Nevada
Las Vegas Wants To Build A Downtown
Las Vegas -- the city best known for it's imitation monuments -- wants to build a real downtown.
Las Vegas Seeks Urban Legitimacy
Las Vegas, Nevada has been ridiculed as a warped caricature of american culture. It now wants cosmopolitan trappings.
Las Vegas: Utopia Of Clowns
James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, publishes a chapter from his forthcoming book on the Web.
How Two Fast-Growing Cities Deal With Growth
The Christian Science Monitor looks at how Las Vegas and Reno have dealt with their growth problems.
Las Vegas Says No To Affordable Housing Project
Las Vegas City Council members and residents came out against a proposed affordable housing development citing an absence of open space.
The Best New Hotel In Las Vegas?
Las Vegas real estate mogul pronounces his new hotel "the single most wonderful resort in the history of Las Vegas."
Las Vegas:From 'Sin City' To 'Smog City'
Las Vegas has some of the worst air quality in the Western US. Lax enforcement of environmental laws at fault.
Urbanizing Lake Tahoe
Environmentalists and affordable housing advocates compromise on a plan bringing more development around the famed lake.
The Smithsonian Comes To Las Vegas
Smithsonian-sponsored tours of art and architecture have added Las Vegas to the schedule. "Glitz and fakery is art, too."
Nation's Fastest-Growing Region And New Urbanism
Las Vegas faces air pollution, traffic congestion, and scarce water supplies. But the city's mayor, an unlikely New Urbanist, has big plans.
Las Vegas Short On Parks
In the gaming capital of the nation, local officials are working to combat the shortage of parks and recreation facilities.
Nevada: A Future Atomic Wastebasket?
Residents fear that Yucca Mountain, in western Nevada, will become the burial ground for nuclear waste.
Keeping Up With Growth
The City of Reno is adding over $260 million in public projects to cope with the region's growth.
Nevada Working Toward Renewable Energy
State officials are trying to build one of the largest wind farms in the nation.
Waste Plan May Put Nevada At Risk
Plans to store nuclear waste above ground poses a health risk to citizens and an environmental risk to the state.
Nevada Gets Grant For Homeless
Homeless assistance providers will receive $3.85 Million in grants from HUD.
Las Vegas Is Taking Homeowners Downtown
It takes more than stores and office buildings to revitalize a tired downtown. Las Vegas is implementing a strategy that is also a trend for many cities in the western U.S. -- building housing downtown.
Firm Builds Vegas-style Mass Transit
A four-mile monorail system linking Las Vegas' major hotels and convention center to the airport is the "only public transportation project in the history of North America that's being built without any federal money or subsidy."
Las Vegas' Transportation Plan Hits The Jackpot
Approval of two new transportation plans earmarks $21 billon dollars in spending to solving the region's traffic problems.
Who Owns Searchlight, Nevada?
An 1872 mining law lies at the heart of the dispute over who owns Searchlight, a city about 50 miles from Las Vegas.
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
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
