Social / Demographics
Parents Exercise Right To Drive
Fitness experts recommend that children add physical activity, such as walking, to their daily routines.
Fighting Homelessness: Chicago's Plan
Other cities adopt model of stressing housing over shelters.
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 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.
Marxist Thought And Planning
Renee Toback writes about the continuing practical relevance of Marxist thought on the field of social planning.
Wilderness Squatters
Wilderness squatters get away from civilization -- and trouble land managers.
Overcoming Locational Disadvantage
How small towns like Fargo and Reno have become job magnets and some of the 'hottest places in America.'
Banned House Design Wins AIA Award
A nationally known architect won an award for student-targeted, pod house design that was banned from a campus neighborhood by city of Gainesville, FL.
What Women Really Want In Neighborhoods
A session at the recent ULI conference addresses the issue of what women really want in neighborhoods, homes and community life.
Whose 'American Dream' Is It?
Wendell Cox and the 'Preserving the American Dream' conference arrive in Cincinnati.
Personal Philanthropy
One woman demonstrates how 30 minutes and 30 dollars a week can change the lives of Denver's homeless population.
Ceaucescu: Father Of Smart Growth?
Wendell Cox charges that the notorious Romanian Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, is the father of smart growth.
Melting Pot Dynamics
A look, from the perspective of the new 'Main Streets' program in Washington D.C., at the joys and pangs of bringing change to a neighborhood deeply embedded in its cultural roots.
Community Ties That Bind
Former residents of a Baltimore neighborhood who were forced out to make way for a proposed highway over 35 years ago, reunite--sans the bitterness.
Sick of Suburbia
Boston suburbanites, who are fed up with their car-based existence, are part of a larger trend of suburbanites rethinking their environment.
Friday Funny: Embarrassing Street Name Forces Couple To Move Out
A lesson to be learned on the sensitive nature of street identity, and the effect it can have on residents.
LA's Transit And Grocery Strikes? Yawn.
In jaded Los Angeles, most find the dual strikes that would cripple other cities merely an inconvenience.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Millions of children in the U.S. are being raised by their grandparents; various groups and organizations speculate on causes.
The Promised Land
Throughout American history, blacks have been systematically denied something they cherish.
Unmarried America
New demographics and non-traditional families are changing the nature of the U.S. social infrastructure.
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.
New York City School Construction Authority
Village of Glen Ellyn
Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
