Urban Development
World's Fastest Growing City - A Photo Essay
Dubai is leading the pace as one of the world's fastest growing cities.
Sharpening 'Ruppie' Skills For Downtown Living
Urban planner Kyle Ezell has developed a course to teach suburbanites the "skills" required for downtown living. It promotes the "ruppie", or "retired urban people" lifestyle.
Chicago's Millenium Park Sparks High End Housing Development
Modernist park design inspires modernist residential buildings, increasing real estate values in Chicago's East Loop.
Bill Clinton Pushes LEED On Shopping Center Industry
Former President Clinton, addressing the shopping center industry's convention in Las Vegas, urged the adoption of LEED certification for new centers, explaining how it would benefit the security of the country and the economy.
L.A. Stakeholders Perform 'Walk Audit' Downtown
L.A.'s downtown Business Improvement District calls on local business people, property owners, and residents to get stepping in L.A.'s Fashion District, to evaluate the area's walkability. The BID has $1.6 million to make improvements by 2008.
Reframing New Jersey's Competitive Challenge
New research by the Brookings Institution ties New Jersey's troubling economic position to multiple forces, including rising housing costs, persistent race, class and place disparities, and unbalanced development patterns.
Philadelphia's Navy Yard Turns Commercial
Philadelphia's Navy Yard provides a suburban office park environment, and historic fabric, at the edge of the city, with opportunities from dog walking for office employees to a future 2016 Olympic site.
National Jazz Center Park Planned For Central New Orleans
Strategic Hotels & Resorts has proposed a plan to build a 20-acre national jazz center and park in the center of New Orleans, to be designed by Pritzker Prize winner, Thom Mayne.
Even in Sprawling Arizona, Downtown Condos Are Now Hip
Phoenix and Tucson are building up, not out, but is it enough to slow desert development?
Faux Suburban Downtowns Challenge Traditional City Centers
The popularity of mixed-use suburban town centers is threatening the viability of older, traditional downtowns. While many tout their urban-style amenities, the suburban centers often lack transit and -- sometimes -- even sidewalks.
The Public Reacts To Miami 21
After the much anticipated unveiling of the first quadrant in the Miami 21 project on May 13th, the public is now taking the opportunity to react to the City's most ambitious urban planning effort to date.
Seven Housing Markets With Most Potential
How to identify and invest in housing markets with good short- and long-term appreciation potential.
America's Most Surreal Housing Market
What does it take to sell real estate in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina?
Government Buildings Are Getting Nicer
Security, workforce, and sustainability concerns are causing federal, state and local governments to build and lease Class-A space.
Developers Demand JFK Rail Link
A web of politics, lobbying, and profit motives have developers scrambling in support of a rail link that could have a significant impact on the economy of New York City and state.
New EPA Fact Sheets On Smart Growth And Stormwater Best Management Practices
New fact sheets are available on best practices to reach water quality, redevelopment, and smart growth goals.
Bloomberg Tower Revitalizes NYC Neighborhood
The recent completion of the Bloomberg Tower has inspired a number of new development projects, which has created a commercial renaissance in a formerly lackluster area of mid-town.
Memphis Brings in Garvin to Get Plans Moving for Park
Memphis's 4500-acre Shelby Farms Park has languished for years. Now, local leaders are bringing in Yale professor Alex Garvin to try to bring the park up to its potential.
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.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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
