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Ohio's Dirty Secret: Brownfields
The Ohio EPA, has started to clean some of its brownfield sites, but the list of brownfield properties is no longer public.
Seedy Chic In Pasadena, California
Old Pasadena has a successful shopping and entertainment district, and it includes pawn, porn and tattoo shops.
CA Power Needs Alienating The West
Other western states have the same power needs as California and they fear that California will bleed them dry.
Getting Uppity In Suburbia
Why do U.S. suburbs have aristrocratic British names? The answer lies in the secrets of "real estate branding."
Giving The Suburb A Sense Of Town
A bedroom community attempts to create sense of place.
Technology Requirements For The Disabled
New regulations require all technology to be accessible to people with disabilities. What effect will this have on state and local governments?
Putting More Housing Into Less Space
Northeast Ohio builders find great demand for cluster development.
Silicon Valley's New E-permit System
A public-private effort in Silicon Valley has resulted in a new, homegrown e-permitting system.
Redesigning California: No Good Paradigm
California does not have enough housing, electricity, water, schools or freeways. And people keep coming. What should we do?
The New Architecture Of Public Buildings
New York's new federal courthouse, designed by Richard Meier, is the largest public building since the New Deal.
Bishops Sound The Alarm For Environment
U.S. and Canadian bishops call for better stewardship of the environment of the vast Columbia River watershed.
Context-Sensitive Design In Wisconsin
Milwaukee transportation planners and consultants explore ideas to make a large highway reconstruction project more neighborhood-friendly.
L.A.'s Most Civil Neighborhood
Los Angeles' Lafayette Square is a model of civility in a city of grittiness. And it's not your average gated community.
A Call For Sound Coastal Planning
At a conference on coastal growth sponsored by the Georgia Conservancy and other environmental groups, Edward T.McMahon, director of land use programs for The Conservation Fund called for careful growth control along Georgia's coastline.
Local Codes Prohibit New Urbanism
While smart growth is a hot topic, cities don't have any regulations that allow compact development.
Sprawl: Wildlife Enemy Number One
A new report finds that urban sprawl is the most dangerous threat to native animals and plants and their habitats.
Building An Urban Soul
More and more communities are realizing they need a downtown -- and trying to build them from scratch.
Cleaner Air Or Better Classrooms?
Officials are considering a rule to take polluting school buses off the street, but opponents say it will only take more money from schools.
A Florida City's Consultant Confusion
A Hallandale Beach City Commissioner who constantly complained that City staff is wasting funds on a consultant studying ways to revitalize a declining area, learns no consultant was ever hired.
When Planners Go Bad
Ontario, CA police caught a planner accepting bribes. Now it looks more like a pervasive pattern of corruption.
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
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
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.
