Colorado
Innovations In Co-Housing
Colorado, which is home to one of the hottest co-housing markets in the country, seeks to add diversity to its projects.
Cabaret: Private Club Or Public Venue?
Lakewood, Colorado cites a cabaret for operating in violation of the city's zoning code, and raises a city debate over zoning's role in regulating morality.
Light Rail As Community Development Tool
Light rail has transformed one of Denver's most dangerous neighborhoods.
Denver's Infill Success
Infill -- when it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, the developer should be excised.
Fake Lawn Faux Pas
Plastic landscaping may be morphing beyond pink flamingos & poolside excess into an entire lifestyle statement.
How Airports Are Reused
Across the country, former airports like Denver's 1929 Stapleton Airport are becoming neighborhoods.
2003 Planning Award Winners
The APA honors the most outstanding efforts in the art, science, and profession of community planning.
Update From APA's 2003 Conference
Sunday was the first day of the national American Planning Association conference in Denver, Colorado. 5,000 are expected.
Smart Growth Scorecard Introduced
A scorecard system being discussed in Denver offers a market-based alternative to zoning for encouraging smart growth.
Preserving Land, Building Affordable Housing
The Aspen Times details an innovative affordable housing for land preservation trade in Aspen, Colorado.
Market Demand For Smart Growth Projects Increasing
As sprawl increases, the demand for urban-redevelopment projects is increasing. Denver's Highlands' Garden Village is the perfect example.
Denver Faces Affordable-housing Crisis
Denver is facing a housing crisis but no one is paying attention.
A Threat Comes To Pass
A landowner drops historic properties in a high-stakes gamble.
Drought Brings Gardening Ban
Aurora residents are banned from planting new vegetable and flower gardens as the city enacts the area's toughest drought restrictions.
Funding Roads Or Public Transit?
The Rocky Mountain News presents a point-counterpoint over a Colorado bill that proposes to divert funds into a "congestion relief fund" to be spent on roads rather than public transit.
Denver's New Beltway Loop A Boon To Development
The old real estate maxim "location, location, location" is being replaced with the mantra "water, water, water."
Denver: High And Mighty
APA profiles the history of planning in Denver in preparation for the 2003 APA conference.
Stapleton: Is This New Urbanism?
Quebec Square at the former Stapleton airport is a high-profile new urbanist project that some critics say ignores new urbanist principles.
Denver Planners Seek To Reduce Commuting Distances
cities along Colorado's Front Range seek the right mix of jobs and homes to keep commuting distances.
Denver: A Housing Boom Or Housing Glut?
Denver is experiencing a housing glut, with downtown lofts, condos, and apartments all coming on the market at the same time.
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
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
