New York
Rare Opportunity For Planners To Correct 1960's Mistake
Planners have a rare opportunity to correct traffic planning mistakes from the 1960s at the site of the World Trade Center.
Strategic Plan For Downtown Buffalo Released
The plan is called 'The Queen City Hub: A Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo.'
Do Memories Alone Warrant Preservation?
Buffalo, NY, struggles with issues of public memory and preservation around old AM&A's department store.
Mention Of Eminent Domain Disrupts Planning Process
An Albany, NY, neighborhood is split between its desire for revitalization and its distrust of the eminent domain process.
Bigger Doesn't Always Mean Better -- or Successful
There is nothing wrong with big stores like Wal-Mart, but they can't sell a certain commodity.
A Behemoth In Columbus Circle
When the city joins forces with the developers to maximize profit, the balance between public interests and private interests is endangered.
Words From A Powerbroker Planner -- From 1962
Relive planning history in Robert Moses' attack on Lewis Mumford from January, 1962 in The Atlantic Monthly.
Aalto's MIT Masterpiece
While the restoration of Baker House has some purists fuming the classic dorm has never looked better.
Revitalizing An Industrial Neighborhood
The West Chelsea and meatpacking district areas are rapidly being transformed into one of the most hip, lively areas of the city.
Silverstein's WTC Insurance Strategy
Peter Slatin previews Larry Silverstein's fiery strategy to secure a $6.5 billion insurance payoff for the WTC site.
Using GIS To Track Hunger
The Syracuse Hunger Project is an effort to produce maps that identify city neighborhoods with the greatest needs and their geographic relationship available resources.
Many Families of WTC Victims Do Not Support Memorial Designs
A coalition of families of WTC victims grade all eight finalist designs for the WTC Memorial with an "F".
The Flowering Of Manhattan's Bowery
From first-hand experience, Peter Slatin chronicles the flowering of The Bowery, one of Manhattan's true historic thoroughfares.
WTC Memorial Finalists Announced
Designs range from quiet gardens and sunken pools to clouds and shafts of light meant to honor those who died in the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the 1993 bombing of the trade center.
A Precious Resource
New York's Columbus Park doubles as a communal backyard for all of Chinatown.
Who Was Andrew Haswell Green?
Would you believe that some consider him the most important leader in the history of New York City?
If You Build It, What Will Come?
Is a semiconductor plant what a rural upstate town needs?
Train Surfing
Young New Yorkers specialize in this dangerous urban hobby.
Penn Station Lives
Take a revealing tour through New York and the Penn Plaza complex to discover secrets of the station still with us today.
Tech Valley: Boom, Bust, Or Buzz?
The Capital Region of New York (Albany-Troy-Schenectady) has been called the heart of a new, diverse "Tech Valley." Is it true?
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.
City of Camden Redevelopment Agency
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
