United States
How To Lose Weight With New Urbanism
New Urbanism can help Americans become healthier by making cities more pedestrian-friendly.
Landowner Equity and Protecting the Commons
William Honachefsky proposes several solutions to more effectively controlling sprawl through land use planning.
Planners Help Towns To Preserve
New development blends ecologically responsible, high-tech homes, and preservation of natural features in the Greater Toronto area.
A Week With Nikos Salingaros
An arts-and-culture blog features an in-depth, five-part interview with architectural thinker Nikos Salingaros.
Environmentalism And Smart Growth
A new paper examines the practical aspects of how we create smarter, more livable communities.
MIT Media Labs Invents Digital Walking Maps
A digital map combines walking speed, time constraints, and information about street patterns to generate maps showing areas within walking distance.
Church V. State
Just pray you're not sued under the RLUIPA statute, say Michael Giaimo and Dwight Merriam in Planning Practice.
Ad Campaign Slams Detroit, Washington As Gas Mileage Hits 22-Year Low
As U.S. gas mileage hits a 22-year low, the heated debate over America's dependence on Middle East oil returns to the airwaves this week with a provocative new ad campaign challenging both Detroit car companies and Washington policy makers.
EPA Abandons Controversial 'Senior Death Discount'
Bush administration policy that proposed using a lower value for a person over 70 compared to a younger person in regulation calculations has been dropped.
Developers Who Make A Difference
Developers build cities. But they are frequently accused of building cities we do not want to inhabit. Smart City interviews two distinguished developers.
Eminent Domain Widely Abused
A report claims that 10,000 properties have been seized by cities for private developers.
The French Connection: Creating A Wireless City
Paris launches a massive project to create a seamless wireless network and provide Internet connectivity across the city.
Book Review: Mega-Projects
Brookings Reviews a new book, Mega Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment.
'Place And Placelessness' In North America
Two Canadian firms win the Young Architects competition conducted by the influential Architectural League of New York.
Art As Architecture: Naples' 'Folly'
Naples hires Anish Kapoor, one of the world's greatest sculptors, to design a subway station.
The Future Of High-tech Housing
Popular Science Magazine features a Swedish housing complex that is ecologically sound and wired.
The 'Most Interesting Building Type'
Celebrity architect Rafael Viñoly, whose design team was runner-up in the WTC competition, takes on a new project which he says is the "most interesting building type today."
Assessing The Potential Of Walkable Communities
Few mixed-use communities nationwide are close enough to each other to reduce the need to drive between them.
Report: Housing Crisis In The U.S.
None of America's traditional middle class workers would qualify to purchase a median priced home based on median income according to a report by the National Housing Conference.
GAO Finds Congestion Pricing Works
The General Accounting Office concludes that congestion pricing could work in the U.S.
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
