Urban Development

An overview in the New York Times of the success of transit-oriented development around new rail lines. TOD succeeds even in a poor housing market, experts say.

June 15, 2009 - The New York Times

As farmland prices skyrocketed, so did the cost of growing a suburb.

June 15, 2009 - New Geography

DuPage County may let developers bypass the County Board for project approval if they develop low- to moderate-income housing projects.

June 15, 2009 - Chicago Tribune

Several horse racing tracks in California have suffered declining revenues and are being redeveloped, with speculation about more closures on the way.

June 14, 2009 - California Planning and Development Report

New York City is considering new legislation that seeks to address problems brought by the national recession to stalled construction sites and New Yorkers endangered by them.

June 13, 2009 - The Architect's Newspaper

The future of Paris has been laid out by ten teams of architects and planners. The ideas are broad, futuristic, and innovative, but few are likely to be realized.

June 11, 2009 - The New York Times

After the Postal Service moved to a new building on Harrison Street, the 14-story, 77-year-old building has been vacant since 1995. Now it is to be auctioned.

June 11, 2009 - Chicago Tribune

In preparation for CNU 17 in Denver, the hometown paper published three op-eds on the importance of new urbanism, how it is changing development throughout the country, Denver's stellar role in it, and examples of it being put to use in the region.

June 10, 2009 - The Denver Post

City officials in Houston are set to consider plans to incentivize broad pedestrian walkways near existing and planned light rail stations within the city.

June 10, 2009 - The Houston Chronicle

A new 350,000-person eco-city is being planned in China, this time with cooperation from Singapore. Planners are hopeful that it can serve as a sustainable model for development in countries with high population growth.

June 10, 2009 - Guardian

Though they are still striving for social tolerance, mobile homes have managed to achieve a certain legal acceptance.

June 9, 2009 - Virginia Lawyers Weekly

A roundtable discussion on the projected growth in the Bay Area of California, and the planning tools being unveiled that will help mitigate the projected increase of an additional 2 million inhabitants to the region by 2035.

June 9, 2009 - KQED.org

The Morris County Planning Board indicates that no new residential subdivisions of 20 or more lots were received in 2008, which signals the end of large-tract developments.

June 9, 2009 - Daily Record

Hayward, which is an East Bay suburb of San Francisco, has laid the groundwork for a nearly car-free housing development for environmentally conscious living.

June 9, 2009 - San Francisco Chronicle

Fort Lauderdale joins a national program which will provide $3.7 million to change foreclosed homes into affordable housing.

June 8, 2009 - Sun-Sentinel

Schadenfreude is a German concept that means "taking pleasure in the suffering of others." Columnist Meghan Daum is experiencing 'debtenfreude'; the pleasure in watching house flippers and McMansion builders fall to the economic downturn.

June 8, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

Concern: Ames Shovel Shops might be demolished.

June 7, 2009 - The Boston Globe

A competition to design the shopping mall of the future produces some surprisingly non-futuristic results, according to juror and commentator Allison Arieff.

June 6, 2009 - The New York Times

A review of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, from Residential Architect Online.

June 4, 2009 - Residential Architect Online

The False Creek Shoreline in northeast Vancouver has been slated for decades for significant commercial development. Today, planners proposed taking the area in a new direction.

June 2, 2009 - The Vancouver Sun