Arizona
Airport Accessibility A High Priority In Scottsdale
To help keep its airport a major revenue generator, the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is considering a variety of plans to improve accessibility. Most of the plans on the table revolve around building roads, but bus rapid transit is also proposed.
Booming Town Seeks Water From Reluctant Neighbor
An 11-year drought in the Southwest U.S. has a growing small town in Nevada looking to pump water from nearby Beaver Dam, Arizona. Many in the Arizona town are upset over the proposed water-snatch, which they say limits their own ability to develop.
Opposition Growing To Public Subsidies For Retail Mega-Projects
Proposed state legislation in Arizona will punish cities that offer subsidies to retail projects. Kansas City's new mayor was elected on an anti-TIF platform. Increasingly, public financing for urban revitalization is coming under attack.
Dust Busting For Air Quality
With one of the worst air quality ratings in the nation, metropolitan Phoenix is looking to reduce its pollution. Part of a new clean air plan targets the construction industry, which produces much of the dust that affects air quality.
Homeowners' Association Thwarts Efforts At Energy Conservation
An Arizona home owner's association fines a resident for installing a solar-powered heater arguing that the appearance of the device violates the subdivision's deed restrictions.
Glass Skywalk Extended Over Grand Canyon
Tourists who pay $74.95 will soon be able to enjoy a walk 'over' the Grand Canyon, with the money providing needed income for the Hualapai Indian Tribe.
Phoenix's Black Residents Trade Sense Of Community For American Dream
As middle and upper class black families increasingly move to the suburbs of Phoenix, they must cope with the loss of cultural connections that existed in historically black neighborhoods.
Metro Head Seeks $1.7 Billion More For Phoenix Light Rail Plans
Phoenix Metro director is looking to expedite plans for a regional light rail system by drafting a strategy to garner and extra $1.7 billion needed to pursue the project.
24 Lanes Of Traffic Relief For Phoenix
The Mayor of Tempe, Arizona, is advocating widening Interstate 10 from Tempe to East Phoenix to 12 lanes in each direction.
Tenant Holds Out Against Eminent Domain For Phoenix Light Rail
As plans push forward for the construction of a light rail system in Phoenix, Arizona, one man has refused to vacate the final property local governments need to acquire through eminent domain to complete the project.
Grand Canyon Skywalk: Eyesore Or Marvel?
Plans for a massive glass skywalk over the Grand Canyon, hotels, and a golf course are aimed at revitalizing a small reservation but critics say the development will commercialize a natural and national treasure.
Phoenix Mayor Looks To Create Biomedical District
The mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, hopes to lure biomedical researchers and facilities to a proposed biomedical district in his city's downtown. And he's willing to do a lot to see his vision through.
Sharing The Burden Of A Drought
In an agreement that could shape the way multi-state water sources are managed, Arizona and Nevada have formed a deal that would distribute between the states the burden of any water shortages in the Colorado River.
Students 'Engineer' Cities Around A Toxic Future
The national association of engineers sponsors a "Future City Competition' in which junior high school students design a city, based on the premise that toxic chemicals have rendered the planet uninhabitable.
The School Of Environmental Sustainability
As universities across the country are renovating their campuses and buildings to be more environmentally sustainable, one university is taking the subject into the classroom as its School of Sustainability opens next month.
Eminent Domain Limitations May Stand In Arizona
As voters in Arizona overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative to restrict the government's use of eminent domain, the state's Supreme Court unanimously overturned another court's ruling that the initiative was invalid.
Phoenix's Housing Glut
The housing market decline has left many new suburban tract homes in the Phoenix metro area without buyers.
Funding Transportation Through User Fees, Not Sales Taxes
While sales tax increases have proven popular, road tolls and other user fees are better methods to fund transportation improvements, says transportation expert Martin Wachs.
Battle Rages Over Arizona State Trust Land
Stakeholders in Arizona are battling it out this election over how to handle more than 9 million acres of state trust land.
Regulatory Takings Or Eminent Domain?
Property rights initiatives in four western states are hoping to draw in support from voters afraid of the spectre of eminent domain. But many see this as an inaccurate ploy.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
New York City School Construction Authority
Village of Glen Ellyn
Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
