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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.
How The Bush Administration Is Plundering America's Commons
Adam Werbach strips away the Bush administration's rhetoric to expose the "wholesale giveaway" of the nation's natural riches to large corporations.
Special Series: 'The Wal-Mart Effect'
The Los Angeles Times begins a three-part, hard-hitting look at the devastating effects of Wal-Mart's quest for the ultimate low price.
Michigan's Business Strategy Based On Smart Growth
State's economic pain sows seeds of prosperity.
Art Review: Edwin Hopper And Urban Realism
A new exhibit explores impressionist-inspired takes on "the new modern urban reality."
Poorest Of Poor Forced To Volunteer
Public housing residents are being forced to do community service -– but what makes them different from other recipients of federal subsidies?
History's Biggest Wildfire Recovery Effort
Projects in California range from relocating endangered frogs to mulching hillsides by helicopter.
Homeowner Guilt
An Australian columnist discusses the unfair disparities in home values Down Under.
Bangkok: Canal Network Poses Serious Health Risks
The impending death of a high profile resident foregrounds the dangers of klongs, canals that function both as sewers and as transportation in Bangkok.
A Not-So-Loopy Idea
Atlanta's new railway loop proposal may yet survive the usual onslaught of bureaucracy and red tape.
Why Johnny Can't Walk to School
In a Chicago Tribune Op-Ed, the director of a recycling program at the University of Illinois at Chicago ponders the disappearance of walking to school in urban and suburban areas alike.
Housing, Not Shelters, to Abate Homelessness
The state of Massachusetts sets new goals and shifts focus on its approach to dealing with and solving homelessness.
Zoning Without Zoning
Houston, Texas is the only large American city with no formal zoning code. Does it matter?
Sprawl Reduces Available Jobs
Smart growth offers a job-producing alternative to urban sprawl.
Smart Growth: Better Jobs, But Higher Housing Prices?
Does the new report by Good Jobs First about smart growth resulting in better jobs also confirm that smart growth raises housing prices?
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Zoning Without Zoning
Many Families of WTC Victims Do Not Support Memorial Designs
A coalition of families of WTC victims grade all eight finalist designs for the WTC Memorial with an "F".
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)
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