron Naparstek of Streetsblog visits Copenhagen and reports on that city's outstanding bicycling facilities.</p>
TOD Banks On Offices, Not Housing
<p>Developers for a new 35-acre mixed use TOD at the end of Denver's new light rail line are hoping to succeed with more office space than is typically used.</p>
Sold: 80 Acres for $5.4 Billion
<p>In the largest real estate deal in history, a joint venture between Tishman Speyer and BlackRock Inc.'s real-estate arm secured Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, two large apartment communities on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, for $5.4 billion.</p>
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)
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