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MegaMoMA Is Fail-safe And Risk-free
Ada Louise Huxtable reviews the new Museum of Modern Art -- "the right building for New York."
Airports Equal Accessibility
Region's busiest airport has become a destination for businesses and travelers alike.
Mexican Town Fights Mine Giant
A Canadian company wants to begin extracting gold and silver from a mountain in Cerro de San Pedro.
Is Faux History Still History?
Philadelphians debate whether an imitation colonial-style building from the 1960s should be preserved for its historic significance.
Affordable Housing Is Good Business
The first affordable housing project to combine special green building funding with federal low-income housing tax credits breaks ground in Seattle.
Are There Alternatives For Moderate-Income Housing?
Howard County, Maryland suggests land donation from developers as a possibility to achieve the county’s goal for moderate-income housing development.
Why Live In A State Of Fear?
From world overpopulation to global warming, writer Michael Crichton asks whether it is time for 'some healthy skepticism?'
Micropolitan Areas: The Space In Between
The US Census Bureau now has a category for semi-rural areas.
Virginia Judge Strikes Down Inclusionary Housing Guidelines
Allegedly voluntary program deemed an actual requirement; developers had protested.
Surge In Growth Expected By 2030
Rapid population growth with result in unprecendented residential and commercial development in the next twenty-five years.
End of Housing Bubble?
The new year could well bring the "last blowout of the credit card era", and with it a "fire sale" of U.S. real etate, predicts James Howard Kunstler.
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Neither City Mouse nor Country Mouse
Hey, look, it's another way to look at city/non-city living! It's from the <em>New York Times Magazine's</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12MICROPOLIS.html?oref=login">Year in Ideas</a> issue (reg. req'd). Here it is: your moment of geographic zen.<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.planetizen.com/tech/files//12micr.650.jpg" alt="Micropolises" /> <br /> <br /> What does it say about you if you live in a dark green region? Um...that you shop at WalMart? That you have satellite TV? That you're more likely to drive a truck?<br /> <br /> I've read the <em>Times</em> article and I still don't really get it.
A Chance To Rebuild America
A major surge in development is projected for the next few decades offering an opportunity to change the landscape of the nation.
It Takes A Transit Village
A new report seeks to demonstrate how better planning can save California's Bay Area billions of dollars and ease the housing shortage.
Empty Nesters Moving Back To The City
Baby boomers who moved out of cities when they had kids, are now moving back.
In Cities, Internet Unplugged
Many cites want to provide wireless Internet. But they're up against tough competition that will try to stop them.
A New Generation Of Homeless Vets?
Veterans of the Iraq war have begun showing up in the nation's homeless centers. Advocates are worried that it is just the beginning.
ZipCar's Car-Sharing Success
ZipCar has become a way of life for 3.5% of residents in it's hometown of Cambridge, MA.
Suburban DC Embraces Pedestrian Urbanism
Some fear plan for high-density areas will uproot county's suburban qualities.
What Happens When You Build Without Permits?
A Chesapeake Bay homeowner on a small wooded island builds a 3,500-square-foot house without permits.
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City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Montrose County
Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA)
The Pocatello Development Authority
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.