Texas
Supersized Highways
Texas is planning a behemoth, statewide transit system that raises more questions than it answers.
Is Austin Ready for TOD?
A feature-length story examines the dramatic impact transit-oriented development is likely to have on Austin's future.
Test Your 'MetroRail IQ'
On the first anniversary of the Main Street light rail line, the Houston Chronicle's transportation columnist offers his own MetroRail IQ test.
Rediscovering Urban Life
Houston's center is beginning to flourish but there are still challenges ahead.
Austin: The Year In Review
2004's top ten local issues in the central Texas region.
Getting Started On The Trans Texas Corridor
The Trans Texas Corridor is a planned statewide corridor for rail, passenger and freight roadways.
New Urbanism With A Texas Twang
Sandy Sorlien continues the MainStreet Diary series with a visit to Fort Worth, a city in the midst ofrebuilding and revitalization.
Fighting The Homeless?
Proposed Austin ordinances would criminalize common homeless activities -- but might some of these activities be more common than many realize?
A Mall Is Not A Town Square, Court Rules
Texas courts uphold a controversial ruling on privately-owned shopping centers to regulate solicitation on center properties.
Debate Over Trans Texas Corridor Plan
Opposition is growing to Governor Rick Perry's proposal for a 4,000-mile network of quarter-mile-wide multimodal corridors for transporting goods, people and utilities.
Austin Voters Pass Commuter-Rail Referendum
The ballot measure, called Capital Metro, may lead to a multi-modal transportation system in Central Texas.
Calatrava Bridge Project May Be Phony
Local columnist argues that Dallas project is corrupt and doesn't deserve federal transportation funding.
Austin Rail Referendum Passes
Voters approved a scaled-back version of commuter rail proposal that was rejected in 2000.
Are Rural Prisons A Good Economic Development Strategy?
A columnist explains how the small Texas town of Eden grew to love its private prison.
School And The Suburb
Does the placement of schools encourage sprawl.
Schools And Freeways Don't Mix
Studies show emissions from traffic on freeways detrimental to schoolchildren's health.
The Economic Impacts Of An NFL Stadium
An Economic Research Associate study finds that a proposed stadium in Arlington, TX will generate $15.82 billion in economic impacts for the city over 30 years.
New Nicknames For Houston Light Rail
'Wham-Bam-Tram'and 'Streetcar Named Disaster' are some the nicknames given to the Houston's new light rail line between downtown and the Astrodome.
Houston Uses Faults To Highlight Assets
A new marketing campaign uses some of the reasons people hate Houston to introduce why "It's Worth It."
Anatomy Of A Dallas Development
A blighted area of downtown Dallas is being transformed -- inch by dogged inch -- into an upscale urban neighborhood by Dallas-based Hillwood Development.
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.
Greater Baltimore Committee
Eagle County Government
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
Journal of the American Planning Association
