Urban Development
New Urbanism Arrives At Ozarks
Three new developments in the Ozarks will be based on New Urbanist principles.
Why Investors Should Care About Zoning
To an ethical investor, growth doesn't always lead to happiness. Investors are looking for ways to differentiate good growth from bad growth.
Transit Villages Planned In The Bay Area
Planners envision transit villages in the Bay Area connected by trains, ferries, buses, and light rail.
Florida City Grapples With Slackening Condo Demand
A housing market slowdown has many worried that the Fort Myers condo market is not all that it was cracked up to be.
Major Returns For Real Estate Investment In India
Experts estimate that foreign investors can expect to reap over four times more profit in India than in the U.S. or Europe.
Wall St. As Shopping Mecca?
A developer wants to transform a bank into a shopper's delight. Could this be the development that transforms the area into a 24/7 urban CBD?
More Development, Less Home Runs?
A new mixed-use development in Boston's Fenway neighborhood is causing quite a stir -- not with the NIMBY crowd, but with the Fenway faithful who are concerned that the new development has created a wind pattern that will prevent home runs.
A Transit Village for New Jersey's Meadowlands
New Jersey is making a billion dollar investment in hopes a new city will spring up from the marshes and industrial sites of the Meadowlands.
Can Detroit Continue Its Momentum?
The challenges are great, but city officials and business leaders are hopeful that Detroit will build upon its successful Superbowl weekend.
ULI's Special Report On The Gulf Coast
It has been five months since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Urban Land publishes a 24-page special report with an overview, recommendations, and essays from urban planners, local business leaders, developers, architects, and academia regarding the future of the Crescent City.
Transformation Continues in Boston's South End
Once blighted with boarding houses and abandoned buildings, Boston's already gentrified South End is still an ongoing project in hip urban transformation.
A Growing Water Crisis In Rural Arizona Desert
New development explodes in the underregulated rural Arizona desert, as developers realize that a severe lack of water won't prevent development.
Las Vegas Mega Developer Jim Rhodes Profiled
Jim Rhodes may soon be the Nevada's largest home builder. His developments are popular, but opponents and some previous homebuyers are wary.
A Raw Deal For Harlem
A $200-million hotel project, touted as the first major tourist lodging in the neighborhood since 1966, drifts into obscurity amid corruption charges aimed at the developer.
Do Mega Malls Improve Communities?
As mega-malls begin to emerge in established communities, communities have mixed feelings. Some think the development will bring traffic. Others look to increasing property values.
Student Housing As Commodity
Aussie investment corporation ING's $100 million deal nets 90 percent of U. Conn's off-campus student housing.
Gentrification On 86th Street
For years, Lexington and 86th, considered the crossroads of the Upper East Side, has resisted gentrification. But those days are over, as a family squabble has been settled and a major mixed-use development project will replace some 1920s tenements.
In East Boston, Diversity Is The Attraction
A new greenway, loft development, affordability, and cultural diversity are all are attracting homebuyers to East Boston.
China's Motor City
The son of Hitler's architect has been hired to design the 300,000-person 'Detroit of the East' in Changchun.
Growth Threatens America's Coasts
In an eight-part series, Gannett compiles three months of analysis to expose the serious problems of unchecked growth along the country's shores, along with a host of counterproductive public policies.
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.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
