Social / Demographics
More Cops The Easy Answer for
George Will asserts that policing has achieved more success than any other effort to revitalize our inner cities.
Obesity And Life Styles: Your Hamburger Or Your House?
Utt, O'Toole & Cox summarize the arguments against linking sprawl and obesity.
Immigrants, Domestic Migrants Head For Different Metropolitan Magnets
In this report, author William Frey finds that regions like New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco gained significant numbers of immigrants between 1995 and 2000, but at the same time lost domestic migrants to faster-growing metropolitan
Does Suburbia Deserve A Warning Label?
Is the smart growth movement confusing the cultural impacts of convenience with the impacts of sprawl, wonders columnist John King.
The Sprawl Effect
Fleeing the crowded, polluted city was supposed to be good for your health. But suburbs have some definite ills as well.
Kunstler: Depression In The American Landscape
Shocked by so much depression in America? J.H. Kunstler says, don't be. It's part of how we live.
More Americans Living in Poverty
A shocking new Census report reveals that the number living in poverty in the U.S. has increased two years in a row.
Creating Social Safety Nets In Suburbs
Social Service Centers work to fill the lack of social safety nets in suburban areas of Chicago.
'Unleading' the Way for Safer Environments for Children
Lawyers and a defunct real estate company agree to what is the largest settlement for a childhood lead poisoning case in the state of Massachusetts--raising awareness of the dangers of lead-based paint to landlords statewide.
Income Disparity Among Asian Ethnic Groups
An analysis of census data reveals that a wide economic gulf exists between 'city-dwelling Asian ethnic groups and their suburban counterparts.'
Contemporary American Life Must Change
James Howard Kunstler evaluates how the sociology of American communities leads to obesity and depression.
New York's Last Flash Mob
The person who launched New York's "flash mob" craze, calls for one final mob event which does not unfold as planned.
Friday Funny: Oddly Named Places
When someone tells you to go to Hell, it apparently means Michigan.
Want To Stop Sprawl? Curb Immigration
Anti-sprawl activists criticize a study that suggest that curbing immigration -- not planning and zoning -- is the solution for urban sprawl.
How Americans Really Live
Two authors argue that what is driving Americans into debt is not 'superficial luxury spending but necessities.'
Urban Convergence
Smart City Radio show asks the question: "Does sprawl make us fat?"
Sprawl And Obesity: Why All The Fuss?
Wendell Cox critiques a recent report on sprawl and obesity, and puts the findings in context.
Suburbs Diversifying in Age and Race
In suburbs,'disparities in age and ethnicity are...creating the potential for competition over money for education, transportation, senior centers and child care.'
Which Suburbs Have The Most Overweight People?
A new study adds evidence to the idea that sprawl helps cause obesity, and names the suburbs with the heaviest residents.
Does Immigration Cause Sprawl?
A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies says that sprawl in California's Central Valley could be controlled by curtailing immigration.
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
