Texas
Urban Village Development in Texas a Complicated Affair
"Urban Villages," the development trend that is meant to counter sprawl, is facing challenges in Texas.
El Paso: When Growth Becomes Sprawl
Faced with the first phase of a planned 1,300-home subdivision, El Paso struggles to decide when exactly growth becomes urban sprawl.
Smart Growth And Sprawl In Texas
Would smart growth strategies actually drive up housing costs and increase traffic in Texas?
Land Use Control 'Bought' On Unannexed Land
City purchases restrictive land use covenant over land not in the city limits.
Houston's Eighth Wonder Of The World
Houston's bid for the 2008 Olympics may rest on how it rehabs the aging Astrodome.
Federal Funding Ban On Light Rail Continues In Houston
House lawmakers dealt a major setback to expansion of light rail in Houston on Tuesday, rejecting efforts to restore federal funding for the system.
Texas Gives Suburbs Power To Run Mass Transit
Gov. Rick Perry signed a mass transit bill into law late Sunday which allows suburban counties adjacent to large cities to create, organize and manage their own mass transit authorities.
Transit Mall Planned Around Dallas Transit Station
100 acres of the Urban Center development in Las Colinas have been set aside for a transit mall that will be built around the DART light-rail station scheduled to open in 2008.
Dallas Rejects Super-sized Billboards
The Dallas planning commission rejects the use of "supergraphics" on downtown buildings.
Commuting To Work With Pedal Power
A columnist for the Dallas Morning News chronicles his commute to work on his bicycle.
Commuter Rail Laying Track In Downtown Ft. Worth
The Fort Worth Transportation Authority is hoping to begin service connecting it to Dallas before November.
Supreme Court Rules On Houston Redistricting
At issue was a 1997 plan that created a large, primarily white district, while leaving several minority districts intact.
Smog Lawsuit Settlement Averts Fund Cutoff
A lawsuit by environmentalists that could have cutoff federal transportation funding to the Houston area has been settled.
Houston's Largest Planned Community
A new master-planned community north of Houston will cover 8,000 acres and include 20,000 single-family homes.
Houston Is Back
With a booming downtown, a tight office market, and a renewed energy industry, Houston appears to be on the verge of a comeback.
Transit Vision For The Houston Region
A long-awaited transit study sets out the vision for the future of rail in the Houston region -- and it barely mentions transit.
Converting A Train Station To Upscale Hotel
Fort Worth, Texas planners examine how to convert a train station to an upscale hotel.
Protecting History From New Development
Designation as a historic district has not lead to renewal in one of Dallas' last freedman's towns, and locals fear the area will be lost to new development.
Water More Valuable Than Oil In Texas
A profit-driven water market has "triggered water wars in Texas. "Water ranches" threaten to pump the state's aquifers dry and cause water shortages.
Sprawl: It's Market-driven Growth
Sprawl offends urban planners, but it's just market-oriented growth to the business community.
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
