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Aggressive Economic Development
North and South Carolina are aggressively diversifying their economies to survive a devastating loss of the region's manufacturing base.
Reverse Brain Drain: U.S. Cities Losing Creative Class
Not only are U.S. cities no longer attracting the world's mobile intellectual talent, they are losing their creative class to foreign cities.
Libertarian Planning Principles Debate
Participants in an Internet email discussion list recently engaged in a heated debate on the impact of libertarian principles on urban planning in the United States.
Saving Main Street
Saving Main Street takes patience, but it's worth it say Neal Peirce.
Children's Health And Transportation
Evidence continues to grow that our transportation choices are affecting our health.
Revitalizing Toronto's Little India
Neighbourhood BIA Survives Suburban Flight and SARS Panic
Plater-Zyberk On Urban Miami's Future
Miami New Times interviews Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk on the future of urban Miami.
Should San Francisco Be As Dense As Calcutta?
Community groups are protesting higher densities called for in San Francisco's long-overdue Housing Element.
Free Smart Growth Policy Primer
A 120-page primer offers techniques for implementing ten smart growth principles.
Salt Lake City's State Of The City Shows Urban Leaning
Salt Lake City mayor seeks to increase city population, density near transit lines.
U.K. Consulting Firms Has 400 Openings
Consultant Atkins is looking to hire 400 professional staff such as engineers and architects for its UK businesses in 2004.
Are Trails And High Speed Rail Compatible?
Multiuse trails located adjacent to active rail lines, have become increasingly common in the United States.
Father Of Washington's Metro System Passes Away
Carlton Sickles, the man many have called 'the father of Washington's Metro system' died Saturday morning.
Economic Lessons For American Cities
Pennsylvania and California -- one old economy, one new economy. But both are seriously threatened by the dramatic changes taking place in the American economy.
National Survey Of Feelings
A quarterly survey objectively measures how Australian’s feel about a range of personal and national issues. Those results have been grouped to produce a ranking of capital cities.
Indicators A Planning Chief Is Not Working Out
Dayton, Ohio's regional planning organization reviews it's exective director, and gives a highly critical evaluation.
Preserve, Re-use Or Tear Down That Old Country Barn?
The Barn Saver, a business started by John High, salvages entire barns or their component parts for reconstruction on other sites or re-use in homes, furniture and crafts.
Small City, Big Vision
The Northeast Tennessee scenic corridor is a case study in "stick-to-itiveness" for planners.
Women In Construction
How one innovative economic development program is challenging stereotypes, and providing job training and housing rehab along the way.
Municipality of Princeton
Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission
City of Mt Shasta
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.
