Virginia
Friday Funny: Stranger Than Fiction
A woman in Alexandria, VA uses an essay contest to dispose of her properties.
Community Action Gets Results
Through action and self advocacy, an impoverished community secures funding for new homes and economic development.
Downtown Richmond's Hidden Parking Potential
Outdated parking regulations in Richmond, Va. outlive changed traffic patterns.
Virginia Lending Policy To Include Gay Couples
"Virginia's housing authority will provide low-interest mortgages to gay couples and other singles living together, abandoning a one-of-a-kind lending policy that limited such help to married couples and single people living alone, commis
Rural Megachurches: Assets Or Environmental Threats?
Critics say large-scale churches seeking to locate in rural preserves increase traffic, invite strip malls, pave over open space, and undermine conservation efforts.
Stadium NIMBYs
Arlington County, VA is willing to forego a baseball stadium for other developments that would yield more economic benefits.
Highway Spurs Growth Before It Is Opened To Traffic
VA 288 is spurring development in Richmond area's western growth corridor.
Beltway HOT Lanes Proposal Endorsed
Public-private partnership proposal to add four new managed lanes to virginia's portion of the Beltway moves ahead.
Urban Or Suburban? New Transit Study Has The Answer
A new study compares life at each end of Virginia's Orange Line.
Public Housing Trespass Ban Upheld
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to invalidate a Richmond housing authority policy to keep nonresidents out of city housing projects.
Using Environmental Ordinances To Slow Development?
Are stream buffers effective or is Fairfax County, VA, using environmental ordinances to slow development?
Can Good Behavior Be Legislated?
City's morality effort aims to make the beach a little less coarse.
Families With Children Need Not Apply?
Of all the people moving into the new 80-unit Broadway condominium in Falls Church [Virginia], only one is expected to be a school-age child.
SUVs Banned From Parking In Dense Neighborhoods
A community does not allow SUVs to park on its narrow streets.
Form-Based Code Reaps Dividends
The Columbia Pike Initiative has established a planning framework for the first construction for small business in 40 years.
Gindroz Shapes Norfolk Revitalization
If it weren’t for Pittsburgh-based urban design consultant Ray Gindroz, Norfolk’s celebrated revitalization might never have materialized.
Can The Nation's Pre-Eminent Edge City Turn Into A Real Downtown?
Tyson's Corner, the commercial district in suburban Washington, DC featured in Joel Garreau's classic book Edge City: Life on the New Fronter, has plans to become a real downtown.
Can Neighboring Municipalities And Counties Cooperate?
Robert Norfleet, a retired banker, asks if local governments in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area can cooperate across jurisdictional boundaries, even when conflicts and disputes arise.
Property Rights, Downzoning, And TDRs
Loudoun County, Virginia, continues to try to balance land preservation and growth pressures, but can't use tools that work because of Virginia's hardcore property rights bent.
Can Surveillance Cameras Deter Crime?
Crime-ridden cities are installing surveillance cameras to prevent crime.
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 Moorpark
City of Tustin
Tyler Technologies
City of Astoria
Transportation Research & Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
