Technology
Next Generation Traffic Simulation
Traffic simulation models offer significant benefits, but after 35 years of development and application, they still have shortcomings. A new study seeks to fill in the gaps.
Using Google Maps to Find An Ancient Roman Villa In Your Backyard
An Italian enthusiast examning maps of the region around his home using two new Google mapping products discovers the remains of an ancient Roman Villa.
Is Broadband A Municipal Service?
With high-speed internet access becoming a necessity, rural Arizona lawmakers are searching for ways to bring broadband to rural towns.
Managing The Largest Environmental Project In The World
Restoring Florida's Everglades is the largest environmental project in the world. The team is using an innovative technology to manage public interaction.
Hackers Use Google To Map Hurricane's Impact
The tech-savvy are using mapping and satellite images from Google to map the devastaton caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Have Hybrid, Will Travel
Auto dealers are getting as much as $4,000 over sticker for hybrids that now have carpool privileges.
Auto Travel In The Future
The next generation of cars will auto-sense traffic, accidents, and be self-guided. But who will drive?
Dynamically Pricing Parking, Or The Goldilocks Principle
Will new curbside sensor technology make it possible to price parking spaces based on demand and usage?
Googlenet?
Business 2.0 speculates that Google may offer free wireless Internet access to residents of major cities in return for the knowing the precise location of every Wi-Fi user.
Time is Running Out to Develop Alternative Energy
Some alternative, renewable energy sources may take decades to develop. We may not have that much time.
Einstein's Impact On GPS
A columnist explains how global positioning systems link are based on an Einstein theory as an argument for why continued funding of research is essential.
Personal Emission Cards
Brits consider radical plan to measure personal emissions.
Using Technology To Ease Traffic
CIO magazine reports on a number of technology-related initiatives promise to ease chronic traffic woes.
How Technology Is Transforming Urban Planning
A new generation of "decision support" tools are empowering ordinary citizens to participate in planning.
E-government And Planning: Key Citizen Participation Issues
A free new book explores the issues related to on-line citizen participation for local government planning departments.
Inflexible, 'Brittle' Cities Vulnerable to Terrorism
Terrorism is such a threat to modern cities partly because of the way we have organized our economies and transport systems as highly complex systems with few redundancies.
The 'James Bond' Aerogenerator Wind Turbine
The Aerogenerator doesn't look like an ordinary turbine -- something that could sway anti-wind farm groups.
Self-Cleaning Concrete To Fight Pollution
Scientists have developed “smart" building materials designed to wash pollutants off the surface and clean the air.
City Approves Municipal Fiber Network
Facing stiff opposition from cable and phone companies, voters in Lafayette, Louisiana approve a municipal fiber to the home network.
How Far Can New PHEVs Go On A Gallon Of Gas?
New plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, or PHEVs, are now getting mileage in the triple-digits on a single gallon of fuel.
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.
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Nashville Planning Department
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association
