Nevada

Residents of one Las Vegas community fear being evicted as an urban renewal project goes underway. According to this article, projects like this often hurt neighborhoods by destroying the social ties they once contained.

December 18, 2008 - Las Vegas Sun

Foreclosures are spreading across the country like a plague, and there's almost no place worse hit than Las Vegas.

December 9, 2008 - NPR

Warren Buffett, Google and others are investing heavily in geothermal energy development, spurred on by state incentives for renewables and higher gas prices.

November 7, 2008 - The Los Angeles Times

To keep its gaming rights which will in turn preserve its property value, The Queen of Hearts casino must open for eight hours every two years.

October 15, 2008 - Los Angeles Times

Las Vegas' Union Park is a LEED-certified development that sits on a revitalized brownfield, but with no shortage of Vegas' glitz. Can smart growth be as marketable as it is environmentally good?

October 14, 2008 - Next American City

An interview with Tom Skanke, president of a govt. public affairs company, about how he got involved in transportation issues and the unique challenges of moving people around in Las Vegas.

October 5, 2008 - In Business Las Vegas

Concentrating solar, or 'solar thermal', is an old technology getting an update as solar power spreads across the Southwest.

August 24, 2008 - The Christian Science Monitor

This column from Neal Peirce looks at the new megapolitan stronghold of the Intermountain West.

August 12, 2008 - Citiwire

A homeowner on the verge of foreclosure in Las Vegas is not going down without a fight. He is literally destroying his home from the inside out.

June 25, 2008 - CBS 8 Las Vegas

A case over land rights in the West going back decades has been awarded to the estate of a deceased property rights activist, who contended that the Forest Service deprived his ranch of water.

June 12, 2008 - Yahoo News

With some predicting that this fast growing metropolis will run out of water within the decade, the head of the region's water authority has a tough job ahead.

May 29, 2008 - Metropolis Magazine

This article from the Las Vegas Sun asks whether siting two blatantly different architectural styles right next to each other is necessarily a bad thing.

May 27, 2008 - Las Vegas Sun

Despite planners' love-hate relationship with it, Las Vegas is a hotbed of great city-making, according to this post from California Planning and Development Report.

May 5, 2008 - California Planning & Development Report

With a volcano, an Egyptian pyramid and the Eiffel Tower already under its belt, Las Vegas is trying its hand at building something else from scratch: a downtown.

April 23, 2008 - The New York Times

This article looks at what could happen if Nevada's reservoir Lake Mead actually does dry up by 2021 as some scientists have predicted.

March 31, 2008 - The Alternative Consumer, via Environmental News Network

New census figures show that suburban growth is slowing down in the Sunbelt cities of California, Nevada and Arizona.

March 26, 2008 - The Los Angeles Times

An industry is sprouting in Las Vegas based on the preservation of the city's infamous mob history.

March 19, 2008 - The Los Angeles Times

A new greenbelt has been proposed for Reno, Nevada, as a way to encourage people to visit the city's downtown -- and area typically avoided due to its "rough-looking" character.

February 4, 2008 - Reno Gazette-Journal

The first thermal plant in 16 years opened this summer in southern Nevada. And America's most expensive private development - a new hotel and casino complex on the Strip - is getting LEED certified.

December 30, 2007 - The Christian Science Monitor

More than 50,000 people were added to the population of Louisiana in 2007, where growth has been gradual since more than 250,000 fled after Hurricane Katrina. Nevada has regained its long-held title as the nation's fastest growing state.

December 28, 2007 - The Washington Post