Illinois
Tallest U.S. Skyscraper Planned For Chicago
A 115-story spiral designed by architect Santiago Calatrava is planned to be the nation's tallest building.
Chicago's Motor Row Gets Residential Resurgence
The historic urban area has seen a recent revitalization that planners hope will spark more growth.
Urbana Renewal
Renewable energy sources like wind and sun could supply 8 percent of Illinois' electric supply by 2013.
Chicago's 'Millennium Park Effect'
Chicago's Millennium Park is a 'theme park for adults' and is being hailed as an example of how civic leadership can get things done.
Chicago Transit Authority In Dire Straits
The beleaguered organization needs more funds to continue running past this year.
Monument Mori
Rethinking death and the city.
Planning And Its Disconnects
Can urban planning be a means to great architecture?
Friday Funny: Chicago's Supersized McDonalds
McDonald's tries to pack value into design in its huge new 50thanniversary restaurant, which opened in Chicago.
The Great Urban Theme Park
How does Chicago's new Millenium Park compare with the great urban parks of the 19th and 20th centuries?
City Transit Systems Struggle To Stay On Track
Chicago is latest to consider route cuts, but from Philadelphia to San Francisco, fares may rise.
Slicing And Dicing The Past To Get To The Future
Plans to slip a sparkling new 72 story condo tower behind vintage facades spurs debate on the nature of architectural preservation.
Unusual Coalition Recasts Steel Plant Into A Museum
Plans were unveiled to turn the Acme Steel Co. Chicago Coke Plant into a museum on the history and making of steel.
Staying Busy After (Final) Retirement
For one architect, being dead didn’t put an end to designing buildings.
Using Schools To Revitalize Communities
So how does government help build stronger neighborhoods? Start by building community anchors: schools, libraries, parks and police and fire stations.
Building Smaller, Community-Oriented Schools
Chicago's Public School CEO shares his strategies for planning Chicago's schools.
Shlock Corridor
The will to kitschy architecture outruns rational planning.
Chicago's 'Endangered' Transit System
Chicago Transit Authority faces budget challenges.
Pod Sweet Pod
A new exhibition asks whether top designers can rescue manufactured housing from the public's disdain.
Chicago's Cabrini-Green Projects To Come Down
Chicago is tearing down the historic and notorious Cabrini-Green projects, to much protest by residents.
An Exodus From The Birthplace Of Suburbia
A population drain on Long Island worries officials, who worry about a declining tax base and labor force.
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
