Alabama
Downtown Mobile Has High Hopes In Cruise Ship
Can Mobile, AL make a successful transition from an industrial harbor, to a tourist destination?
Alabama Catches On To New Urbanism
After years of coastal sprawl, Alabama's beaches finally see a trio of walkable, mixed-use communities.
Private Property Rights And Public Use: Finding The Balance
Eminent domain has been a tool used by governmental authorities to advance the public good or for public use, but who decides what is in the public's interest? This story highlights problems inherent to wielding such power.
Computer Game Helps Students Learn Urban Planning
Students learn about urban planning by playing SimCity, a popular computer game that involves designing and managing your own city.
Buying Economic Development
A retired businessman has become a celebrity as he buys up land in Tuscumbia, Alabama to return the town to the busy place he remembers.
Alabama Losing Its Legacy
Alabama has lost more species than any other state in the continental United States, mostly owing to human impacts.
Reviving Downton: A Chicken-and-egg Problem
The closing of a neighborhood gas station illustrates the problems associated with people moving out of the downtown area, and with attempts to repopulate that area.
Architect Samuel Mockbee: A 'Genius' Worked For The Poor
Winner of a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' grant, architect Samuel Mockbee dies at 57.
Monsanto Pollution: The Story Of Anniston, AL
Decades of concealed pollution by corporate giant devastated Anniston, AL.
Monsanto Concealed 40 Years Of Pollution
Monsanto created one of the most contaminated areas in the U.S. The corporate giant knew about the pollution and concealed it for nearly 40 years.
Alabama Counties Seek Planning Powers
Alabama has set a 2001 goal for counties to regulate county development through the implementation of planning and zoning requirements.
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 Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
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
